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If it's cold out, and someone needs a gift, and that someone likes chocolate, it would seem you can't go wrong by giving them a hot chocolate mix. Except that there are dozens of them on the market. Recently, the folks over at Business Week Online caught a break when they got to do this tasting of a several high end hot chocolate mixes. The MarieBelle Aztec Original (pictured here), made from single origin 63 percent Venezuelan cocoa, won the highest marks from their tasters. A 10 oz tin, which yields roughly eight servings, sells for $17. The Business Week tasters also liked Jacques Torres' Classic hot chocolate, which sells online for $16 for an 18 oz. tin.
Over at StarChefs.com, Stephanie Zonis did a review of high-end "drinking chocolates," beverages made primarily from chocolate as opposed to powdered mixes. For the most part, Zonis and her tasters dash the dozen-or-so hot chocolates they try. There is, however, a basic recipe to make your own with the chocolate of your choice.
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12-03-2005 @4:18PM Christina said... Someone could really win a girl's heart with those.
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12-03-2005 @9:45PM Bruce Dearborn Walker said... Good grief! That's way too fussy.
Fill a twelve ounce coffee mug with whole milk and heat it in your microwave until it's hot but not scalding. While it's heating, throw a handful of Guittard semi sweet chips (ten pounds for about twelve dollars at sam's club--Guittard is the best American chocolate, according to the Cooking Institute of America) into your good quality blender, and hit high power until the chocolate is the texture of fine sand. When the milk is hot enough to melt the chocolate, dump it in the blender and go. I add a drop of genuine vanilla, a bit of salt(absolutely), a tbsp of sweetened condensed milk for sweetness and richness and a shot of ouzo or raki (but not sambuca or anisette--too sweet).
Serves me and my wife, with a little left over. Licorice has the same level of flavor enhancement as vanilla or salt. You won't taste the ouzo much, but it makes a big difference. I also use a bit in ice cream, and chili, and on pork, or beef, and...
Time from start to finish? Three minutes.
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