Lolita Charm: Colombian Hot Chocolate!

Monday, November 9, 2009

Colombian Hot Chocolate!

A friend of mine recently spent a few months visiting the country of Colombia, and before she went back to school she graciously surprised me with a brick of bitter Colombian chocolate. Since Miss Lumpy came by to visit with a beautiful slice of cherry gateau, we decided to try making it the traditional way my friend suggested. If you want to try it, you will need:

a block of chocolate
milk or cream
a saucepan
sugar to taste

Pour a cup of milk into a saucepan and heat over the stove (one cup of milk makes about two servings in traditional teacups). Add a section of chocolate (ours was printed with sections - I'd say something about the size and depth of a postage stamp, or perhaps the size of two sugar cubes). Use a spoon to stir the chocolate into the milk, and break it up with the spoon as it gets softer. When it's fully liquid, whisk if until it seems sufficiently fluffy and one liquid. Pour into cups. It does have a thick residue, which you can strain with a tea-strainer if it bothers you - but it's just shavings of chocolate, so that's more to your preference.

The hot chocolate tastes much more like a coffee drink or a mocha, because it's not tempered with added sweetness. Use a few spoonfuls of sugar or maybe whipped cream to sweeten it up if you're not fond on the coffee flavor. The slightly bitter drink is best paired with a sweeter chocolate in a dessert, or a fruit flavor like strawberry or cherry or raspberry.

Psst - you can also sneak a peek at my new Milky-chan onepiece in this photo! It's really sweet, I love that milk chocolate color and the teeny silky bows. You'll definitely be seeing more of it soon!

Labels: cooking, lolita living

15 Comments:

At November 9, 2009 at 12:41 PM , Saffron Sugar said...: I like making hot chocolate that way too, but usually with milk chocolate. It's great when the weather gets colder... I like adding a bit of chilli or cinnamon, sometimes :)
At November 9, 2009 at 1:38 PM , Josephine said...: You look really... dainty and delicate, there, sipping from your teacup (even if you're wearing that dress that I don't find very lolita!)

It's nice to see that chocolate wrap with the text written in my mother language. ;3; Also - did your friend visit Columbia or ColOmbia? :) I have a classmate from Colombia.

I wish it were winter again!
At November 9, 2009 at 2:33 PM , Anonymous said...: it's amazing how you switch from breathtaking, soultouching entries like your last one to light topic like this. it makes me love your blog even more! it just doesn't get boring like some other blogs that are always about one of those, but never about both.

and i really like making hot chocolate like that. i also do it with that bitter type of cocoa you usually use to put on top of tiramisu. not that sugar thing from the supermarket that just tastes like chocolate-sugar with to much milk. the cocoa i'm talking about isn't sweetend at all, even less then any chocolate you could find but it still has that perfect flavour. if i do it with a minimum of sugar and some chili it tastes more like a power drink, if used with more sugar, or even honey and some cinnamon it tastes like christmas *.*
At November 9, 2009 at 2:57 PM , Luzmaría Alam said...: The hot chocolate its the best, we have in block too :) its the best the latin way jejeej
At November 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM , Victoria Suzanne said...: @SaffronSugar: ooh, I like the idea of cinnamon! That'll be my next try :)

@Princess Tsuki: I checked and yes, Colombia the country - ColUmbia is the university. I was a little confused at first! O-O And thank you for your compliments, even is Milky-chan isn't your favorite ;)

@jingfeng-im-juli: Thank you very much, I'm glad you like both :3 And I'll have to try honey too, you have so many great ideas about making hot chocolate!

@Princess: oooh the Latin way, sounds delicious!
At November 10, 2009 at 1:09 AM , wazzra said...: what a wonderful present!
It's a bit like when I bring liters of maple syrup to my american or european friends :)
At November 10, 2009 at 2:09 AM , tanu~ said...: oww how delicious!
with this cold weather a cup of this is the best!
I've never tried colombian coffee...but the mexican chocolate is really delicious too ^0^
At November 10, 2009 at 4:55 AM , Vixel said...: Ooooh that sounds like just what I need right now, I'm shivering in the office and craving chocolate!
At November 10, 2009 at 11:31 PM , Corvida said...: I made this recipe for Pumpkin Pie White Hot Chocolate yesterday. Magnifique!

http://closetcooking.blogspot.com/2009/11/pumpkin-pie-white-hot-chocolate.html
At November 11, 2009 at 10:00 PM , Unknown said...: This comment has been removed by the author.
At November 11, 2009 at 10:07 PM , Anonymous said...: I love dark chocolates, and this reciepe sounds perfect for a cold winters night! *must try it* :D
At November 13, 2009 at 5:53 AM , Melody said...: I love hot chocolate out of tea cups, but I find that it can stain some of the older antique ones! Apparently a pinch of vinegar to rinse will get rid of residue, though.
At November 14, 2009 at 4:40 AM , Ari♥ said...: i love that chocolate! is so perfect i have never try a better cocoa than that colombian one! my aunt always bring me some, well may be not the same one but is one thatcomes in big bars and you melt it with milk, OMG i whant some!
At November 16, 2009 at 5:19 PM , Anonymous said...: I need to try this!!!
At July 13, 2010 at 7:50 PM , Akari said...: Colombian hot chocolate is awesome! If I ever move out from here, I'll take a bag full of chocolate. My favorite one is the cinnamon flavored one... It's incredibly good.

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