Hot chocolate
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- Prepare
- less than 30 mins
- Cook
- less than 10 mins
- Serve
- Serves 4
The Hairy Bikers show you how to make a creamy cup of hot chocolate, perfect for a cold winter’s day. With a vanilla pod and cinnamon stick, it's a deluxe version, but you can make it with vanilla extract and a pinch of ground cinnamon instead.
Ingredients
- vanilla pod: 1 vanilla pod, split and seeds scraped out (or ½ tsp vanilla extract)
- cinnamon: 1 cinnamon stick
- milk: 1 litre/1¾ pints milk
- dark chocolate: 150²µ/5½´Ç³ú dark chocolate, chopped into small pieces
- sugar: sugar, to taste
- nutmeg: freshly grated nutmeg, for dusting
Method
Heat the vanilla pod and seeds, cinnamon stick and milk in a saucepan until boiling.
Remove the pan from the heat and add the chocolate pieces, stirring until the chocolate melts.
Whisk the hot chocolate vigorously until frothy on top and add sugar, to taste. Serve with a dusting of nutmeg.
