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Hot, hot chocolate

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Hot chocolate? How boring some might say. How utterly conventional. Well yes, and then again, a very big no. What you do in this life and how you do it are two entirely different things.

Right, this is the promised recipe for hot chocolate with both style and alcohol. Before we begin, a question. Do you own a Cafetiere? A French press style coffee maker. One of those gadgets you can brew coffee in that has a grid and mesh style plunger? If you don’t have one lurking in the back of your kitchen cupboard, read no further. This recipe is not for you. I’ve tried it with frothers, steam and without froth, and believe me a cafetiere is an essential piece of kit. Nothing else gives quite the same result.

You will need;

  • A cafetiere
  • 200ml full cream milk
  • Hot chocolate powder two to three teaspoons should do
  • A measure of Jameson’s whiskey (Or any other blend. Not a single malt – what are you. a heathen?)

Method:

Heat milk in microwave, in a pan over the stove, over a camp fire, whatever, just heat your milk until it’s lightly boiling and frothing. Decant hot milk into cafetiere jug. Stir in chocolate powder. Add whiskey. Insert plunger and vigorously pump through mixture a couple of dozen times to produce a warm dense foam.

Now pour into drinking vessel of choice. Large mug with humorous motto, skull of your worst enemy, anything like that.

Enjoy, sipping gently, feeling the luxury of hot chocolate seducing your palate and the bite of whiskey in the throat.

Now tell me hot chocolate is boring and conventional.

Update; having just spent a couple of days stooging around Dubberlin, I was struck by the increase in hot chocolate emporiums. So by way of experiment I sampled their wares. Overall they were okay, but all had way, way too much sugar in the mix. At home I use a supermarket own brand powder which is nowhere near as sweet, but when prepared by the above method produces a rich and warming, very flavoursome drink (Nicer with a shot of whiskey of course) which I much prefer to that provided in Butlers, Bewleys, Cadbury’s, Starbucks or any of the other places serving this beverage and variants thereof.

2 thoughts on “Hot, hot chocolate”

  1. Sounds good…200ml full cream milk (is there any other sort?) 200ml whisky…hmm…seems OK so far…
    (Goes out and buys cafetière.)

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    1. By a ‘measure of whiskey’ I mean the Irish standard of 35.5ml, although my home measure is more like 60ml (A UK double).

      Then you’ll be ready to drink it from the skull of a defeated enemy.

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