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This is bugging me, and I have no idea if IABU, so please help.

I bought a tin of Asda Drinking Chocolate, the kind that you mix with hot milk.
The tin contains cocoa powder mixed with clearly visible grains of sugar.#

AIBU to think this is not 'drinking chocolate' and I could have got the same result by making traditional cocoa? Other brands combine the sugar and cocoa powder into a seamless sweet fine powder that can be eaten by the spoonful don't they?

It tastes fine btw.

I think you're right. I've never seen granular sugar in, before. That would be annoying, but it probably tastes the same.

I wonder what the price is for cocoa and sugar sold separately are?

Put in blender. Blend. Don't take the top off until the powder has settled. It will be the same.

I wondered about the price. It's 75% sugar/25% cocoa. It's annoying because I always have cocoa in for baking, and could use that instead.

You know you can make hot chocolate (real) with just milk and chocolate? Heat it slowly and whisk.

I'm sure it's cheaper to do it from sugar and baking cocoa.

It reminds me of those pancake mixes. 'Just add eggs and milk'. So, it's flour, then? At ten times the price.

get some asda hot chocolate that you make with water. make it thick. put a generous sprinkling of tesco sprinkles - the kind that has cinnamon and other stuff in it.
the sum is much greater than the parts.

It is a rip-off.
The so-called drinking chocolate is 49.6p/100g
One part Asda cocoa at 91.2p/100g + three parts Granulated Sugar at 8.8p/100g would cost only 29.4p/100g

I feel a strongly-worded email coming on (I need to get a life lol)

Go, Chippy, Go!

MrsTP - sometimes I make a big jar of Jamies Olivers Ultimate Hot Choc - cocoa, horlicks, grated chocolate, cinnamon, cornflour. That's pretty good and probably cheaper than the drinking chocolate too.

Katy

YABU for not buying Cadbury's drinking chocolate

Off to make a hot chocolate now. Mmmmm

Here is the most fabbest cake ever with apologies for the imperial measurements:

3oz drinking chocolate
5oz sugar
6oz self raising flour
6oz margarine
3 eggs
3 tbsp boiling water.

Beat together. Pour into an 8" round tin, lined. Bake at Gas mark 3 for about an hour. Top with an icing made from 4oz milk chocolate, 1oz butter melted and mixed together with 5tbsp of cream.

Use the drinking chocolate to make a cake and stick to cocoa for hot chocolate drinks.

If I had proper drinking chocolate, i would try the recipe

Right, who wants to compose a disgruntled customer email for me?

I can't believe the Asda drinking chocolate is only 25% chocolate!

Do they not think that the clue is in the name?!

Even with improper drinking chocolate, the cake is really very good. Send your e-mail, but be sure to make the cake too. I think I've had Sainsbury's drinking chocolate before with noticeable sugar grains in it and the cake was still good.

There were granules of sugar in the marks and spencer hot chocolate I bought at Christmas as well. And it's no where near as nice as Cadburys.

It's in the cupboard unused because its so crap, but I might try it out with that recipe! Any cake covered in an icing like that is bound to be yummy!

I watched Jamie O make that ultimate drinking chocolate, and it did look good - apart from the corn flour which made it all thick and gloopy - a consistency that is all wrong for a drink, IMO.

That's chocolate sauce - but it's what the Spaniards drink with churros.

I like the gloopyness, it keeps the marshmallows afloat.

Well - I dare say Jamie won't turn up on my doorstep with a cleaver if I leave the corn flour out - will he?? << worries >>

I like the Asda Drinking Chocolate,

I add even more sugar!

Hate milk though, I make it with just hot water, and Asda and Cadbury's are two of the very few brands that don't have the fecking vile stuff added.