{"id":333,"date":"2010-01-02T18:29:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T22:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/?p=333"},"modified":"2010-11-28T20:48:22","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T02:48:22","slug":"grow-up-hot-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/grow-up-hot-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Grown up Hot Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So for the 3rd or 4th time I have made us some rather adult hot chocolate.\u00a0 I have to warn you this is not for the occasional chocolate lover, it&#8217;s rich, it&#8217;s thick and it contains booze.\u00a0 I believe that after KLT enjoyed a cup the other night he proclaimed that he needed a glass of milk to follow that.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>INGREDIENTS<br \/>\n<\/strong>So I have tweaked this to get it to make 2 full coffee cups.<\/p>\n<p>Fill 2 coffee mugs with hot water to preheat the cups. Get out your chocolate sprinkles, whipped cream or marshmallows.<\/p>\n<p>In a small ramekin place the following and save for later.<\/p>\n<p>2 1\/2-3 teaspoons of Vanilla<br \/>\n2-3 Tablespoons of liqueur (<a href=\"http:\/\/vangoghvodka.com\/Van_Gogh_Vodka_Double_Espresso.html\" target=\"_blank\">Van Gough Double Espresso Vodka<\/a>, Amaretto, Peppermint Schnapps &#8211; you pick your favorite)<\/p>\n<p>6 oz of 60% cocoa chocolate (I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ghirardelli.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ghirardelli<\/a> )<br \/>\n1 cup of heavy cream<br \/>\n1 cup + of 2% Milk<\/p>\n<p>Over medium heat melt the chocolate in the milk. STIR constantly until melted. Once melted keep stirring and simmer until a nice steam rolls off. Remove from heat and plunge your boat motor in if you&#8217;d like your hot chocolate to be frothy other wise just stir and add the contents of your ramekin.<\/p>\n<p>Pour hot water out of mugs and fill with the chocolate goodness, top with your favorite things and serve.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"mosaicHOTCHO by tclarkcreations, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/photos_by_tammy\/4238726358\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4043\/4238726358_c6e5fc882a_o.jpg\" alt=\"mosaicHOTCHO\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So for the 3rd or 4th time I have made us some rather adult hot chocolate. I have to warn you this is not for the occasional chocolate lover, it&#8217;s rich, it&#8217;s thick and it contains booze. I believe that after KLT enjoyed a cup the other night he proclaimed that he needed a glass of milk to follow that. <\/p>\n<p>INGREDIENTS So I have tweaked this to get it to make 2 full coffee cups.<\/p>\n<p>Fill 2 coffee mugs with hot water to preheat the cups. Get out your chocolate sprinkles, whipped cream or marshmallows.<\/p>\n<p>In a small ramekin place the following and save for later.<\/p>\n<p>2 1\/2-3 teaspoons <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/grow-up-hot-chocolate\/\">Grown up Hot Chocolate<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,10,142,70],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beverages","category-food-leisure","category-from-the-kitchen","category-holiday","tag-chocolate","odd"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clarkcreations.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}