Italian hot chocolate

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Years ago when I went to Italy the hot chocolate you can get there in cafes is sooooo nice. And completely different to here. Like proper thick. I haven't been abroad for years but I presume that's not changed?!

I wondered if anyone knows if you can buy it on the internet here? What would it be? If it's possible?

I don't know if you can buy it, sorry. But years ago I was in a small Italian village with a friend and we had the thickest hot chocolate imaginable. If you stood your spoon upright in the middle it fell over very slowly. Delicious 😋

My DM had a really thick hot chocolate in Cavtat, Slovenia this year - it was like drinking melted chocolate, she said! Wish I could recreate it!

If it is anything like Spanish hot chocolate then the secret ingredient is cornflour!!

I make this in the winter, seriously thick! There are recipes on line but it's usually 4 ingredients: hot chocolate powder of choice (or actual chocolate), sugar, milk and cornflour. Its the cornflour that thickens it up

Bloody delicious. Bugger, want some now....

TADA!

www.selfridges.com/GB/en/cat/selfridges-selection-italian-thick-indulgent-hot-chocolate-carton-250g_569-2001083-SSITALIANTHICKHOTCHOCCART/?previewSize=1+Size&cm_mmc=PLA--Google--FOODHALL-_-SELFRIDGESSELECTION&POR=Y&gclid=CjwKCAiAws7uBRAkEiwAMlbZjqjmNSGMhDRe4RrDX_C_qLYrUFadCsQ5EqBJeCahF_72vDgniRkoSBoCkl8QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

You can buy it on amazon . I got some last year after trying it in an Italian coffee shop in Glasgow . It’s in little sachet packs but I can’t remember the brand name sorry !

recipe as well (will save you cash!)

anitalianinmykitchen.com/italian-hot-chocolate/

Just checked my amazon order history and it was Ciobar classic .

It’s really like a thin custard - cornflour is the magic ingredient.

Ciobar! Always bring some back to England with me.

To make hot chocolate at home Italians (at least all my friends/relatives) mix cocoa butter, sugar and cornflour in a pan of warm milk on the hob. The tricky bit is the quantities, I don't put much sugar in when I do it.

Yep, cornflour.
The ingredients of Ciobar are: sugar, low fat cocoa, cornstarch, flavorings and salt, to which you add hot milk. Making a shiny, starchy gloop which Is not actually all that nice...Until you add a generous helping of spray cream.

The PP’s recipe above has added real chocolate which makes all the difference IMO.

Ah thanks everyone

I will make a note of these

This ciobar one is very expensive but maybe it'll worth it

On my Christmas list.

Will have to try making it myself!

@sockittome123 Cavtat is in Croatia, not Slovenia

I meant cocoa powder, not butter . But not hot chocolate powder. You could also melt chocolate squares in with the powder, not the really bitter stuff. Maybe 50% cocoa?

If you have one you can froth it up a bit at the end with a little cappucino wisk, that gets rid of any cornflour gloopyness.