Recipes · inspired by Hot Chocolate in the manga Kitchen Princess, volume 9
Rich Hot Chocolate
Real hot chocolate from cocoa, sugar and milk, with a pinch of salt for a deeper flavor. Better than a packet in five minutes.
- Ready in
- 7 min
- Ingredients
- 6
- Makes
- 2 mugs
- Level
- easy
Kitchen Princess is a manga by Natsumi Ando and Miyuki Kobayashi in which every chapter is named after a dish. This is our own quick, family-friendly version of that dish, not the recipe from the book.
Mixing the cocoa into a paste first stops it from clumping. The pinch of salt doesn’t make it salty: it just makes the chocolate taste more chocolatey.
Make it a learning moment: cocoa powder comes from the seeds of the cacao tree, which grow in big pods right on the trunk.
Ingredients
Steps
Kids a child can do this step Grown-up hot, sharp or tricky
- Kids In a small pot, whisk the cocoa, sugar and salt with a splash of the milk to make a smooth paste.
- Kids Whisk in the rest of the milk.
- Grown-up Heat over medium, whisking, until steaming but not boiling, about 4 minutes.
- Grown-up Stir in the vanilla, pour into mugs and add marshmallows.
