To potentially start WW3 with a hot chocolate thread?

[Firstbornunicorn]

Hello, Mumsnetters. I'm on the lookout for a very chocolately, rich, and indulgent hot chocolate mix.

The Cadbury one in the purple tin just isn't satisfying my craving (pregnant, maybe that's why), and although I do enjoy making it from a bar of chocolate, that feels like lots more calories than a mix would be.

So, give me your recommendations for a really special treat, please :)

So you were disappointed in the cocoa content of your sundae? Was it the ice cream or the sauce they put on it?

The bittersweet baking chips I buy are 60% cocoa and the bars can be had from 60% to 86% cocoa. Those of course are not sweet in the slightest.

Ghiradelli Chocolate Bars

I recently made chocolate syrup for dcs to have on pancakes, which was a boiled mixture of cocoa powder, sugar, fresh vanilla seeds and water. It was a lot nicer than expected (!) and incidentally made lovely hot chocolate when stirred into creamy milk, without any powdery aftertaste. Squirty cream and marshmallows, maybe sprinkle of grated choc and some edible glitter loved by dcs.
My late dad, brought up in wartime when fresh milk was scarce, always continued to use cocoa powder, large spoon of sweetened condensed milk from a tin (now in tubes!) and hot water from the kettle. Delicious. Great for camping too.
I quite like a milky Cadbury’s drinking chocolate for nostalgia, but Horlicks or Ovaltine even better.

Sloanes of London sold in Tesco was the best! Now discontinues- was lumps of choc that you melted in hot milk, delicious 😋

Otherwise Twinings Swiss is the best alternative but not a touch on the above

I discovered Nesquick chocolate milkshake powder swirled into frothed milk makes the best hot chocolate. Not sure why, it's not even a hot chocolate.
You need two tablespoons. It's really good.

Heating milk is a ball ache so we have instant.
Clipper Fair Trade is the best instant.

@VisitorsEntrance I actually don't rate it! Especially as it solidifies in the package 😂

Really. I’ve been buying it for years and never had that happen.

@VisitorsEntrance I wonder why mine does... I'll admit it's probably user error.

Aldi have a salted caramel hot chocolate that is really nice, I think its new :)

@Flowerfae I've heard theirs is fab but Aldi isn't in NI yet!