[CH] hot chocolate recipe
Yvonne (lemur@pobox.com)
Mon, 04 Mar 2002 18:27:19 -0600
[de-lurking]
I was glancing over the chocolate discussion in the latest digest, and
remembered a hot hot chocolate recipe I got last fall. The local dine-in
movie theatre had a movie series, with meals to match the movies. For
those of you who saw Chocolat, they had the hot chocolate with chile
powder, and I emailed them for the recipe. I'll paraphrase it here.
The recipe is a standard European hot chocolate recipe involving
chocolate, cream and milk. The original recipe calls for a lot of
double boilers and stirring and is very difficult. Instead, an espresso
machine was used: steam the cream and milk, pour it
over the chocolate pieces, then steam the whole thing until it is
thoroughly mixed.
The recipe is simple; get some high quality semi-sweet chocolate chips
(use Ghirardelli or better), melt them (this is where all the double
boilers and being very careful comes in if you don't have an espresso
steamer) Mix with an equal volume of hot cream and about 1/4 volume of
hot milk and stir everything together on a medium heat water bath. If
you like the drink thicker, add less milk and cream,
or more if you want it to be more liquid. Sprinkle ancho chile powder on
top.
I haven't tried it at home yet, but it was quite delicious.
Yvonne
[going back to lurking mode]
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