Recipe for a Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix with a touch of coffee and cinnamon |Â Forget the readymade sachets of Mocha, this DIY premix is a 5 minute job and you are going to be addicted to it!
Fans switched off..extra tee shirt layer for me and a sweater for the kid…snuggling my feet into fluffy night socks…that’s Bangalore nights for you these days (and early mornings too!)
This morning at 8, the car dashboard read 15°C. Brrrr!
Hey, I’m not complaining, just gloating over my Bombay friends ????
For someone who was born and brought up in a winter-deprived Bombay, without a single sweater in my wardrobe, any winter is welcome. It’s such a comforting feeling to snuggle inside the duvet and making sure not even a finger is exposed to the chill in the room. I can feel the Delhi readers and others from the colder climes scoffing at me here, but trust me, for someone from Bombay, even this degree of winter is a lot to get excited about!
After putting the kid to bed, I like to make myself a big mug of hot chocolate and catch up on the reading from all my bookmarked sites. But many a times, at the end of a tiring day, I am plain lazy to even mix up the ingredients for a hot chocolate in my mug.
When I spotted sachets of Choco Mocha, Hot chocolate etc in my neighbourhood supermarket in the other day, I picked up one for such bedtime cravings. The ingredients on the pack were dead simple, and of course, being a commercially sold product, the first ingredient was sugar and cocoa was listed as 1%.
This inspired me to make a bottle of this homemade hot chocolate mix (or call it cafe mocha or hot chocolate mocha or anything else you please)- so whenever the desire strikes, just add hot water, stir and it’s ready – a steaming hot mug of chocolate and coffee, with hints of cinnamon, and hey, we have well over 1% cocoa here! Where chocolate is concerned, more is less, always.
The best hot chocolate mix I have tried is the one from Vosges that the husband had got me from one of his NYC trips – and this was the Aztec Elixir – with added chili to it and it was divine! In fact, we had a pact that we will have it only when both are at home, so one doesn’t finish off the good stuff on their own.
Coming back to this homemade hot chocolate mix, it uses regular ingredients from your kitchen. All you need to do is measure out, mix, put into a nice glass jar, label it and you’re all set to face hot chocolate cravings. You do have to heat a mug of water though! And that one thing can be done by your kids using a microwave.
Jazz up your cup of hot chocolate
You can spike it with your liquor of choice, a sprinkle of chilli powder or nutmeg, or a toasted marshmallow
These also make the perfect edible gifts. Wrap up a pretty ribbon around the bottle and add instructions on the label. I can’t think of anyone who wont be excited to receive this, especially in winters
Also check: Homemade face and body scrubs for winter with basic kitchen ingredients
Difference between milk powder, evaporated milk and condensed milk:Â
You may wonder, as I have in the past, if there is a difference between milk powder, dried milk, evaporated milk and condensed milk.
Milk powder and dried milk are essentially the same thing.
Evaporated milk is actually liquid in consistency, thicker than regular milk.
According to Wiki, “It is fresh homogenised milk from which 60% of the water has been removed. The process involves the evaporation of about half the water from the milk, after which the product is homogenized, canned, and sterilized”.
Condensed milk also has 60% water removed but has added sugar, while evaporated milk does not have sugar. Sugar prevents the growth of microorganisms in condensed milk which is why it has a long shelf life.
DIY Homemade Hot Chocolate mix yields over 2 cups of mix, enough for 16 cups of Chocolate Mocha or Mochaccino
Shop all the ingredients for the Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
- Milk powder (this 200 gram pouch works perfect for this recipe)
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Cinnamon powder
- Instant Coffee
- Organic brown sugar
Homemade Hot Chocolate Mix
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups milk powder Nestle
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder unsweetened
- 3 tbsps instant coffee powder
- 1 tbsp cinnamon
- 1 1/4 cup brown sugar optional
Instructions
- To prepare the homemade hot chocolate mix, you'll need a large mixing bowl, measuring cups, a whisk or fork and a bottle with a lid. Ensure everything is thoroughly clean and dry.
- If using granulated brown sugar, grind it to a coarse powder in the mixer jar. You can also choose to leave out the sugar, so that each cup can be sweetened as per taste - or if someone wants to add a sugar substitute, they can do so.
- In the mixing bowl, measure out all the ingredients. With your (dry) finger tips gently break any lumps and mix well and then do the final mixing with a whisk or a fork.
- To make a mug of chocolate mocha using this hot chocolate premix, add 2 heaped tablespoons of the mix in a mug. Add a cup of boiling hot water to the mug with constant stirring until the mix is dissolved. You can also make this with milk or half and half (half milk-half cream) for a more decadent drink.
Notes
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Lovely recipe Nandita…Will surely try it out.. But what if I would like to leave out the milk powder and wanted to use fresh milk.. How much milk do you suggest I use? Also if you ve tried them out, would you recommend Ghirardelli over Hershey’s? Thanks.. 🙂
This is an awesome idea! Definitely going to try it 🙂
Great recipe Nandita. (Y).
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Saw this on Instagram and looked up the recipe… 🙂 can you share which milk powder you have used ?