Standard hot chocolate is made with dark chocolate or, very often, cocoa (when it should be called hot cocoa), but white hot chocolate is creamy and sweet and a little bit different. The flavor of this beverage will entirely depend on your choice of white chocolate. Make sure you buy a brand with cocoa butter listed as an ingredient and not alternative fats, such as palm oil or cottonseed oil. The cocoa butter is what gives white chocolate its “chocolate” flavor.
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White Hot Chocolate
Author: Bakepedia
Makes: Makes 4 to 6 servings
Ingredients
- 3 cups milk
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 8 ounces white chocolate, such as El Rey Icoa or Valrhona Ivoire, finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Dutch-processed cocoa (optional)
- Freshly grated nutmeg (optional)
- White chocolate shavings (optional)
- 4 candy canes (optional)
Instructions
- Heat milk and cream to a boil in a medium sized saucepan over medium heat. Remove from heat, stir in chocolate and cover. Let sit 3 to 5 minutes to melt chocolate; add vanilla extract. Whisk vigorously to a froth and to dissolve chocolate completely. Pour into four mugs or bowls (very European) and sprinkle with cocoa, nutmeg or white chocolate shavings. Serve with a candy cane as a stirrer, if desired.
We don’t use term “bowl” to describe mug or cup – so it’s not very European I’m afraid, I don’t know where you get this from but it’s wrong. You don’t drink from bowl 🙂
While in France I have had the wonderful experience of drinking hot chocolate from a bowl in both private homes as well as cafés. I suppose we could call it a handle-less mug, although I would say they were indistinguishable from what Americans would call a cereal bowl. Whatever you call it, we hope you enjoy one our recipes for hot beverages.