To want a good hot chocolate?!

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Help! Need your recommendations for a really good hot chocolate i can make at home. Feeling especially cold & miserable and am always really underwhelmed with usual supermarket offerings (options & highlights etc) I'm going to walk to my village and grab necessities when the baby wakes and would love your suggestions of how you make / what you use for a top hot choc! Xx

Whittards have a brilliant selection and I love hotel chocolat too.

The Spanish one someone linked to from Amazon is good, but v rich.
There is a good taste the difference one at Sainsbury’s but my very favourite (I always ask for a tin for Christmas rather than buy as super expensive) is fortnum and mason

And when you make it always mix a small amount with the hot milk to make a paste before adding the rest of the milk to ensure it is all mixed in

Melt mini marshmallows in with the milk.

I always find my usual brand a bit pallid so this thread is a lifesaver!

Another vote for Hotel Chocolat, the salted caramel one is divine.

Crush up a bag of Maltesers, stir into hot milk. Sorted.

Clipper do a really good hot chocolate. It claims to be velvety, and is!

As my username would suggest I love hot chocolate, and have tried many. My favourite is the Charbonnel and Walker mentioned about. It used to be quite difficult to find, but you can get it in Sainsburys and Waitrose. Make it with milk rather than water. Yummy!

Omg I love this thread. I feel poor now with my Tesco's own brand powder.

And amaretto is lovely in hot chocolate, as is Baileys.

Another one for using just powdered cocoa, milk and sugar - lovely and chocolatey.

Green and blacks is lovely. I treated myself to the Hotel Chocolat one which is also v nice but G&B was 1/3 of the price! Look for one with the first ingredient as cocoa. As an aside, oat milk is good in hot chocolate

Nut milks (almond, hazelnut) also make good hot chocolate...

Willie’s Cacao blocks grated, warm slowly with whole milk, sweeten to taste with soft brown sugar. It’s ridiculous how nice it is.

Another vote for Green & Blacks or if I run out cocoa powder with sugar & milk. Can’t go back to normal hot chocolate anymore.

This recipe from Pierre Hermè via Dorie Greenspan.

www.philly.com/philly/food/restaurants/recipes/34661864.html?mobi=true

Frothing up milk, heating it in the microwave then adding bournville, sugar and I tiny bit of salt has been my favourite for a while.

Bit hard to give instructions to DP other people as I just do it by eye/taste, think I'll make up a jar of it soon so it can just be added to frothed milk.

I do two heaped teaspoons of Cadbury's drinking chocolate, one heaped teaspoon of cocoa powder, full fat milk (because I only ever use full fat milk for anything) Just right for me.

Cocoa powder, made with milk and sweetened to taste in the old fashioned way beats any drinking chocolate hands down. But I’m old and probably too set in my ways.

But I have to admit using the not so traditional microwave rather than a saucepan.

Cacao powder with a very tiny amount of sugar if you want it slightly sweeter. It’s lovely and much better for you - full of antioxidants etc. Can’t stand all the stuff like Cadbury’s etc now since have pure cocoa!

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Honestly, the best hot chocolate is made with real chocolate. You don't even need to fraff with melting on stove. Just poor a mug of milk and stick your chocolate in it (galaxy is my preferance) then microwave for 2-3mins. Stir and job done!

At home, I really like hot chocolate made with Vittoria Chocochino Drinking Chocolate. Yummmmm!