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 when mom made too much candied pumpkin and I thought to make a hot chocolate with it.

Usually, I like to thicken my hot chocolates with corn or more chocolate but using the candied pumpkin worked out so well. I was actually a bit shocked because it worked too well and I never had thought about it. The final recipe ended up being milk, candied pumpkin, and chocolate. So simple and so easy yet so decadent and creamy. I didn’t need to add sugar since the pumpkin already had the sugar, and of course the flavor of the spices also.

If you don’t have candied pumpkin, you can certainly still make this recipe, you would just add the sugar and spices.

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hot chocolate in a glass cup topped with whipped cream

Candied Pumpkin Hot Chocolate / Chocolate Quente deDoce de abóbora

  • Author: Arcelia Gallardo
  • Prep Time: 5 minutes
  • Cook Time: 5 minutes
  • Total Time: 10 minutes
  • Yield: 1 cup 1x
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Description

When you want a fall hot chocolate or your mom made too much candied pumpkin, this recipe is it. A simple and filling pumpkin hot chocolate.

Ingredients

Scale

1 cup (250ml) of milk

20 grams of 100% cacao chocolate (just cacao)

1/8 cup (2 large spoonfuls) of candied pumpkin. You can also do this with pumpkin puree.

If you are using pumpkin puree instead of candied pumpkin, add 1 to 2 tablespoons of brown sugar, 2 cloves, 1 teaspoon of ceylon cinnamon.

Instructions

  1. Add the milk and pumpkin to a small saucepan. Add sugar and spices if using.
  2. When it begins to steam, add the chocolate and blend with a hand held blender. OR when it begins to steam, add the chocolate to a blender then add the pumpkin puree to the blender and blend. Be careful, it is hot.
  3. Serve and add whipped cream if it makes you happy.

Link here to me making this drink on TikTok.

Notes

You can use canned pumpkin for this, just remember to add sugar and the spices.

You can substitute for any vegetable or nut milk.

The longer you boil it, the thicker it will get.

You can use any chocolate, it does not have to be 100% dark chocolate. But you would have to use more of it. For example, instead of using 20 grams of a 100% chocolate, you would use 25g of 90%, 30g of 70%, 40grams of 50%, etc.

  • Category: Drinks
  • Method: boil

Keywords: pumpkin, calabaza, candying, hot chocolate, hot cocoa, cocoa, bebida de cacao

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