{"id":272,"date":"2010-01-02T21:52:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T21:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=272"},"modified":"2010-01-02T21:52:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T21:52:49","slug":"first-post-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.scifiville.com\/?p=272","title":{"rendered":"First Post of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

And it’s about hot chocolate…<\/p>\n

I’d fancied making this vanilla hot chocolate mix<\/a> ever since I heard about it on Twitter earlier in December. It sounded pretty simple to make. I already had homemade vanilla sugar but not four US cups worth so I only made a quarter of the mix. I also added up both the chocolate quantities into one although I did use two types of chocolate since I had some plain chocolate from a friend for Christmas. The majority of the chocolate I used though was ultra cheap supermarket chocolate and the resulting drink was excellent!<\/p>\n

The hardest part was grinding down the chocolate. I used my Kenwood food processor and it still took some time. As the recipe calls, I had roughly chopped the chocolate. In the processor I soon ended up with what resembled chocolate boulders. I pulsed and used a variety of the other speeds. The chocolate ground down but it also compacted under the blade so I had to switch it off and break up the compacted bit with a spoon before running the blade again.<\/p>\n

Here’s my reduced quantities.<\/p>\n

8 ounces chocolate<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1 US cup vanilla sugar<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

1\/2 US cup cocoa (I used Cadbury’s Bournville cocoa)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Even making a small amount still filled this large tin. This is part of a set that Doug bought for me some time ago with a fab cup cake design.<\/p>\n

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The tin I used to contain my hot chocolate mix<\/p><\/div>\n

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And this is what the resulting mix looks like.<\/p>\n

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Essentially it looks like something you’d buy in a store.<\/p>\n

Epicurious suggests using 1\/2-1\/3 cup with 8 fluid ounces of milk. I opted for the 1\/3 and it was very rich. I still can’t believe how good this was considering the cheap chocolate I used.<\/p>\n

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I have now given up on trying to get the photos in this post to centre and to stop the text from going where it shouldn’t! Argh! I used to have this problem with Typepad as well.<\/p>\n

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