Hot chocolate

This morning Dave ran a 5K in 20-degree weather, so I thought we could use a little warming up when we got home. I made Ina Garten's hot chocolate from her first Barefoot Contessa Cookbook.

Hot chocolate differs from hot cocoa in the form of the chocolate: cocoa is powdered, whereas hot chocolate is chocolate melted in milk or cream. This particular hot chocolate recipe contains this delicious mix of ingredients:

• Milk
• Half and half
• Bittersweet chocolate
• Milk chocolate
• Vanilla
• Sugar
• Coffee
• Cinnamon
  

I made a few substitutions - powdered cinnamon for cinnamon sticks, and Kahlua for coffee. But it turned out delicious just the same:


It was very warming! I need to try her white hot chocolate, which also looked delicious.