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Purchasing one of these from a coffee house isn't recommended as you cannot prepare the drink to your own taste. Chocolate can be flavored similarly as well. For some ideas for what you can add to your hot cocoa or hot chocolate, see the list to the right. No hot cocoa mix that you can make at home will ever compare to making your hot cocoa mix at home.
You may be able to find several different recipes on the internet. Some are more complex than others some are intended to be mixed with water while others are intended to be mixed with milk and what you choose depends on you. The recipe in the video below is uncomplicated and involves only three ingredients including the milk. Note that the man in the video refers to this as "hot chocolate" but it is, in fact, cocoa.
Thanks, Jeff, for clearing that up. I might be getting close to 60 but I haven't lost all my marbles yet. I do not want the author to feel I'm picking on her because I'm not. I feel maybe there may have been a communication glitch? Although she didn't appear to comment in any way? Maybe in my 57 years of age I just didn't see a reply from her? Surely it's not bad manners! While your recipes are fine, and your information about the practical differences of bar and powder chocolate are correct, your technical information about what chocolate is is completely wrong.
There are only two components in raw chocolate: cocoa solids, and cocoa butter. Cocoa butter is almost pure fat, and has little to no flavor, and is often sold as a beauty product.
All of the flavor is in the solids, and the solids, once the butter is removed, is what is known as cocoa powder. The cocoa powder can then be reconstituted with oil to produce bar chocolate. Cocoa powder is NOT a byproduct of the chocolate making process. If you discard the cocoa powder when you make chocolate, you do not have chocolate. Whether the butter is left in or the powder is reconstituted with the butter depends on the specific manufacturer. Most manufacturers do use the cocoa butter to make the bar chocolate, and not some other oils though they technically could.
The ratio of cocoa, oil, and sugar plus the precise roasting process are how you get the different kinds of chocolate. Also note that cacao beans are roasted, like coffee beans, and so chocolate can have just as diverse a range of roasting flavors as coffee.
Bar chocolate is not used as often in making hot chocolate because the large amount of oil does not mix well. This can be mended with an emulsifier or by blending the drink. I've discovered -- quite recently -- that some of it's much better than other brands. Even the same brand made by different people can make a tremendous difference. You should be able to make it less rich if you put more milk and less cream into the chocolate, but it's still very rich.
When I was growing up, it was the syrup, that doesn't really taste like either cocoa or chocolate to be honest with you. Thanks for this excellent explanation! I've always been aware of three kinds of hot chocolate - syrup-based yuk , powder-based and melted chocolate, but I hadn't thought about naming distinctions.
I grew up with the powder stuff. Perhaps because of that, I find 'real' hot chocolate too rich - as you say, it's like drinking a bar of chocolate and I find I can't manage more than a few sips. Thank you, Ron! You should definitely try Hot Chocolate. It's so different.
For me the first time was like drinking a chocolate bar. I not only never knew the difference between hot cocoa and hot chocolate, I never knew there was a difference. And I've just realized that I've probably never tasted hot chocolate.
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