This is my recipe for the most delish, tasty hot chocolate ever:
1. Milk, full cream or half, just none of that fat-free stuff because it should be ashamed it even calls itself milk. A cup for each person, I’d suggest two for yourself though. You’ll see why when you're done.
2. Cocoa Powder
3. Unadulterated, brown sugar
4. Cream, real cream, double or plain, please don’t use the stuff that comes out of a spray can. It’s unnatural. And a little creepy
5. Honey, hmmm.
Directions: what you’re going to need to do is fill a saucepan up with milk-however much you need. Then add a semi-level tablespoon of cocoa for each cup and add a lovely heaped tablespoon of sugar per person (yes that means per cup bright spark). Whisk the milky concoction with a whisk (duh), until the cocoa and sugar is mixed nicely.
Ah, in a bowl, whip the cream until soft peaks poke up their creamy, glossy little heads. Don’t ask me how much cream, make enough for your heart's content. There you go just whip, it, whip it good… Then add dollops of honey. This is to contribute to the cream and make it slightly sweet and seductively honey flavoured! It’s a grand idea to taste, some like it sickeningly sweet, others, subtle.
Turn your attention back to the pot, making sure the milk is NOT boiling, but has clearly left the realm of dairy and is prancing about the world of hot chocolatey delight (hot being the operative word), remove from the heat and pour (I ladle with a soup spoon as I like to do most things the hard way, I’m hard-core like that).
Add cream to the top and gulp down like it’s the last thing you’ll ever do, because if you suffer from cholesterol or weight issues, it may very well be.
P.S Marshmallows are for babies Xxx
