For the second day of Italian Meal structure, I have a delicious beverage served for breakfast. You can check my yesterday’s Affogato post to know more about the Italian Meal Structure and recipe for a delicious coffee based dessert from Italy. My daughter loves her coffee as well as chocolate. I can serve her any dish with chocolate in it without any problem. She always finishes it off. After I bought a bag of Callebaut, I was in search of recipes that use chocolate so that I could include those chips. So when searching for beverages, I searched for an Italian chocolate based beverage and got results for hot chocolate. As I already have Easy Hot Chocolate and Argentine Hot Chocolate El Submarino in the blog, I was skeptical. But after I read the recipe, I chose to make it for the theme.
Unlike my easy hot chocolate, this recipe uses chocolate in it. And to make it really thick, corn flour is added to the mixture. You can use either dark chocolate or milk chocolate, but adjust sugar accordingly. Cooking the mixture until it thickens is a must. And hot out of stove, it may look thin but once it starts cooling down, it thickens to a rich sauce like consistency. When you scrape the bottom of the pan, the hot chocolate should leave streaks for a few seconds. You can remove it from flame at that time. I added some whipped cream topping on the hot chocolate, but you can also use marshmallows. As excepted, my daughter loved her glass of Italian Hot Chocolate!
Ingredients:
Milk – 1 cup + 2 tbs
Milk Chocolate – 50 gm
Cocoa Powder – 1 tbs
Sugar – 1 tbs
Corn Flour – 1 tsp
Procedure:
Mix together corn flour, cocoa powder and 2 tbs of milk and set aside.
Bring remaining milk to boil.
Add chocolate and sugar and mix well until it starts boiling.
Reduce flame and add the corn flour cocoa milk mixture to the milk and let it boil until it thickens.
Remove from flame, pour into a serving glass, top with whipped cream, choco chips and serve immediately.
Italian Hot Chocolate Recipe
Ingredients
- cup Milk - 1+ 2 tbs
- Milk Chocolate - 50 gm
- Cocoa Powder - 1 tbs
- Sugar - 1 tbs
- Corn Flour - 1 tsp
Instructions
- Mix together corn flour, cocoa powder and 2 tbs of milk and set aside.
- Bring remaining milk to boil.
- Add chocolate and sugar and mix well until it starts boiling.
- Reduce flame and add the corn flour cocoa milk mixture to the milk and let it boil until it thickens.
- Remove from flame, pour into a serving glass, top with whipped cream, choco chips and serve immediately.
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This feels like a dessert! Must try with my Lindt 90% chocolate… 🙂 There is no dearth of hot chocolate recipes, you can try all the variations and be amazed at how different each of them taste…
This looks so sinful ! I might not be a coffee fan , but seriously I feel like picking that glass right from the screen !
Chocolate and coffee is a great combination. No wonder your kid loved it so much.
Yum Yum, i just had hot chocolate in Starbucks. My kids love this too. Good one
Wow, this is nice , I do need it now. Lovely share for the theme.
OMG such a sinful recipe, Gayathri. My little one will be after me if she sees this recipe. Perfect for kids.
It’s hard to say no to this delicious glass of Italian hot chocolate recipe. Looks irresistible.
Wow.. perfect treat for chocolate lovers like me.