Hot Chocolate + Recipe

Hot chocolate (also called hot cocoa, drinking chocolate or just cocoa) is a hot drink.Hot chocolate is usually drunk to make the drinker feel happier or warmer. Some studies have shown that hot chocolate may be healthy because of antioxidants that are in cocoa. Until the 1800s, hot chocolate was also used by doctors as a medicine against some diseases.

It is believed that the hot chocolate drink was first made by the Mayan people about 2,000 years ago. Another cocoa drink was made by the Aztecs by 1400 AD/CE. The drink became popular in Europe after being brought from Mexico into the New World, and has changed a lot since then. Today, hot chocolate is used around the world. It comes in many different types such as the very thick cioccolata densain Italy, and the thinner hot cocoa that is usually drunk in the United States.

Ingredients:

Hot chocolate, also known as Chocolate tea, drinking chocolate or just cocoa is a heated beverage consisting of :

• shaved chocolate
• melted chocolate or cocoa powder
• heated milk or water, and 
• usually a sweetener sugar

Recipe:

• Hot chocolate is usually made by mixing chocolate or cocoa powder and sugar with warm milk or water.  
• Hot chocolate may be topped with whipped cream chocolate chips etc.. 
• Hot chocolate made with melted chocolate is sometimes called drinking chocolate, characterized by less sweetness and a thicker consistency

Link for the recipe and procedure is as follows: https://youtu.be/5HrRe7hlepk