I’ll never forget the first time I had homemade, real, hot chocolate, made on the stove and not with a mix. Although we made our own mix from scratch (and it was delicious) there was just something about that extra chocolaty decadence of classic hot chocolate, with that little extra bit of cocoa lingering for the last sip that had me hooked.
A while back the folks from Domino sugar contacted me to ask if I’d like to feature Domino sugar on Southern Plate, they asked if I’d use one of their recipes on their handy dandy recipe site as well. I had planned on bringing y’all homemade hot cocoa for a while now but I usually make it without a recipe and had yet to take the time to measure everything out. Lo and behold, Domino did that for me so why mess with perfection? After you make this a time or two with their recipe, you’ll likely settle into just eyeballing it like I do. Either way you go, though, you just can’t beat a cup of homemade hot chocolate!
Special thanks to Domino for sending me a gift card to gather up all of the supplies I’d need for this post, including some Domino sugar in their new little canister! Be sure to check out their recipe website for plenty of yummy holiday recipes, including mixes and printable tags!
We’re gonna need: Cocoa powder, whole milk, and sugar.
Vanilla and marshmallows are optional but don’t try telling that to my kids!
The little canister of Domino sugar sure is handy. I like it when food companies get innovative with their designs.
Oh! Family, meet Kayleigh. Kayleigh, meet my Southern Plate Family.
Kayleigh is our friend and a brilliant babysitter if you are ever trying to write a book for Harper Collins and find yourself under a deadline at Christmas time, while taking care of two kids, a blog, assorted newspaper columns, and have a house to look after.
Not that I know anyone like that but I’m jes’ sayin’….
If I ever did, Kayleigh would be my best friend.
Here is my best friend pouring sugar into a sauce pot 🙂
Add your cocoa powder.
Pour in 1/2 C milk.
Stirry, stirry! It will look kinda like a paste.
Stirring constantly, bring it to a boil.
Remove from heat and pour in remaining milk.
Stir that up well and return back to stove eye set to medium.
Pour in a little vanilla if you’d like.
Continue stirring over medium heat until heated through.
Once it is heated through, pour into cups.
Add marshmallows if desired…
As for my kids, Marshmallows are very much desired!
Brady is a big fan of his Star Wars mug.
Kayleigh liked my Pyrex flamingo pink ones. 🙂
Yummmmmy!
Old Fashioned Stovetop Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup Granulated Sugar
- 1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 4 +1/2 cups Whole Milk
- 1/2 teaspoon – vanilla optional
Instructions
- In medium saucepan, combine sugar, cocoa and 1/2 C milk.
- Stir constantly over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil. Cook, stirring constantly for 2 minutes.
- Add milk and heat; do not boil. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla if desired.
- Serve hot, with marshmallows. Makes six servings.
Nutrition
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My mom would make this for me during winter! Once you taste of this you can never go back to that stuff in the package! So good! I also make thins for my kids as well!
Thanks for the cup of hot Chocolate…My Mother use to make it for me when I was a little girl..Memories. Love you , Dahling.
I love my Cocomotion machine. You dump all of the ingredients in and it whirls it around into nice hot cup of hot chocolate. Yes, it’s Hot Chocolate in Arkansas!
Where do you get a cocomotion machine. I live in Arizona so I would guess it would be hard to find one out here!! I miss making homemade hot chocolate. Think tonight calls for a cup after supper!!
WHAT? I’m in Arkansas! Where do you get the Cocomotion here?!
Stupid question I know but I gotta ask it anyway.
Can skim milk be used or would it make it to thin?
There’s no such thing as a stupid question here, Raquel! Skim milk can certainly be used and it will be a teensy less rich but still divine!
Forgot to add, it is Hot Chocolate at my house in Kentucky.
I don’t know how anybody goes back to those watery store-bought mixes after making this. It’s the only way to make hot chocolate!
We called it “hot chocolate” growing up in West Texas, and because we’re so close to Mexico, it’s not hot chocolate unless it has a pinch of cinnamon in it – or, if you’d been very, very good, Mother would put a whole cinnamon stick in it as a stirrer! Or sometimes a candy cane! Oh my gosh, I can remember how exciting that was. Hot chocolate happened on Christmas Eve, after the tamales, to fortify us for the trip to midnight Mass – and sometimes on Christmas morning, if it was cold enough.
And if I may answer – skim milk would make it pretty thin, yes. Go on, splurge! Whole milk or even cream once a year won’t kill ya!
I love tamales! I’d love to see an easy tamale recipe. 😉
We call it hot chocolate here in the Dallas area, too. And, I love cinnamon in mine. I usually buy Mexican hot chocolate tablets at the Mexican grocery store, and make it with those. I might have to try the cnnamon stick stirrer – that sounds good!
I was born and raised partly in Iowa, now live in Colorado and I call it cocoa. Cocoa is assumed to be hot already-at least by my family