How do you make hot chocolate?

I mix cocoa with hot chocolate in a jar, I fing the instant hot chocolate alone is too sweet, I heat the milk in the microwave and add my mix, lovely

Does anyone make the Mexican style hot chocolate?
The water based one?
If so, do you use the discs - and where do you find them please?

Also interested in the version from the Phillipines...

Though I love chocolate, I don’t like any sweet drinks, so have cocoa without sugar. Making it with real chocolate sounds tempting, but more calories than my cocoa. I’ve been known to dip a piece of chocolate into my cup of black coffee though.

I used to buy a tin of 'Spanish Style Hot Chocolate' from M & S - the tin was a beautiful work of art! If I remember correctly you mixed it with hot milk and it was super thick and rich, more like a chocolate sauce really, lovely for a treat but far too many calories for an everyday drink. I did achieve almost the same results with cocoa powder, brown sugar and cornflour to thicken it.

Micro mug of milk for 2m15s. Stir in heaped teasp of chocolate powder. Mine is from Aldi. Bliss.

I boil milk and add real galaxy chocolate and cocoa powder I don't bother with the shop bought mix, I serve with squirty cream and marshmallow.

The best way for me is to use old fashioned cocoa with a little sugar in hot milk .
And froth it up afterwards - like
NotSpaghetti .

Use a good block of confectioner's chocolate, break it into small pieces and place these in a ovenproof dish. Stand the dish in a saucepan of boiling water and stir the chocolate until it is completely melted. Make sure no water gets into the chocolate.

Bring full cream milk to the boil and whip it into the molten chocolate a little at a time.

This is hot chocolate and should be served with a good dollop of whipped cream.

Anything made with powdered chocolate is just a hot chocolate flavoured drink and not worth drinking.

Cocoa on the other hand is quicker than hot chocolate to make and as long as you use the best quality Dutch or Belgian cocao will taste fine, and full fat milk, of course, plus as much cocoa and sugar as you like. some like cocoa stronger than others.

Six squares of Cadbury Bournville per mug. Heat water in microwave (careful!) so it's hotter than boiling (superheated). Then, pour over chocolate, and stir. Do not drink it immediately, because it will be scalding hot. If you like, you can add milk, or stir it with a cinnamon stick instead of a teaspoon. It's the way my nan made it, and she stirred it on the stove till the chocolate melted, since she there were no microwaves. None of the newfangled Ciobar stuff.

I make 'hot chocolate' with cocoa sweetened with a little honey melted in a little hot water with two squares of 70 or 85 percent dark chocolate and top with hot frothed milk - absolutely divine!

I can't stand any of the powdered stuff, it makes me heave to even see someone else drinking it
I wouldn't go that far, but if anyone has't tried the grated chocolate (or chocolate flakes) from HC or Pendragon (and others) there is no comparison between that and chocolate powder. Some will prefer one over the other, but they are different tastes, so if you think you don't like hot chocolate, or that it is too sweet, try the flakes - they do them in dark as well as milk.

Heat mugful of milk in jug in microwave.
Put teaspoonful of cocoa powder ( I like Aldi own brand) into mug and mix in scant amount of sugar (1/4 teaspoon or to taste).
Add small amount of hot milk and blend to creamy texture.
Add rest of hot millk... enjoy!

Green and Blacks, hot water, little bit of oat milk and if feeling needy, cream and grated dark chocolate. Perfecto

most of you will think of this as not hot chocolate, i don't like chocolate flavoured anything so mine is, mug of milk in microwave then add sugar and half a teaspoon of hot chocolate, mine is cadbury's and has been sitting in the cupboard for about 7 years......and yes it is still fine to use. i have this to stop me spending hours in the loo as it binds me up.

There's only one right way to make hot chocolate....

Take a mug of steaming hot milk, add copious amounts of your preferred chocolate, leave to stand for approx 1 minute, stir vigorously, then drink when it drops to your preferred temperature

I can't stand any of the powdered stuff, it makes me heave to even see someone else drinking it

Years ago, Whittards did the stocky shaped tubs of their white hot chocolate, creme brulee hot chocolate, some other flavours of course but these 2 were divine. Around £3 a tub when buy On offer, several heaped teaspoons at a time, i think with milk....., Oh my! THEN they changed the tubs to a slender tall type, with less powder for more money and I stopped buying it. Now, I do without, if really really want some, sugar, cocoa powder creamed together whilst nuking milk in microwave or on hob, if making quite a bit then slapped together! (When say alot, our beloved epileptic dog who we lost last year, when she was being treated for clusters, she had extra meds during the night and I would do flasks of hot chocolate if we needed it!)

When I bought my coffee pod machine it came with a milk frother. I use the Starbucks Classic cocoa and add a dash of cream to the milk before whizzing it in the frother.

I recommend using the instant hot chocolate powders, which you are meant to make by adding boiling water. Instead I used hot milk and no water, it's super creamy, and delicious

We make it with the choc powder and a quarter of a mug of boiling water, stir and then add hot milk to fill mug and stir again.

The Dark Spice hot chocolate, I mean. It is great sprinkled on things like banoffee pie or ice cream, too.

Get them direct from Pendragon, PC. They are much cheaper, particularly when delivery is taken into account. I mentioned them upthread as I use their chocolate flakes in the Velvetiser. The Dark Spice one is delicious.

pendragondrinks.co.uk

I have used the hot chocolate stirrers. It is a wooden spoon with a block of chocolate attached. You stir the spoon in hot milk until the chocolate melts.

I only have hot chocolate occasionally so they are quite convenient. You can get different flavours

www.amazon.co.uk/Pendragon-Drinks-Hot-Chocolate-Stirrers/dp/B076FVCX6H?tag=gransnetforum-21

I wish cafés would take the advice given in this thread. I sometimes despair. Some of the worst hot chocolate I've had has been in certain coffee chains. The best in this country was in an Italian café where it was almost as good as the hot chocolate I've had in Italy itself. Oh and there's one in Paris that I remember fondly. I'm sure I could find it again.

I have a velvetiser from Hotel Chocolat. I hardly ever use the chocolate flakes in it though. It does a marvellous job of velvetising Horlicks.

Velvetiser! Just right for one big mug.