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The weather outside is frightful, but my drinks are so delightful

filthy light thief — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 10:28:47 -0800

Recipefilter - It's winter(ish) time in my town, and I love seasonal flavored drinks, but I want to make my own (from scratch would be fun). Please recommend hot cocoa / chocolate recipes, coffee flavorings and the like.

always believe in your soul

mippy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:48:04 -0800

A while ago, Green and Blacks did a hot chocolate version of their Maya Gold. Is there anything with that similar orangey spice taste? I've tried Whittards chili, and it has the heat but less nuanced flavour. Bonus points if I can make it with hot water for a less calorific treat! I'm in the UK, so it has to be available here.

Is espresso hot chocolate impossible?

goo — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 19:26:44 -0800

Chocolate espresso - impossible? I want to make espresso hot chocolate, but after reading up it seems as though it's not doable. At all. Am I right? I want to make hot chocolate using my espresso machine. Initially I searched for insoluble chocolate thinking I could just run it through the machine as I would coffee, but such a thing doesn't seem to exist, and after doing some reading it looks like cacao beans need to be heavily processed before resembling chocolate.

I've read up on home-roasting cacao beans, but apparently that still wouldn't get me what I want as cacao beans are extremely bitter before processing, and need milk proteins and sugar to taste anything like chocolate (which doesn't actually make sense to me, as good dark chocolate doesn't contain any milk proteins, but that's what I read). Could I add milk and sugar after making the espresso to get the same effect?

I'm going to buy some cacao beans and experiment, but thought the hive mind could help as my chemistry and chocolate understandings are pretty basic overall! To summarise;
- will I totally be wasting money and time buying and roasting cacao beans in order to try to make espresso chocolate?
- if I make espresso chocolate, using an espresso machine and some ground, roasted cacao beans, will it be totally disgusting?
- will it be disgusting even if I add milk and sugar afterward? Or should I think about how to add milk and sugar to the ground beans before running it through the espresso machine?

I have an electric bench-top machine and a stovetop mokka pot I can use, if that makes a difference.

Thanks for your help!

Chocolately goodness!

gilsonal — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 14:28:10 -0800

Does anybody know of someplace online I can purchase hot chocolate with extra caffeine in it? Looking online all I can find are a bunch of posts on how much normal hot chocolate has (not much). I'd like a warm caffeinated pick me up without having to drink coffee or tea.

Dutch hot chocolate

brujita — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:23:48 -0800

Where can I find the best hot chocolate in Amsterdam? The gold standard for me is Cafe Angelina in Paris, which is run by the same family as the erstwhile Rumplemayer's in New York.

Hot Chocolate Recommendations?

cschneid — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 22:21:57 -0800

Can you recommend me a good brand of hot chocolate? I don't drink that much of it, but now that it's starting to get cold here in Colorado, I'd like to be drinking something with more quality than swiss miss...

Also: Do you have any other tips on making it, perhaps even making a mix myself?