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Rich, creamy, and with a great presentation, this Salted Hot Chocolate recipe is a lovely romantic dessert to share with a loved one.
Chocolate is almost always associated with romance. It’s just sexy. The rich, luxurious, slightly sweet dark chocolate is my favorite. I love it as a deep dark chocolate ice cream, chopped up in my Caramel Coconut Icebox Cake, or even as a lovely sauce to pour all over…well, anything (or anyone) you’d like.
My mind is obviously someplace else, but chocolate and romance do have a long history together, so you can’t blame me.
This Salted Hot Chocolate recipe comes from The Detroit News Menu Cook Book published in 1933. It’s basically a rich chocolate sauce that has steaming hot milk added to it. The original doesn’t call for nearly as much salt as I used, but me being the salt fiend that I am, I had to transform it into a salted hot chocolate.
Other than adding the salt it needed (at least in my mind), I followed the recipe as written and it worked well. That was kind of a surprise to me because the step where you melt the unsweetened chocolate in water seemed odd…but it worked just fine!
While hot chocolate can be quite romantic on its own, the presentation of this Salted Hot Chocolate brings the romance factor up a few notches. Present your date with the chocolate sauce and the milk in individual pitchers and slowly combine the two in dainty tea cups. I’m sure they’ll appreciate it and I hope you all have a fantastic Valentine’s Day, lovingly attached or blissfully single.
TIPS
If you only have sweetened chocolate on hand, of course you can substitute it for the unsweetened…only if you reduce the amount of sugar called for.
Have a little extra flake salt nearby when serving. Topping off the whipped cream with a little pinch is a lovely addition the recipe.
I used Maldon Salt for this recipe. I always have a ton in my cabinet from work, but even if I didn’t get it for free, it’s still my salt of choice.
Recipe
Salted Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
Whipped Cream
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1 tablespoon powdered sugar
Salted Chocolate Sauce
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate chopped
- ½ cup cold water
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 ½ teaspoons flake salt
- 3 cups milk
Instructions
- For the whipped cream, combine cream and powdered sugar.
- Using your tool of choice (whisk, hand/stand mixer, food processor, etc.) whip to stiff peaks. Cover and refrigerate.
- For the salted chocolate sauce, set-up an ice bath.
- Place chopped chocolate and cold water in a medium pot.
- Over medium heat, constantly stir until chocolate has melted.
- Reduce heat to low and whisk until smooth.
- Add sugar and salt and continue to whisk until sugar has melted, about 3 minutes.
- Transfer the sauce to the ice bath and whisk until chilled.
- Fold in ½ cup of the whipped cream.
- To serve, heat milk using any method you like, and combine ¼ cup of the salted chocolate sauce with ½ cup of milk. Stir well.
- Top with a large spoonful of the remaining whipped cream and, if you like, a small sprinkle of flake salt.
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