Warm To the Bottom of My Toes : )
Ideal Dutch Process Hot Cocoa
There’s nothing as warm and cozy as getting wrapped up in your favorite blanket and curling up with a good book and cup of hot chocolate on a chilly day. It’s very chilly here in Florida right now and I had a “hankering” for a good cup of Hot Chocolate. My favorite secret stash of cocoa powder was tucked in behind the rice and soups in the cupboard. (There was always a tin of Ideal Dutch Process Cocoa powder in mom’s cupboard at home and when I go back home to visit I always pick up a box. It’s made at Wilbur Chocolate Co. in Lititz, PA.)
I use the recipe on the side panel and in under 2 minutes have a steaming cup of hot cocoa. I love to dunk buttered toast in it too. Sometimes I’ll cut the toast into four strips which makes it easier to dunk! Hot Chocolate and Toast is a great comfort food and just makes you feel warm all over.
Hot Chocolate Recipe:
1/4 c. Ideal cocoa
1/4 c. sugar
1 c. water
1/4 tsp. vanilla
3 c. milk
Mix cocoa and sugar thoroughly.
Add water to form paste. Boil
1 min. Add vanilla, then milk
and heat. Do not boil.
I added a dollop of whipped cream and of course served with buttered toast!
Only one thing would make it taste better and that’s if I were drinking it in front of a rip roaring Hickory wood fire crackling in a stacked stone fireplace in my own log cabin in North Carolina! A girl can dream…..
Sounds like a good way to spend these chilly days we’ve been having!
We wanted to go to the Wilbur store when we were up last July but ran out of time. Maybe we’ll make it there when we go up this year.
You forgot about the marshmallows or the Fluff!!!