Thick hot chocolate
 

Can anyone give me the brand name of a hot chocolate that goes really thick? My homemade churros go really soggy in thin stuff. Thanks

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Make your own with grated quality chocolate and milk.

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Thanks for that but not sure on quantities and I'd hate to waste good, real chocolate. You got a recipe, please?

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The way I make it is I get a high cocoa bar of chocolate, say 70% and above (don't buy that cheap cooking crap) then I flake it off, heat up a pan of milk (full fat if you can get it) and slowly let it dissolve, whisking it to make sure it mixes and doesn't boil.

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Great. I'll try that.

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Don't forget the whipped cream!!!!

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And if you are ever in Madrid, go to the Chocolateria San Gines. They are famous for having some of the best hot chocolate and churros around.

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Can't stand the stuff myself but as the Spanish have it for breakfast I do know they sell shed loads of the stuff in the shops and bars, can't recommend a brand though.

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Naughty, naughty, Rugbymatt!!!

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What have I done now????

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The purest form of chocolate you can purchase in Spain is Valor a la taz, (tins). Others have varying amounts of sugar added.

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Whipped cream's a bit OTT!!!

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Yeah.... but it tastes SO good!

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I'm lazy and if I want hot chocolate I buy the ready to drink stuff that just needs heating up.

But there aren't many greater disappointments in life than asking for a hot chocolate in a bar/cafe and being presented with a ColaCao.

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The worst gliff I had was asking for one and getting a cup of lukewarm milk and a sachet of powder on the side.

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Ahhhh..... 70 to 80% is pure gold.

Ever tried those Bendick's Bittermints? Pure gastric pornography and more addictive than crack. They also do an orange Bendick's which is good, and a ginger one which is delicious.

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I am a dark chocolate fanatic, we never had any sweets growing up in the middle east so I really couldn't care less for sweet things, but dark chocolate... mmmm.....

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When I was young, there was only really bourneville plain and after eights around, from there I graduated to the hard stuff. now, anything less than 70% and I find it very sickly.

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Ahhhh Bendick's. Yummy, yummy yummy. Back in the 1980's, they used to be a client of the company I was working for. Used to get the rejects (seconds) from the factory and quite often, one could not tell the difference in texture from their first's. In those days, they had quite a few flavours as well some experimental's.

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I have always much preferred what is my idea of real choolate,...ie milk chocolate,...as in choc au lait,...piece of milk,....which in my eyes is what real chocolate is, and always should be.
I dont really care much for the dark cocoa version, which I think is an entirely different product, and should not even come under the heading of chocolate.
However having googled it to try and prove my point, I find my theory sadly blown apart, as it infers that the word chocolate may actually originate from S.America,the home of that nasty,sickly dark stuff.:confused:

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I think I`m falling in love with you ;)

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that`s it. I`m gone. :lol:

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hang on - my head turns......

I love you too Bil :wub:

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:rofl:

Yeah, it's not derived from choc au lait, but some wierd Aztec word beginning with 'x'

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How on earth can people compare milk chocolate to the real McCoy. :rofl:

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Hi there,

Valor is the name of the brand you are after. The packaging used to be long and thin white and red stripes, kind of thing, and it was sold in the main supermarkets. They also have their own cafeterias in some places (for example, Plaza de la Reina in Valencia, 'Chocolateria Valor').

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Some of the hot chocolate I have been given has been so thick, once I dip my churro into it, it's a struggle to get it out again!

Reminds me of Peter Kay and his tale of dunking his hobnobs, the S.A.S. of biscuits :D

I think they add cornflour to most makes.

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Hi, If you have a Mercadona close by they do a chocolate branded Hacendado in a 400g bag for a euro. F:thumbsup:antastic and thick and won't break the bank even during this 'crisis'.

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Will deffo keep an eye out for that one too. Sounds good. Thanks.

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Oh I dont know about that, one of my most vivid childhood memories of the UK, is going for the first time into a newsagents and seeing the array of chocolate bars.

I had never seen anything like it before, in Spain we had "golosibas" we must have had some chocolate bars, but I reallu dont remember them.

I spent the fist few weeks trying all my friends favourites, because I had no idea what they were. I was covered in "heat lumps" but did not care. I had arrived in heaven

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Cadburys all the way for me:thumbsup:

Although I do like the strong bitter stuff too - just not as much.

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Right... I have emailed a chef mate of mine who lived in Spain (and worked as a chef) for 18 years and he gave me this recipe of the one they used to make the hot chocolate in their restaurant....


400 ml milk
250 ml sweetened condensed milk
300 g Dark chocolate broken up (he says use anything 70% and up)
250 ml double cream
1 small cinnamon stick.

Infuse the cinnamon in the milk by gently simmering for 15 mins, melt the chocolate in a baine marie and when its melted stir in the infused milk and condensed cream until smooth and emulsified and pour into glasses or cups. Whisk the cream and put a dollop on each one then you are ready to go.....


Hope it helps.

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MMMMMMM! Yummy!

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Ill stick with the old cadburys too, the one and only, the best.:thumbup:

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with nuts?

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and fruit for me..........

Cream eggs for the wife, she love the adverts with the little egg, taking its wrapper off and catapulting itself at the screen.

She runs into the living room if she hears its on the TV.....

It takes her about half an hour to eat one, I wish I got as much attention...............

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cream eggs are too sickly

I do love Valor hot choccy - & the advert;)

with churros or fartons

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So what is your considered opinion of ....................Smarties?

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¿churros con champurrado?
:thumbsup:

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Creme eggs are so sickly I would bring my toenails up if I ate one.

My daughter gave me a box of candied orange peel dipped in seriously dark chocolate.

Ooooooooo.........