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You’re Doing Hot Chocolate Wrong
If you’re using a powder, you’re missing out on one of winter’s most indulgent pleasures. These easy recipes will set you straight.
Mission Hot Chocolate.
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Few winter-time pleasures are more basic (in a good way) than a cup of hot cocoa—although if you’re sipping on something that started as a powder, you are missing out. Making hot chocolate from actual chocolate is neither difficult nor ingredient intensive, but the rich, luxurious results will shame every last packet of Swiss Miss sitting in your pantry.
Below are three recipes for at-home, made-from-scratch hot chocolate, two simple and one a bit more complicated for the more ambitious among us. The key for each, though, is to start off with high-quality chocolate. Do that, and you’ll never use a powder again.