naice hot chocolate

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Went to Sainsburys to get last of the provisions and went to get the 'proper' hot chocolate, with curls of real chocolate and everything, and it wasn't there. I realise that I could probably grate some and get the same effect, but time is short so has anyone seen any around? I can get to M+S, Waitrose, Hotel Chocolat, any of the big supermarkets or Thorntons, but not all in the same place so want to focus my searching and ideally near somewhere I can find a present for my impossible mother . Too late now for online as we are off once the dc are out of school.

Hotel Chocolat definitely have some.

Make your own, heat some milk, double cream and dark chocolate gently in a pan :-)

Brilliant thanks Elf I can't make my own as not in our house on Christmas Eve. Parents would think I'd gone mad and try to persuade me to use DF's Options, a poor relation to Hot Chocolate at the best of times.

spanish thick chocolate is my favourite

Charbonnel & Walker hot chocolate is amazing.

In M&S they have a section which showcases items from Italy, Spain, France etc. They have had, and still do I think, a block of chocolate for precisely this purpose. It is wrapped like a mini brick. The wrapping is fairly vintage in look, beige with darker writing. Itis called 'Hasslacher's Hot Drinking Chocolate', and comes from Colombia. It is lovely. .

Definately had it in my thortons!

LOVE proper hot chocolate.

Charbonnel + Walker was I think the one I was thinking of, and they usually have it in our Sainsburys, but there wasn't even a shelf label. Thorntons is near HC so will check there too. It really does need to be ready to use though as we have a 2hr journey plus various meals, mass 15 miles away etc. So maybe naice but not too naice! Cadbury's is our everyday benchmark.

....my sons love Options - though youngest (11) keeps getting muddled up and calls it "Choosers"

Oh gosh my 'posh hot chocolate' for christmas day now seems crappy.

It was just gonna be some cadbury's drinking chocolate, some whipped cream, some marshmellows and some baileys. Suppose I could add double cream to it!

Now I need chocolate curls. How would one go about making chocllate curls?

Maybe I should try this tonight...

Bertrude, is the baileys for the kids? Was wondering how to get them to sleep. they were fine when they were little but now at 11 & 12 it is getting harder each year - It was after 1 last year and then they got up at 5!!! when they were younger they'd be sound asleep by 8 and not up until about 8ish - bliss!

P>S chocolate curls - the proper way is to melt some chocolate spread it out on a cold hard surface - usually marble and the scape the chocolate with the side of a knife - or you can buy them - yours sounds fine as it is though :)

....there was supposed to be a comma after "melt some chocolate" - don't use chocolate spread!!

I think the OP's chocolate curls are grated chocolate, ie the drinking chocolate isn't a mixture of cocoa powder and sugar but is flakes of grated chocolate.

I really like the Green & Black hot chocolate, made with milk. Unfortunately, now that I've become accustomed to it, most other brands taste rubbish.

Sorted it, happend to be going past our local naice coffee shop and they had their own blend of Belgium dark and milk chocolate, along with a helpful staff member advising on how to make a perfect hc. Won't be quite as good as theirs as it won't have melted chocolate all over inside of glass and it won't be someone else making it it! I also got some chocolate discs to put on top, sadly I got plain and the children like milk, guess they'll have to make do with marshmallows. Too much chocolate can't be good for them! Baileys sounds great too, but my parents house is dry :(

Have resolved to wean my dc off Cadburys in the new year as it is too pricey and wasted on them or maybe wean them off their H/C addiction, yes looking at you ds. Thanks for all the tips.

Don't whatever you do, decide to make Jamie olivers hot choc. Dcs convinced me to make it and its shit. Basically just cornflour to thicken your mixture which he thinks makes it luxurious. It doesn't, its gross and the remainder of the jar now mocks me from the cupboard every time I open it as I can't bring myself to bin it having put so much effort into it.
The caramel hotel chocolat one is the drink of the gods though!

Sacrilege, why on earth would one add cornflour? Add some oats and glitter and tell your dc it is reindeer food. No good can come of chocolate and cornflour, unless you could somehow make some biscuits.

It's to thicken it I guess, but all it does it turn if sort of floppy and, well, floury.
You could hide your nice stuff in my cupboard if you like?