{"id":4107,"date":"2026-11-13T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/?p=4107"},"modified":"2026-11-13T15:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T15:37:15","slug":"rich-dark-and-creamy-hot-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/rich-dark-and-creamy-hot-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rich, Dark and Creamy Hot Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">This is a deep dark and rich version of hot chocolate, where separately melted bitter chocolate thickens the beverage to a wonderfully creamy and silky consistency towards the very end of its preparation, and this process works magic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you wish to make your hot chocolate sweeter, just add more fine or icing sugar towards the very end of cooking the beverage, tasting the final result first and deciding afterwards.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Makes 3-4 tea cup portions or 2 generous cups for someone greedy like myself:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">480 ml of milk, full fat<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">10-11 g of bitter cocoa powder<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">16 g of corn or potato starch<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">2 scant tablespoons of sugar (you could use Demerara sugar as well)<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">100-110 g of a dark good quality chocolate 70-72%, broken into smaller pieces<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Start with melting the dark chocolate using the bain-marie method. Once it\u2019s turned into a liquid, switch the source of the heat off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Whilst the chocolate pieces are slowly melting, sieve into a small pot the cocoa powder and the corn starch. Add the sugar and pour in the milk stirring all the while with a whisk (to avoid any lumps).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Set the pot over a low to medium heat and bring to simmer stirring the mixture continuously.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Once the mixture starts to boil, switch the heat off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pour in the melted chocolate and stir well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Taste and add more sugar should that not be enough for you.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">If you would like to thicken your hot chocolate even more, place the pot back on the hob and cook for a further 2 minutes, which should be enough to obtain the desired consistency.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a deep dark and rich version of hot chocolate, where separately melted bitter chocolate thickens the beverage to a wonderfully creamy and silky consistency towards the very end of its preparation, and this process works magic. If you wish to make your hot chocolate sweeter, just add more fine or icing sugar towards &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/rich-dark-and-creamy-hot-chocolate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rich, Dark and Creamy Hot Chocolate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[811,807,808,809,810],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4117,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4107\/revisions\/4117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haimangiato.com\/pl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}