Hot chocolate with coffee is a drink with an exquisite taste that can be drunk not only in a coffee shop, but also at home. Let's try to cook it at home and please our family. Step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Chocolate notes combined with a tart coffee taste and a soft shade of milk create an amazing harmony, making the drink exciting and unforgettable. The most important product of the drink that warms the soul and heart is chocolate. Of course, you can follow the path of the ancient Maya and make hot chocolate from crushed cocoa beans, but it is much faster and easier to do it from bar dark chocolate. Since the taste and aroma of the drink will depend on the quality of chocolate, choose the best quality chocolate, without fillers and additives such as dyes, preservatives, GMOs … You can use slab dark or milk chocolate, or special culinary chocolate. Whatever ingredient you choose, it should be of the best quality.
Hot chocolate's liquid base is milk, which can be substituted with cream or water. The last option is more light, dietary and with a bland taste. Therefore, such a drink must be thoroughly seasoned with spices. A drink with milk or cream with a more pleasant taste, but also higher in calories. Light and delicate hot chocolate will turn out from a mixture of water and milk. When brewing coffee, you can add cinnamon, vanilla, ginger, cardamom, chili pepper to the drink, and cognac, rum, liqueur into the finished drink. Alcohol and spices infuse hot chocolate with a unique taste.
See also how to make a hot milk chocolate drink.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 148 kcal.
- Servings - 1
- Cooking time - 10 minutes
Ingredients:
- Brewed instant coffee - 1 tsp
- Drinking water - 50 ml
- Dark chocolate - 30 g
- Milk - 50 ml
Step by step preparation of hot chocolate with coffee, recipe with photo:
1. Make coffee. This can be done in any convenient way. In this recipe, it is proposed to do this in a Turk. So put coffee in it. If desired, add spices and spices to the turk to make the aroma and taste of the drink richer.
2. Pour drinking water into the Turk.
3. Place the turkey on the stove and bring to a boil over medium heat. As soon as the water rises up, remove the turk and leave to infuse for 2-3 minutes. If you have a coffee machine, brew coffee in it. You can also simply pour boiling water over the coffee and leave it to infuse under the lid.
4. Put the broken pieces of chocolate into the glass for serving the drink.
5. Pour milk over the chocolate.
6. Put the drink in the microwave and melt the chocolate. Melting chocolate must be very careful and careful, not allowing it to boil. Because if it boils, it will acquire bitterness, which will be impossible to get rid of. Therefore, watch out for the microwave oven or melt the chocolate in the safest way - in a water bath. To do this, put a heat-resistant container with pieces of chocolate in a pot of boiling water, and put the structure on the stove on the smallest fire. When soft, stir in warm milk.
7. Stir the chocolate and milk until smooth.
8. Pour the brewed coffee into the chocolate drink and stir. Now you can add any alcohol you like. Taste hot chocolate with coffee immediately after preparation.
See also a video recipe on how to make hot chocolate with coffee.
