A Mexican hot chocolate is a hot drink prepared in Mexico or in the style of how Mexicans drink chocolate, which means grinding cacao, adding hot water or milk, sugar, and cinnamon. In Mexico, they generally just call it a chocolate but given the amount of Mexican immigrants in the USA, the name Mexican hot…
I have been in the chocolate industry for about 20 years, first as a chocolatier then as a chocolate maker. Most people don’t realize that there is a big difference between chocolate makers and chocolatiers. When I opened my first store, I was a chocolatier; I bought chocolate chips from Guittard Chocolate then melted the…
This recipe is focused on making the disks or mix for making the Mexican hot chocolate drink or any cacao based drinks. The language can get a bit confusing, so you might want to begin your journey with me by reading a previous post I wrote clarifying “What is Mexican Hot Chocolate.” In this recipe…
The best way to explain mezcal is to compare it to tequila.
I love pumpkin candied with cinnamon, cloves, and brown sugar. Every pumpkin season brings with it pots and pots full of candied pumpkin, or dulce da calabaza, or doce de abóbora. My family does not prepare any savory dishes with pumpkin, for us, pumpkin is an ingredient for sweets. So finally there was a time…
My mom has been growing roses my entire life but we are never allowed near them. People ask me if there is any danger in consuming rose petals and I say of course not … unless you are cutting them from my mothers garden. You will lose your arm if she sees you damaging her…
The best coffee in Mexico, and my favorite, is sweet and flavored with orange zest, cinnamon, and brown sugar. What can make it better? Chocolate. This is not a hot chocolate flavored with coffee, I have another recipe for that here. This is a coffee flavored with all these things, including chocolate – the consistency…
I think your first question or judgement is, why the heck would you want to put a tortilla in your hot chocolate?! Chocolate drinks have been drunk for thousands of years and often in combination with corn. Now that I live in Brazil, where manioc, a root vegetable, dominates as the staple ingredient, I have…
This recipe uses a corn tortilla to make a thickened Mexican style hot chocolate. I have been drinking hot chocolate like a maniac my whole life and it was in an emergency, lack of Mexican corn flour, that I came to the realization that I could use a tortilla to thicken and flavor my hot…
This three ingredient foamy hot chocolate is super simple to make and is so filling and tasty. I am obsessed with peanuts, especially caramelized peanuts. So why not turn them into a hot chocolate? There is no good reason not to. The reason to use peanut brittle instead of peanuts and sugar? Because the peanut…
Mexican hot chocolate with coffee is so delicious! Anytime that a pastry chef wants to give more chocolate flavor to a cake or brownie, they add some ground coffee. Coffee makes chocolate taste more chocolatey, did you know that? This is one of my favorite ways to drink hot chocolate and it is so simple…
