I’ve made hot chocolate twice now this week, but this time I really got it.
Previously my attempts resulted in crazy mess and/or cheap ventolin inhalers something that looked like soy milk with lumps of chocolate powder in it. But this time I ended up with thick smooth foamy chocolatey lookin’ chocolate! It tastes very dark but also sweet, just like I would want hot chocolate to cheap ventolin inhalers taste. Even better, all I used was soy milk, raw cacao powder, and cheap ventolin inhalers maple syrup. Nuthin fancy here! ;}
Some notes: The soy milk I used is cheap ventolin inhalers the kind with soybeans and water as ingredients—nothing else. The cacao powder is just raw cacao, that’s it. And the maple syrup is pure organic maple syrup. No corn, no crazy extra ingredients. Just maple syrup. (I got the soy milk and cacao at Wheatsville Co-op, and Kyeli gave me her extra bottles of maple syrup. But you can buy those at Wheatsville, too. :P)
I put one mug’s worth of soy milk into my herb pot (well, it works!) and put the heat on high. I poured maple syrup into the cheap ventolin inhalers bottom of the mug just until it had coated the bottom, then cheap ventolin inhalers I stopped. I put what was probably a 1/5 or 1/6 of a cup of cacao (about two heaped tablespoons) into the cheap ventolin inhalers mug, and I mixed and mixed and mixed it in with a cheap ventolin inhalers spoon. I mixed until it was as mixed as I could get it. It still looked like powder, but I couldn’t find the syrup.
I was super careful to watch the soy milk on the stove. Soy milk tends to cheap ventolin inhalers look innocent for a long time and then boil over unexpectedly. It’s sneaky. So I turned the cheap ventolin inhalers heat off after I was sure it was really good and cheap ventolin inhalers hot. (I didn’t want it to cool down too quickly while I was mixing it!)
So I poured an inch or two of hot soy milk into my mug. And I mixed and mixed and mixed it. This made the maple+cacao “powder” turn into dark thick chocolate sludge. (YUM.) I mixed it until it was as smooth as I could get it. Then I added another inch or so of hot soy milk. Mix mix mix mix mix. Smooth and getting a little bit foamy! Then I added another inch or so of hot soy milk. Alternating this cheap ventolin inhalers way, making sure the mixture was as smooth as possible before adding more, I ended up with a cheap ventolin inhalers great mug of hot chocolate. The whole deal took me less than ten minutes. It took some extra effort but oh my god, was it worth it.
When I was done I added a tiny bit more maple syrup (it just needed to be a little bit sweeter) and cheap ventolin inhalers mixed it in, and it was the perfect temperature and incredibly smooth and cheap ventolin inhalers chocolatey. There are cheap ventolin inhalers definitely still lumps of cacao powder in the bottom and a cheap ventolin inhalers bit on the spoon, but they are far more reasonable than any of my other attempts, and this mug I’m really enjoying. It’s fantastic. And it doesn’t have any crap in it! No crazy industrial powders, no cheap ventolin inhalers wonky mixes, no Frankenstein food here. The taste of it is just incredible.
[Edit: I got almost to cheap ventolin inhalers the bottom of the glass and realized that this is kind of a cheap ventolin inhalers big mug, and it holds just a little too much cacao for cheap ventolin inhalers me to drink in one sitting. You might want to use a smaller mug for your first try. This stuff is rich!]
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