(Part 2) Best hot cocoa according to redditors
We found 56 Reddit comments discussing the best hot cocoa. We ranked the 40 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the products ranked 21-40. You can also go back to the previous section.
Hot chocolate. Ideally this one.
I use this cocoa that I found at Whole Foods, using this will take 2.5 more net carbs out.
Equal Exchange Cocoa
I do the exact same with black coffee and either Nestle Fat Free or Swiss Miss Light packets at 20-25 calories per serving.
Hot coco
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I haven't stumbled across any nutritional disadvantages.
Rapunzel Pure Organic Powder taste amazing and taper off my caffè mocha addiction.
It's pretty fun, because (1) there are endless new toys to acquire (if you're into that!), and (2) it's actually fairly budget-friendly after you get the initial hardware out of the way (ex. KitchenAid mixer etc.)...I mean, a 50-pound sack of flour is like twenty bucks, and you can make a zillion loaves of breads & cookies out of that! I do get a few premium ingredients for specific recipes here & there, but mostly I just use run-of-the-mill ingredients & get really great results!
It's also really fun amping up both the quality of your results & the experiencing of your cooking & baking time. For example, I cook these amazing five-hour carnitas in the oven, which is one of the things that got me into using leaf lard (which then turned into other incredible things, like lard-based oatmeal cookies). But then the off-the-shelf tortillas were disappointing with those stellar carnitas, so I picked up a cast-iron tortilla press (for smashing, not baking!). I then combined that with a lard-based tortilla recipe and oooooh yeah that's an awesome combination of textures, flavors, warmth, and happiness, hahaha! So going down rabbits holes is quite fun with baking!
I do a lot with my 8-cavity mini-loaf pan, which surprisingly freeze well! Banana bread & pumpkin bread with sweet cream cheese spread, cornbread, chocolate chocolate-chip bread, the list is endless! I also bake excellent homemade Twinkies in various flavors on a regular basis. I was never an overly-huge Twinkie fan, but one of my favorite bakeries makes them in a million flavors with a million different fillings & coatings (chocolate-dipped, white-chocolate dipped & dark-chocolate striped, peanut-butter filled chocolate twinkies, raspberry cake coated with coconut, etc.). So endless variations are also quite fun with baking!
If you want to build up your skills on the more technical side, Bigger Bolder Baking is a fantastic website to check out. If you want a few top-notch (I'm talking like "WOW!") recipes to try out right off the bat:
You'll discover a lot of little tricks over time. For example, which those chocolate-chip cookies above, whipping the cream & sugar & butter & eggs into something that literally resembled whipped cream is a really great trick to know about...most people just stir those together until combined, but they will actually change color, texture, and consistency when whipped long enough! Side note, if you have a KitchenAid, I highly recommend getting a SideSwipe blade (available on Amazon, be sure to get the right blade for your mixer!).
On that topic, I also recommend getting a coated dough hook & an 11-wire whisk. Wait until you try homemade marshmallows! (super easy with that whisk attachment!) When it gets cold out, I cut those bad boys into 2" chunks, skewer them, heat up some water for the delicious Stephen's hot cocoa powder mix, and then torch the marshmallows. That combination came out so good that I started hosting annual hot chocolate parties, lol!
You can get as creative as you want to with baking, too...like with cakes, you can airbrush them, do drip cakes, mirror glaze cakes, you can torch the tops of cupcakes, make cake pops, the list is endless! Depending on what stage you're at in life, especially in my case as a working adult with a family, I don't get a lot of opportunity for creative outlets due to a lack of free time (and energy, tbh lol), but my family has to eat, and baking is a fun way to amp up your enjoyment in life by making cool stuff you can eat & having fun doing it!
Plus pretty much everything is actually really easy, no matter how complicated it looks...you're just following someone else's step-by-step directions, that they have painstakingly figured out for you through probably dozens of iterations to get it perfect (as Stella did when perfecting her lacy brown-butter cookies!), and that mostly boils down to (1) mix stuff in a bowl, (2) bake it, (3) don't burn it, (4) let it cool down & "set". That little four-step process yields amazing no-knead bread, pan pizzas, twinkies, cookies, brownies, you name it!
