Hot Chocolate

    After Harry‘s been spirited away and Mr. Weasley’s Ford Anglia to the Burrow, He enjoys the rest of summer vacation with Ron.  On the last night before start of term, with desert and hot chocolate.

     We gathered all of the ingredients.  We had to improvise a bit with some of the ingredients. Mom doesn’t really drink coffee so we really had no desire to buy a whole bottle of instant coffee.  So we got some Starbucks VIA instant coffee in vanilla.

    We started with mixing up the sugar, coffee, and coco powder.  

    Next was melting the chocolate.  That was really the part we loved and couldn’t wait for it.

    Once we added the milk it was one step closer.

    As we were trying to get it into the cup, we realized that we need to get a sauce pan with a pour spout.  GoodWill here we come.  

    Finally I get to have it.  The first sip was really good.  Then I took a second sip and the aftertaste of coffee hit and that was really over powering.  Now we did half the amount of coffee because we knew we would not like the coffee taste.  I was not able to get past the taste even after mixing in all of the whipped cream. 

    Mom took the rest of mine and drank half of it, but sadly since she drinks herbal tea mostly the caffeine was just too much for her and gave her an upset stomach for the next few hours.  We think it was the instant coffee.  We will try this again and leave out the coffee.