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Malted Hot Chocolate Mix

December 16, 2014

Malted hot chocolate mix is malty and chocolatey and it makes an excellent and easy cup of hot chocolate…no envelopes required!
Malted hot chocolate mix is malty and chocolatey and it makes an excellent and easy cup of hot chocolate...no envelopes required! | recipe from Chattavore.com

This may sound odd, but I have kind of a weird relationship with hot chocolate.

On one hand, I love a delicious mug of hot chocolate. There is little that offers comfort on a cold winter night to someone who absolutely despises cold as much as I do better than the rich combination of chocolate and milk. My mouth is watering just writing about it. I will be having a cup tonight, of that I can assure you.

On the other hand, I find it difficult to find a hot chocolate-whether from a mix or from a recipe-that I just love. We’ve been buying Abuelita for the last couple of years but I’m going to be honest…Land O’Lakes Cocoa Classics is pretty much the gold standard to me for how hot chocolate (or hot cocoa, whatever you want to call it) should taste, particularly the mint and caramel varieties. Thick and richly flavored, not too sweet but not too bitter, this cocoa (ahem, hot chocolate) is a far cry from the packets with the dried out marshmallows (not that there’s anything wrong with dried out marshmallows!) that I grew up drinking.

Malted hot chocolate mix is malty and chocolatey and it makes an excellent and easy cup of hot chocolate...no envelopes required! | recipe from Chattavore.com

But you guys know that I like to make things myself. It’s just easier to keep things like cocoa powder and sugar around than it is to buy endless packages of premade hot chocolate mix. No recipe that I made ever really did it for me, though, whether I made it with straight cocoa powder or melted chocolate bars or chocolate chips or anything else. There was always something missing.

Leave it to America’s Test Kitchen to offer up a solution in the November/December issue of Cook’s Illustrated, and leave it up to Deb Perelman of Smitten Kitchen to make it even better (by changing the unsweetened chocolate to semisweet). Add a little bit of malt powder for a bitter, malty tone and you have a jar of mix that I want to eat with a spoon (but you can leave out the malt if you must) or make to give to ALL of my friends (or maybe keep for myself….). Mix in milk (I am not a fan of powdered dry milk so I’d rather leave it out and mix regular-aka liquid-milk in for a richer flavor and texture) and maybe some homemade marshmallows (recipes coming soon) and you have a perfect mug of hot chocolate!

Malted hot chocolate mix is the best!

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Malted hot chocolate mix is malty and chocolatey and it makes an excellent and easy cup of hot chocolate...no envelopes required! | recipe from Chattavore.com

Mary

Yield: 2 cups of mix

Malted Hot Chocolate Mix

Adapted from Cook's Illustrated (<--affiliate link) and Smitten Kitchen .

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Ingredients

  • 3 ounces semisweet chocolate (I used a dark chocolate candy bar)
  • 1/2 cup cocoa powder (I used Hershey’s Special Dark)
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup malt powder (can be omitted if you don’t like malt-it will make less mix)
  • 1 tablespoon cornstarch
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt

Instructions

  1. Combine all ingredients in a food processor until the chocolate is finely chopped. Transfer to pint or half-pint Mason jars. For gifting, attach a tag with the preparation directions below.
  2. To prepare the hot chocolate, spoon 3 tablespoons of mix into a mug. Heat 1 cup of milk until very warm. Gradually stir the milk into the mix, starting with just a tiny amount to moisten the mix then adding more a little at a time until fully combined. Serve with marshmallows or whipped cream if desired.
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Comments

  1. Judi says

    December 16, 2014 at 7:40 pm

    Looks and sounds Yummy!
    Reply
    • Chattavore says

      December 16, 2014 at 8:00 pm

      I plan on having some yet again tonight, Judi!
      Reply
  2. Mary Jo says

    December 22, 2014 at 6:08 pm

    Thank you. Can't wait to try this. Love malt and never thought of adding it to hot chocolate. Despite the fact I love chocolate, I prefer hot chocolate to be light on the chocolate taste and the malt powder will lighten it up. I also do not like the powdered milk mixes, not near as good as real milk! Many grocers no longer carry any hot chocolate mixes for milk (except Quick). I like Penzey's but it is not cheap.
    Reply
    • Chattavore says

      December 22, 2014 at 6:33 pm

      I feel so strongly about real milk in my hot chocolate that I even use it in the mixes that you're supposed to put water in. I hope you like it! I love malt and had never put it in hot chocolate either. The malt flavor isn't super strong but it definitely adds something.
      Reply

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