‘Tis the season hohoho to drink hot cocoa.
Here is my simple recipe for homemade instant cocoa mix. I usually make a batch about now for the cold winter months ahead.
This recipe beat Swiss Miss, Nestles, Prozac, and placebo in a double blind taste test trial at Yale University. The results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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1 cup sugar
½ cup unsweetened cocoa – use a good quality cocoa
2 cups nonfat powdered milk
¾ cup powdered non-dairy creamer
¼ teaspoon salt
Mix all the ingredients in a bowl and place in a storage container.
For hot cocoa – Place a rounded ¼ cup of mix into a mug. Add enough boiling hot water to dissolve the mix. Then fill up the mug with boiling water.
Ta da !
14 comments
December 4, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Jason
This recipe came just in time. We’re expecting are first snowfall tonight.
Thanks.
December 5, 2007 at 3:52 AM
foxystone
I always have a cup of coco at work. It keeps me from devouring all the other chocolate goodies there.
December 5, 2007 at 5:57 AM
BID
I was wishing for just such a recipe. I am making a kitchen themed goodie basket and I wanted to include a home made cookie mix and maybe even cocoa. Now I have a great recipe! Yeah! Thank you Spo!
December 5, 2007 at 6:00 AM
tigeryogiji
Sounds divine! 🙂
December 5, 2007 at 7:58 AM
Kalvin
It’s strange how I find myself still wondering about so much. What kind of sugar do you use? What kind of salt? What kind of cocoa? How big are your mugs? I like the name a great deal.
Urspo – normally i use whatever sugar is on sale
for daily use, i have a special sea salt from brittany, scraped out of the sea by 3rd generation salt merchants, obtained at http://www.zingermans.com. for this recipe i use Morton’s.
I try to use the cocoa from SanFransicso, it begins with a “G” and sounds like Gulianni but isn’t.
My mug size? bigger than the average man’s.
December 5, 2007 at 8:40 AM
Doug
Gonna try this tonight!
December 5, 2007 at 10:37 AM
Greg
What about the marshmallows?!
Urspo – I’ve not tried marshmallows as my batches sit for some time and i wonder if the marshmallows would harden.
why not give it a try and tell me?
December 5, 2007 at 11:46 AM
Tony
I love me some good hot chocolate, but with summer being here it just doesn’t seem appropriate. then again I guess it would be no different than people drinking coffee. There is an alternate here and that is an iced chocolate which has chocolate syrup in the bottom of an ice cream float glass, then two scoops of vanilla ice cream, fill with either white or chocolate milk, top with whipped cream and a sprinkle of cocoa. It works for me…
December 5, 2007 at 4:08 PM
merrimerri
Ok that sounds DIVINE!
I love that it was published in the New England Journal of Medicine..wow!
Good medicine from the Doc!
Have you ever tried Cocoa made with soy milk(sacrilege I know, but IT is yummy too..)
OMG, Tony’s iced chocolate sounds quite acceptable too!
Urspo – i sure have but i don’t know of any powdered soy milk that would replace the powdered milk.
December 5, 2007 at 4:52 PM
citywoof
Grrr…sounds good. I will be trying it! Did you ever make my soup?
December 5, 2007 at 6:27 PM
rcwbiologist
Just in time for our colder weather. I’ll be trying this soon. Thanks
December 6, 2007 at 5:05 PM
merrimerri
You know soy milk powder apparently has to be refrigerated; so yes it just wouldn’t work..
that’s ok!
December 14, 2007 at 10:29 PM
Pink
oh yum yum. i could use some liquid prozac made of cocoa!
xx
pinks
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