Best Drinking Chocolates (Make Them At Home!)
If I had to choose my favorite way to enjoy chocolate, it would hands down be drinking chocolate.
Especially as someone who doesn’t drink coffee, it’s also my go to morning drink. It’ll give you a nice boost of energy that can be the perfect start to a day.
For the thousands of years that chocolate’s been around, it was mostly consumed as a drink. It’s only in the last few hundred years that chocolate as we typically think of it became a thing.
Best of all, drinking chocolate is really easy to make at home. The best way to start is with a good drinking chocolate mix.
Here’s a few of my favorites that all can be ordered online.
Dandelion Chocolate Signature Mix
Bar Au Chocolat Bacio Mix
Dick Taylor Single Origin Drinking Chocolate
One of my ideas for a future post is to talk about the difference between drinking chocolate and hot chocolate.
The important distinction is the former is made from a whole cocoa bean (just like a chocolate bar) while the latter is made from just cocoa powder (think something that looks like Nesquik) which has the cocoa fat removed.
Drinking chocolate is much richer and sometimes is called sipping chocolate and served in an espresso sized cup.
But things get more complicated because what we called drinking chocolate in the US (which is still somewhat new here), can be called hot chocolate or something else in other countries. And even in the US the labelling isn’t always consistent (as you’ll see with some of the rec’s above).
For now, just enjoy and let me know if you have any fun habits related to drinking chocolate!