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Posted By Katie On November 27, 2011 2 Comments

Homemade Hot Chocolate & Holiday Decorating

Filed Under: Family Values, Life in North Dakota Tagged With: family, holidays, home, North Dakota, prairie living 2 Comments

This afternoon, in the midst of Christmas decorating chaos at our house I offered my husband a Coke, tea or hot cocoa. He chose hot cocoa. I was out of any powdered mix in the pantry and decided to make the real thing. It’s like no other hot cocoa you’ll ever have. Really it’s Hot Chocolate because I don’t add cocoa. I have adapted this recipe from a recipe from America’s Test Kitchen that my sister-in-law shared with me a few years ago.

Today, hot chocolate was the perfect treat for a pause in our holiday decorating. Miss E said we were “hanging out”. Hanging out with hot chocolate. Miss A missed it as she was still napping.

Hunter, the teenager, dipped a sugar cookie in his hot chocolate while pausing from his holiday jobs which included decorating six outdoor pine trees in lights of his school colors, blue and white. We might keep the lights on all winter for basketball games which kick off this week.

The Hot Chocolate Recipe:
3 1/2 cups skim milk
1 cup cream
4 oz. bittersweet chocolate, chopped
4 oz. semi-sweet (or milk) chocolate, chopped
1 TBSP sugar (add more to taste if you’d like…I’m a sweet kinda girl)
2 tsp. vanilla extract
1/3 cup strong brewed coffee
4 cinnamon sticks

Heat the milk/ cream on stove top over medium heat. As it starts to simmer, remove from heat and add chopped chocolate and stir continuously until melted. Add additional ingredients of sugar, vanilla and coffee. Whisk and put back on stove top heat on low to warm again. Add cinnamon sticks and stir. Serve as prepared or throw in a marshmallow or two to finish.

Homemade hot chocolate and holiday decorating made for a lovely Saturday afternoon for us. Miss E loved it so much she decided she wants a Hot Chocolate, Cookies and Cake birthday party in a couple weeks which sounded rather easy for me to pull off so we agreed to it. I’ll be making this recipe for a 4th birthday party again soon!

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  1. TexWisGirl says

    November 27, 2011 at 2:25 pm

    i love the idea of the outdoor trees decorated in his school/team colors! how cool!

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  2. Farmchick says

    November 27, 2011 at 3:09 pm

    This looks really yummy. How nice that you all have time to “hang out” together. Great family time.

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