Decadent red wine hot chocolate

Ingredients

Prep time: 20 mins

Degree of difficulty: Easy

Serves: 8 x 4 oz portions

• 3/4 Cup cream

• 3/4 Cup milk (any kind is fine)

• 1/4 a bar of Divine Chocolate’s 100% cocoa unsweetened baking bar (Approx 1.5 oz)

• 1 Cup of moderately priced Merlot (Do yourself a favor and spend the money...)

• 1 cup Cup sugar

• 2 Tablespoons Cointreu or Triplesec (optional but delicious)

• (3 Additional cups of milk for a diluted version)

Method

1. Gently heat the cream, wine and milk in a sauce pan until it begins to steam (don’t boil it or your cream will curdle - ick!). It will look a bit weirdly pink but don’t worry, the chocolate covers that up!

2. Break the chocolate into small pieces and stir into the cream mixture. Use a whisk and stir, stir, stir. Don’t be tempted to turn up the heat, just stir and eventually all of the chocolate will combine into a smooth, velvety finish.

3. Add the sugar and optional orange liqueur and stir until all the sugar is dissolved.

4. Give it a taste. You can decide here if you want to serve it the thick, decadent way, or to thin it out a bit more with the optional milk

5. Ladle out into cups and serve warm. Enjoy xx