GINGERBREAD HOT CHOCOLATE RECIPE
Spend your winter evenings curled up with your hands wrapped around a warm mug of hot chocolate. Bonus points if that hot chocolate is topped with freshly whipped cream and decorated with gingerbread.
Ingredients:
150ml Milk
50ml double cream
¼ - ½ Tablespoon dark brown sugar
½ orange zested
Pinch of ground ginger
Pinch of ground cinnamon
1 clove
2 drops of vanilla extract
50g dark chocolate, chopped
To garnish
Whipped cream
1 mini gingerbread crushed.
SHOP WHAT YOU'LL NEED
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Step 1:
Stir in the Milk, Brown Sugar, Orange Zest, Ground Ginger, Ground Cinnamon & Clove together in a saucepan.
Step 2:
Bring to a simmer over low heat.
Step 3:
Remove the saucepan from the heat & pour through a sieve into a jug, discarding the Clove & Orange Zest.
Step 4:
Pour the warm infused Milk back into the saucepan & stir in the Vanilla extract & Dark Chocolate until the Chocolate has smoothly melted.
Step 5:
Return the saucepan to low heat to warm your Chocolate drink to your desired temperature.
Step 6:
Pour your hot chocolate into a heatproof mug or our stylish double-walled Latte Glass, perfect for Hot Chocolate! Top up with whipped cream & crushed gingerbread biscuits, if you like, then serve.
Step 7: Top up with whipped cream & crushed gingerbread biscuits, if you like, then serve.
