Hot Cocoa Ala Peppin

This is hot cocoa, rich, steamy, delicious and just right for sitting in front of the Christmas tree with loved ones and friends.

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Course Drinks

Cuisine American

Ingredients

Cocoa

2 cups Whole Milk
2 cups ½ & ½
4 ounces Sweet baking chocolate, broken into smaller pieces
½ cup Honey
½ cup Cocoa powder
1½ tsp Pure Vanilla extract
2 tsp Ground Cinnamon

Serving

1 ounce Good quality Rum per mug

Instructions

Cocoa

Place the milk, ½ & ½, sweet baking chocolate, honey, cocoa powder, vanilla and cinnamon in a large enough sauce pan.
Place over medium low heat. Heat until steaming, but don't let it boil.
The sweet chocolate will melt. Whish the mixture continuously and well.
When all the ingredients appear to have mixed, using a wand mixer, mix the cocoa well.

Serving

Pour the hot cocoa into mugs and add 1 ounce of rum.
Add a spoon or long cinnamon stick.

Notes

A dish is always as good as its ingredients. Poor rum will ruin, in my opinion, this cocoa. So if you are going to use rum, use a good quality rum. Bacardi makes a higher end rum, about 40$ a bottle, that serves well. Regular Bacardi rum, Captain Morgans, etc .. I would not use. Neither would I use very high end rum, unless you can afford it. Ron Zacapa aged rum is delicious, but for hot cocoa, I would stick to a less expensive good rum.

Keyword Cocoa, Drinks

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