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Candy Bar Hot Chocolate

If it’s snowing where you’re at, like it’s snowing where I’m at, you’ll appreciate this…

I’m pretty sure that all this time you thought you knew what a mug of hot chocolate was supposed to taste like. But I’ll tell you something–if you’ve been pouring a small packet of dry powder into a cup and adding really hot water, perhaps…you don’t. In fact, from this day forth, you are liable to look on such a practice as complete hot chocolate blasphemy.

In the book The Polar Express, they described what the children drank on the train, as, “…hot cocoa as thick and rich as melted chocolate bars.”

Now we’re talking…

Candy Bar Hot Chocolate

Instructions

6 ounces Symphony chocolate, chopped
2 cups milk

Place the milk and chopped chocolate in a saucepan over medium heat. Stir gently to keep chocolate from staying at the bottom of the pan and getting too hot. If you like foam, stir with a whisk just until mixture gets steamy hot. Do not let it boil. Remove from heat. Add a dollop of whip cream to the bottom of a mug. Pour in hot chocolate.

Now, go sit down and put your feet up. You’re really going to love this.


Candy Bar Hot Chocolate
 
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Ingredients
  • 6 ounces Symphony chocolate, chopped
  • 2 cups milk
Instructions
  1. Place the milk and chopped chocolate in a saucepan over medium heat.
  2. Stir gently to keep chocolate from staying at the bottom of the pan and getting too hot.
  3. If you like foam, stir with a whisk just until mixture gets steamy hot.
  4. Do not let it boil.
  5. Remove from heat.
  6. Add a dollop of whip cream to the bottom of a mug.
  7. Pour in hot chocolate.

 

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Caramel Corn Pops

If you’re looking for a quick and easy New Year’s snack–then give this one a try. Word of warning…you may just be making this well into March.

Just saying…

Caramel Corn Pops

1 box Corn Pops Cereal

2 cup pecan halves

1/2 cup butter

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup corn syrup

1 tsp vanilla

1 tsp baking soda

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Combine cereal and nuts in a greased, shallow baking pan. Set aside. In a saucepan, bring butter, sugar, and corn syrup to a boil and cook for 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add vanilla and soda. Pour caramel mixture over cereal and nuts.  Stir well until all are coated. Bake for 1 hour, stirring every 15 minutes. Pour onto waxed paper and break apart. Store in airtight container.

 

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Snack Mixes– Mexi Crackers

Mexi Crackers

1 box cheese crackers

1/2 cup butter melted

1 package taco seasoning mix

1 Tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1/2 tsp seasoned salt

Preheat oven to 250 degrees. Place crackers in a large baking pan. In a measuring cup combine butter, seasonings and Worcestershire and salt. Pour over crackers. Stir until crackers are evenly coated. Bake 1 hour, stirring occasionally. Cool. Store in airtight container.

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Snack Mixes– Savory Pretzels

Savory Pretzels

6 cups pretzels–any shape

1/2 cup butter melted

1 pkg. Ranch Dip mix

1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce

1/2 tsp. seasoned salt.

Heat oven to 250 degrees. Place pretzels in a shallow baking pan. In a small bow., combine butter, dip mix, Worcestershire sauce and salt. Pour butter mixture over pretzels. Stir well. Bake 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes. Cool. Store in an airtight container.