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In the newest issue of Real Simple, the magazine's taste-testers turned their taste buds to hot chocolate mixes. They compared over 40 varieties of hot cocoas and hot chocolates. Hot chocolates typically have real pieces of chocolate in addition to cocoa powder in them, while hot cocoas are sweetened cocoa. They broke the competitors down into categories by price and picked their winners.
In the under $5 category, the milk chocolaty Land o'Lakes Classics Supreme was the top choice, followed by Swiss Miss Chocolate Sensation, both of which you should be able to find at your local supermarket. In the $10-15 dollar range, Godiva's Dark Chocolate Truffle ranked supreme, followed by the dark and intense Schokinag Extreme Dark. For the bigger spenders, Jacques Torres Wicked, a spicy mixture with chocolate, ancho and chipotle peppers, ranked highest in the over $15 category, followed by Mariebelle Aztec.
Now, if only they'd have a marshmallow testing.
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12-24-2005 @3:34PM Fazal Majid said... One thing I don't understand - why not just use regular chocolate bars where you know the quality of the chocolate used? Trader Joes sells Chocovic's excellent Venezuelan Ocumare criollo chocolate for under $2, you can just shave them and melt them with a little milk at half power in the microwave.
When I was a kid growing up in France, a company named Calor used to advertis an appliance that would melt chocolate bars and mix them with milk to make real hot chocolate, but I haven't seen anything like that since, only cocoa mix frothers that don't look like they generate enough heat to melt chocolate.
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12-24-2005 @4:08PM cybele said... Any hot chocolate that starts with powdered milk is doomed. Doomed, I tell you!
The best hot chocolate (even using otherwise standard ingredients) must contain milk. Powdered milk and those "coffee whiteners" need not apply.
Most of the time I use Wilbur dutch process cocoa powder, a little sugar, some cinnamon and nutmeg in a pan with some milk. If it's just one serving I'll do it in the microwave. Sometimes I get a gift of Ghiradelli's hot cocoa mix that has chocolate and cocoa in it and you add it to hot milk. It's a little sweet, but an additional dash of cocoa evens it out.
Unfortunately it's 83 degrees right now and way too hot for hot chocolate in Los Angeles. Unless I turn on the AC ... hmmmm.
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1-17-2006 @11:01PM yelena said... it may be too hot in l but it is freezing in ny!
yay for me!
hot chocolate here i come
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