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| Homemade Hot Cocoa Mix |
Every year, I try to
make food gifts for my friends. Last year I made Cheese
and Bacon Crackers and Beef Jerky.
Both very well received. In fact, someone stole my friend’s Beef Jerky
from his job!
This year has been
very busy, and I wanted to do something thoughtful, but easy. Hot Cocoa mix is always
popular and how hard can that be? Right? Wrong! I have mixed and remixed and
mixed again. Getting a mix that is creamy, chocolatey, sweet (but not too sweet)
and that also dissolves was no easy task.
You are lucky I have
taken all the work out of making this great gift. I purchased ½ pint mason jars
for gifting. This is inexpensive and very easy.
Servings: 9 (ish)
cups (That is actual measuring cups. It makes almost 70 cups of chocolate)
Hardware: Measuring cups and spoons, a gallon storage
bag, a food processor, a funnel (optional) 9-½ pint mason jars
Time: Active time
10 minutes
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups Dutch processed Cocoa
- 3 cups powdered milk
- 3 cups powdered sugar
- 1.5 cups granulated sugar
- 1-5.9-ounce box of instant chocolate pudding
- 6 ounces of chocolate chips
- ½ tablespoon corn starch
- 1.5 teaspoons salt
- Using the food processor, grind the chocolate chips as small as you can get them.
- Mix the ground chips and all the other ingredients together in the bag.
- Shake like crazy to mix.
- Place ½ cup plus 2 tablespoons into each mason jar. Each jar makes about 5 cups of cocoa.
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You can personalize each jar by mixing in ONE of these:
- 2 tablespoons instant coffee
- 1 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 1 pinch of cayenne pepper
You can include a gift bag with each jar that includes any
or all of these: a tiny bag of mini marshmallows, a mini bottle of peppermint
schnapps or Kahlua, miniature candy canes, a tiny bag of crushed butterscotch or a tiny bag of crushed peppermints.
Go all out and add in a mug and you have a great gift for anyone on your list.
To make the hot cocoa, shake the jar like crazy before each
use. Add 2-3 tablespoons of boiling water to a mug. Then stir in 2 heaping tablespoons
of Hot Cocoa Mix. Stir until all the mix is dissolved. Top the dissolved mix with
6 ounces of hot water or steaming milk. Stir again. Then add in any of the mix-ins
or top with mini marshmallows or whipped cream. Then relax and enjoy
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