‘Tis the season for hot cocoa! Another Michigan winter is underway, and it’s a guarantee that we’re in for some blustery, chilly days.
We all have fond memories of coming inside after a full day of building snowmen and challenging friends to snowball fights, to dethaw over a class of piping hot cocoa. And it’s hard to beat the classic recipe, homemade or instant, but us RVers are the adventurous type, taking the road less traveled; and the same should go for our cocoa. This winter, mix it up a bit and take a new hot cocoa for a test drive!
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Salted Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate
Recipe courteous of One Ordinary Day
Ingredients:
1/4 cup sugar
1/4 cup cocoa
1/4 cup water
3 cups milk
3-4 Tbsp. creamy peanut butter
1/2 c. bittersweet or semisweet chocolate chips or 3 oz. finely chopped chocolate
Directions:
In a saucepan, add sugar and cocoa and whisk in the water until smooth, then whisk in the milk over medium-high heat. Heat until steaming, not boiling. Remove pan from heat and add peanut butter and chocolate chips. Let sit for a few seconds, and then whisk until frothy. Finish with a touch of sea salt and some toasted marshmallows.
Vanilla Bean White Hot Chocolate
Recipe courteous of Salt Tree
Ingredients:
2 c. of milk or cream
2-3 oz. white chocolate or white chocolate chips
1 vanilla bean pod
whipped cream for topping
Directions:
Split the vanilla bean pod open with the tip of a sharp knife and scrape out the vanilla specks from inside the bean pod with the edge of the knife.
Add all ingredients to a medium saucepan and warm over medium low heat, whisking occasionally until the chocolate has completely melted and it has come to a simmer. Remove from heat, pour into mugs and top with whipped cream.
Black Cherry Bourbon Hot Chocolate
Recipe courteous of Sugar and Soul
Ingredients:
1 ½ c. milk
5 Tbsp. Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Hot Chocolate Mix
2 oz. Red Stag Black Cherry Bourbon
whipped cream
chocolate shavings
Directions:
In a saucepan, heat milk and hot chocolate mix over medium heat – until steaming, not boiling – and stir frequently. Pour hot chocolate into two mugs and add 1 oz. black cherry bourbon to each. Top with whipped cream.
Gingerbread Hot Cocoa
Recipe courteous of The Hopeless Housewife
Ingredients:
4 c. milk
½ c. cocoa powder
¼ c. brown sugar
¼ c. white sugar
½ tsp. ground cinnamon
½ tsp. allspice
½ tsp. ground ginger
½ tsp. vanilla extract
¼ tsp. sea salt
whipped cream
Instructions:
In a medium saucepan over low heat, heat milk. While warming the milk, combine the cocoa powered, brown sugar, sugar, cinnamon, allspice and ginger in a small bowl. Whisk into the milk until hot. Serve with whipped cream and sprinkle with cinnamon.