Happy Day Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows + Love

Happy Day Hot Chocolate with Marshmallows + Love

Seriously snowy days call for lots of sledding, snowball fights, and snuggling up with a mug of hot chocolate. Aptly known as drinking chocolate, hot chocolate is thicker, richer, and more deeply flavored than it’s sweet brethren hot cocoa. Reach for a few bars of Happy Day Original Dark 70% or even Extremely Dark 85% to make this intensely chocolate flavored and heart-warming drink. Enjoy and remember to do good and smile along the way :) (photo credit Meghan).

Recipe:

• Makes 4 servings
• 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
• 2 tablespoons packed light brown sugar
• 5 ounces (4 bars) Happy Day Brands Original Dark Chocolate, finely chopped
• 1 quart (4 cups) whole milk
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• Pinch of salt
• Marshmallows, whipped cream or cocoa powder, for serving (optional)

Instructions:

In a small saucepan, whisk together the cocoa powder and brown sugar to break up any lumps in the sugar. Add the chopped chocolate, milk, vanilla extract, and salt.

Bring the mixture to a simmer over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until the chocolate is melted the mixture is smooth and thick, about 5 minutes at a simmer.

Remove from the heat, pour into mugs and top with marshmallows or whipped cream and a dusting of cocoa for serving.

Meet Meghan Splawn:

Meghan Splawn is a food editor with a passion for meal planning and getting messy in the kitchen with kids. She spent 10 years as part of Alton Brown’s culinary team and her work has appeared in cookbooks and magazines including Food Network Magazine, Family Fun, and Red Book. Meghan currently works as an  Associate Food Editor at Kitchn.com, where she write the wildly popular weekly column “Next Week’s Meal Plan” and about the highs and lows of feeding her family. She also hosts a weekly podcast, Didn’t I Just Feed You, which tries to help parents feed their families with humor and heart.

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HAPPY DAY CHOCOLATE WAFERS