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Warm Up With a Hot Cocoa Bar

It’s a snowy and cold day today where we live. Brrr! It makes me long for a hot drink and a soft blanket! (Step aside, iced coffee!) This Christmas in a white elephant exchange, I received this cute set for making hot cocoa.

It got me to thinking about how nice it would be to have a hot cocoa bar with all our favorite ingredients. And this cold snowy day is the perfect day for one! 🙂 Here’s what we had for our hot cocoa bar:

Hot cocoa mix – this brand is my favorite!

Some candy canes for stirring

Sprinkles for on top

Miniature marshmallows

Chocolate chips

Cinnamon, if you like a touch of spice

And, of course, whipped cream!

Set everything together in a nice arrangement.

Grab your favorite mugs, some spoons and heat up some water. Mix your hot cocoa mix with the hot water in your mug…

And then add your favorite additional ingredients! Mmmm, so warm and yummy!

Sip your delicious hot cocoa till your heart is content and your belly is nice and warm! 🙂

Taste Testing Tuesday #65 Hot Chocolate

Picture this scene…it’s February and a big winter storm is blowing in, dumping lots of snow and cold where you live. You find a good book, grab a blanket and a cup of hot chocolate and snuggle down to wait out the storm. Mmm! Nothing like a cup of hot chocolate to warm you up! 🙂 But do you like to add anything to your hot chocolate? Today we’re going to mention a few ideas you might like to try. But first, what is an easy way to make hot chocolate?

One way to make great hot chocolate is by using Rich Chocolate Ovaltine.

Add 1 cup of milk to your cup.

And 2 Tablespoons of Rich Chocolate Ovaltine.

Pop your microwave safe mug into the microwave and heat for 1 to 1 1/2 minutes, depending on how hot you like your drink. Now for the things that you can add to hot chocolate to make it even better!

#1.) Mini Marshmallows. This is one of my favorite things to add. 🙂

#2.) Cinnamon. If you have cinnamon sticks, you can use them to stir your hot chocolate. Or if you are like me and you don’t have cinnamon sticks, sprinkle some cinnamon on top.

#3.) Caramel Sauce. Mmm! What goes better with chocolate than caramel? (Ok, maybe peanut butter, but I don’t think that would work too well in hot chocolate.) You can add a little sea salt too for a salted caramel taste.

#4.) Sprinkles! But, of course! Sprinkles go well on everything, don’t they? 😉 Some of the sprinkles will sink to the bottom but some stayed nicely on top.

One of my favorite ways to have hot chocolate is to use a peppermint candy cane to stir it. Or to add in crushed peppermint candy cane. But alas, we are out of candy canes now. 😦 Some other ideas to try might be adding mini chocolate chips, chocolate syrup, vanilla flavoring, toffee bits or some coffee.

I hope you will enjoy trying a hot chocolate taste testing party at your house and you will feel nice and cozy and warm while doing it! 🙂