White Hot Chocolate

We’ve all heard of hot chocolate, and we imagine it being a nice, brown, hot drink, possibly topped with marshmellows to drink on a cold day by a roasting fire.

You may not have heard of white hot chocolate – the same idea but a sweeter version, using white chocolate instead. I have made this so you now have an alternative to the well known hot chocolate, and it’s fun and easy to make.

Serves: 4  (I think this could probably serve as much as 6 mugs worth instead)

 Ingredients:  

• 200g (6 1/2 oz) finely chopped white chocolate (more fine than what it is in the picture above)
• 700ml (1pt 5fl oz) milk
• 200ml (7fl oz) single cream
• 1tsp vanilla extract
• Grated lime zest (or use lemon)

This was quite sweet for me, probably because I didnt have single cream and used 100ml double cream instead. At the time I thought that double cream was just twice the fat of single cream!

Anyway, if it does turn out too sweet for your liking, you can always dilute it with milk.

1. Blend milk, cream, white chocolate and vanilla extract in a blender.

If you have a machine which heats and mixes at the same time, use that. If not just blend it all in a normal blender then microwave it.

2. Make it frothy if your machine has a button to do so. At the end of the cycle, serve into individual mugs and sprinkle with the grated lime/lemon zest.

You may find it weird to put zest on top of a sweet drink like this, but I tried it and it works really well together! The white chocolate is sweet while the zest gives it a citrusy twist. A match made in heaven!

The yellow stuff on top is white chocolate. I thought it would look fancy but it made it look weird. Sadly, I didn’t take a picture with zest on top.

I hope this post inspired you to try new hot drinks and to experiment with different ingredients. This was very fun to make and I’m sure you will enjoy it too!