5 Days of Hot Chocolate

Let's Celebrate Friday...

There's a reason why I love Nigella Lawson. It's because she comes up with wonderful things like a hot chocolate spiked with rum. Quite a fabulous way to finish up our 5 Days of Hot Chocolate and celebrate Friday don't you think?

Alcoholic Hot Chocolate by Nigella Lawson

Serves: 2

Ingredients:

2 cups milk

3 1/2 ounces best-quality dark chocolate, bittersweet or semisweet, as preferred

1 cinnamon stick

2 teaspoons honey

1 teaspoon brown sugar

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 tablespoons dark rum, or to taste

Directions:

Put the milk into a saucepan and break the chocolate into pieces and add to the milk along with a cinnamon stick, honey, and sugar and heat gently until the chocolate is melted.

Add the vanilla and mix with a small hand whisk and still whisking, add a spoonful of the rum first and taste to see if you want more. Add more sugar if you want this sweeter, too. Take out the cinnamon stick and pour into 2 cappuccino or caffe latte cups.

"Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world's perfect food."

- Michael Levine, Nutrition Researcher

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