Hot Chocolate: Coconut; Cinnamon

We use cocoa to make hot chocolate instead of that hot chocolate powder, its tastier, variable and healthier. Nestle got it right and kept it simple in France but in South Africa they decided adding lots of salt and other things to their powder recipe, bleh. Anyway, you're probably better off making your own.

Basic Hot Chocolate

Ingredients:

2tsp sugar (or less if you only like 1 tsp sugar in your tea, or none)

1 level tsp cocoa

200ml cup milk

50ml boiling water

Method:

While the kettle's boiling, put your sugar and cocoa in your mug.

Add the boiling water and stir until dissolved.

Add the milk and microwave for about 50 seconds until warm, but not too hot to drink.

Coconut Hot Chocolate

You could keep aside some coconut milk from cooking Savoury Carrot Soup, or Thai Green Curry and put it to good use. Sometimes if you open the can of coconut milk without shaking it you can get a thick layer of cream on top. This is the kind of tastiness that you would want to add to hot chocolate and desserts. Yum.

Method:

When your hot chocolate comes out of the microwave, stir in 3 tsp coconut milk/ cream.

Cinnamon Hot Chocolate

Alter the basic hot chocolate recipe above by adding a pinch of cinnamon before putting it in the microwave.