Monday, December 20, 2010
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Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix

I’m definitely not the first food blogger to post a recipe for homemade hot cocoa mix. And I definitely won’t be the last. That’s because it makes such an easy and fun homemade gift, and I just couldn’t resist.

I used Ghirardelli chocolate and cocoa in mix. Of course, Hubby loved having an excuse to eat more homemade marshmallows and threw quite a few in his cup of hot cocoa!

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Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix

Yield: 76-2 Tbsp servings

Ingredients:

2 vanilla beans
4 cups granulated sugar
24 oz high-quality semisweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
9 oz dark chocolate, coarsely chopped
2 cups Dutch process cocoa

Directions:

Split and scrape vanilla beans and place in a large bowl or jar with the sugar. Work seeds into the sugar with your fingers. Bury the pods under the sugar. Cover tightly and let stand overnight (or up to months–vanilla sugar keeps forever) at room temperature.

In a food processor fitted with metal blade, process semisweet chocolate and dark chocolate until finely ground, using 4-second pulses. Process in batches, if necessary.

Remove pod from sugar. Add ground chocolate and cocoa powder to sugar and whisk to blend, making sure to combine well. Store mix airtight at room temperature for up to six months.

Assemble your gifts:
Scoop 1 1/2 cups of cocoa mix into a medium sized bag. Attach a tag with the following note: Heat 8 oz milk on med-high heat until scalded. Add 2 Tbsp cocoa mix and whisk until smooth. Top with a marshmallow. Makes 12 servings.

Recipe as seen on Confections of a Foodie Bride, originally from Gourmet

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    Party Box Design — May 14, 2010 at 11:50 am

    YUMMMY! NOW I AM HUNGRY! I wonder if you could use a ratio of real butter in the filling?

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    Jen — May 14, 2010 at 12:01 pm

    The filling recipe does use real butter as well as shortening.

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    yumventures — May 15, 2010 at 12:38 am

    did they taste good? they look amazing! i’m glad you got to spend such nice time with your sister 🙂

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    Drama queens mum (Kimberly) — May 15, 2010 at 3:07 am

    Love your blog. I have a huge sweet tooth. I’m from the North shore area, but live in NH now.

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    Jen — May 15, 2010 at 1:27 pm

    Good question yumventures! They were really good. The thin ones were a bit too crispy and the thicker ones were just perfect texture wise. Everyone loved these.

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    Anh — May 28, 2010 at 4:23 am

    I saw your photo of the oreo and thought “fabulous”. Just save the recipe to try!

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