ipsedixit challenges you not to like hot chocolate with a big spoonful of Nutella swirled into it. It’s smooth, creamy, and gives just the right punch to the drink without making it too sweet.
Peppermint schnapps, amaretto, and bourbon are favored by hounds as hot chocolate additions. troutpoint likes hot chocolate dosed with spiced rum and whipped cream—apparently, in Jim Leff’s beloved Newfoundland, it’s called a snowball. Cinnamon and cayenne, in dark chocolate with very little milk, is the preferred concoction of AnnaEA. Other options: creamy peanut butter, Earl Grey tea-infused milk, and a mixture of Vietnamese cinnamon, almond extract, and salt.
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My husband recommends hot Cadbury’s Drinking Chocolate with a hit of Myer’s Rum. (Cadbury’s has to be imported from the UK but can be bought online via a wholesaler here in the US.)