Cardamom Hot Chocolate with Honey Cream
Hot Chocolate is one of life’s simple pleasures. When it’s raining or snowing outside and you’re cold through – a hot chocolate always seems to give you just the warmth you need to get the spring back in your step.
This hot chocolate has a sophisticated cardamom spice hit and rich manuka honey to sweeten. Topped with honey whipped cream, this will absolutely become your new favourite morning treat!
There’s something about hot cocoa that has been warmed in a pot rather than just added to water that gives it extra richness, and the feeling of a special treat. It also helps the cardamom to soak into the milk and chocolate flavours and infuse your drink with a depth of flavour and spicy warmth.
If you’re considering leaving out the whipped cream (it works just as well with coconut whipping cream) you may want to reconsider. Whipped Honey Cream is the ultimate Hot Cocoa topping and you’re not only getting happy tastebuds but also a happy immune system with a big hit of methylglyoxal, bio-available bee bread and pollen particles. Just make sure that the honey you use is genuinely raw, like Steens Manuka Honey from New Zealand.
In this recipe we’ve used Steens Raw MGO 50+ Manuka Honey in the hot cocoa, and Steens Raw UMF 10+ Manuka Honey in our whipped honey cream.
This is the ideal drink to sit and enjoy with no distractions!
Enjoy
The Steens Team x
INGREDIENTS
Hot Chocolate
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5 cups of milk
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1/3 Cups unsweetened dark chocolate chips
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1/3 Cup of raw Manuka honey
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1/4 Cup cocoa powder
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1/2 Teaspoon cardamom
Topping
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2 tablespoons of raw Manuka honey
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1 Cup of whipping cream
Hot Cocoa
Place all ingredients in a pot over medium heat and whisk until it chocolate has melted and heated to desired temperature.
Topping
In a standing mixer, whip together the honey and cream on low until the mixture becomes frothy. Turn the mixer onto medium-high until the mixture has soft peaks then turn the mixture on high until it has stiff peaks.
Pour your hot cocoa into a mug and top with whipped honey cream. The perfect contemplation drink!