Everyone needs hot chocolate. Seriously and flavored is best Honestly i've never found a better hot chocolate mix than these.
also if you drive a car shovel is awesome to keep around just in case, if you have a sidewalk or something you'll want a snow shovel to keep that clear.
Brace yourself
This would be great for here all diffferent flavors to keep her warm and toasty in the cold
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This is what I buy. I originally bought a bigger tin of it at Costco, but they discontinued it. Tasty, real chocolate. It doesn't dissolve but melts, so hot milk is required.
I love coffee!!!!!!!!!! My main port of awesomeness is my Keurig. I love that damn thing. The only downside is the fact that the pods are kinda spendy, but it makes a perfect cup every single time... to order. I don't have to worry about pots of coffee dying on a hot plate or in a carafe. Plus it's lazy. Little cleanup and I never have to boil water for tea or cocoa either.
I do miss my press though. If you have a really great set of beans the press brings out the best flavor.
K-cups!!
Dark Chocolate Hot Cocoa (yeah, it's not coffee but equally yummy.) http://www.amazon.com/Grove-Square-CHOCOLATE-Hot-Cocoa/dp/B0071QPKUG/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2EE14691CYV1N&coliid=I39G5QZEULDVAO
Kahlua flavored coffee http://www.amazon.com/Timothys-Kahlua-Original-Keurig-K-Cups/dp/B004V3INE2/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_S_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2EE14691CYV1N&coliid=I60AMQ3GXCIBW
And my favorite blend... Caribou's Mahogany Blend http://www.amazon.com/Caribou-Coffee-Mahogany-Brewers-24-Count/dp/B00474VPY0/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pC_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=2EE14691CYV1N&coliid=I63E2A7XLS8W5
My wife and I just bought this pumpkin spice hot cocoa and it's heaven. I highly recommend.
This is in total more than $5, but if you split it up, it's $5 each. They're DELICIOUS and my mom stocking stuffed with them last year. Really yummy flavors of hot cocoa <3
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I must be doing something wrong then. I've gone through 5 cans of that powder. In varying amounts and with 3 separate Starbucks whole-bean roasts to make the shots. I must be cursed.
My sisters and I exchange stockings as a tradition, and since there are three of us, we each get two complete stockings. It is the best part of the holiday! There are so many good stocking stuffers to be found on Amazon and I will link some of them here for you that I have found.
Good advice is to collect small things all year so by December you have a stocking full. I keep a hanging bag in my closet and throw things in it all year. I just looked through it this weekend and there are things I don't even remember buying earlier in the year!
Some favorites:
62 cent make-up sponge
$2 lip conditioner
$2 lip gloss duo - I have this and love it.
Things that are not make up that I always love to get in my stockings include: bath bombs, facial masks, $2 headbands and maybe some fancy cocoas...
Hot cocoa sampler
Nah, I'm kidding.
It's an item that no one ever orders, buy lots of places still have it available, thus they go with the cheapest option. It's these guys... https://www.amazon.com/Nestle-Hot-Cocoa-Chocolate-Packets/dp/B00281PIBA?th=1
The likelihood of Apple Bees or a local pop and pop shop having a decent cappuccino machine that can heat milk is slim, thus they use the hot water from the coffee machine... example, the red tab to the left: https://www.restaurantequipmentsolutions.com/img/lrg/b/buncwt22.jpg
http://www.amazon.com/Nestle-Milo-14-1-Ounce-Units-Pack/dp/B001GVISU6/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1311582254&amp;sr=8-1
is that the stuff?
That still sounds like an awful lot of cocoa. But then I am not a real chocoholic.
I'm using this stuff and you can see the label it says it makes 8oz. I put one serving in a whole 2-quart batch of Soylent 1.5 and it still had strong flavor. I'm not sure if the "double chocolate" makes it any more chocolatey than a single serving of regular cocoa.
A video game, some hot chocolate for the cold Fairbanks winter (it can get down to -50 or colder), or a case for my iPhone 5. All things that'd be nice to have :P
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