This Café Angelina’s Hot Chocolate recipe includes milk, heavy cream and chocolate for a thick and indulgent hot chocolate that will quickly transport you to Paris.
This drink is so thick you feel you’re drinking liquid chocolate and it’s this way because it has really chocolate melted through minimal cream and milk. This Angelina Paris cafe hot chocolate is also so thick that when it cools its basically chocolate pudding without cornstarch or flour in sight thanks to that cream so is this also perfect cold!
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Why you'll love this
So thick!!
This Chocolat L’Africain is the thickest hot chocolate you might ever make at home and it’s rich like liquid chocolate, but this is dessert in a cup!
Lucious chocolate
Real chocolate is used here, no cocoa powder or hot chocolate mix - real proper chocolate and you can taste it!
Chocolate pudding
If this lasts long enough to cool completely, it turns into lucious chocolate pudding.
Ingredients and substitutions for Café Angelina’s Hot Chocolate
- Cream: Heavy cream was used here thanks to being super thick and more luxurious but pouring cream would be perfect as well.
- Milk: Full fat dairy milk was used here and you could substitute with non dairy milk or skim milk
- Chocolate: 56% dark chocolate was used here because this is less sweet and higher quality.
- Sugar: Superfine or caster sugar is used here because of how easily it dissolves and keeps our mixture smooth. The original recipe uses confectioner’s or icing sugar and
- Salt: Sea salt or kosher salt was used here, this gives the hot chocolate depth of flavor, but is completely optional.
See recipe card for quantities.
How to make Café Angelina’s Hot Chocolate:
Heat the dairy: Heat the milk, cream and sugar on medium heat, until bubbling start at the edges of your saucepan.
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Add the chocolate: Remove from the heat and toss in the chocolate, whisking to melt.
Return to the heat: Whisk until no lumps of chocolate remain.
Pour: Into your serving cups.
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Finish: Finish with a sprinkle of salt over and a tablespoon of whipped cream, if you prefer.
Serve: Drink up!
Equipment needed to make this
Grater, peeler or mandolin: We need nice fine shards or pieces of chocolate here so one of these will help give you the nice fine pieces that will melt easily and swiftly!
Saucepan: A small saucepan is best here because you don’t need much to create these!
Whisk: A whisk will help you create a nice smooth thick hot chocolate.
FAQ's for the best Café Angelina’s Hot Chocolate
As this cools it will firm up to more of a pudding, so this is best made just prior to serving, though you could finely chop the chocolate well ahead and keep it covered in a container.
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Cafe Angelina’s Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 123 grams / ½ cup milk
- 120 grams / ½ cup heavy cream
- 30 grams / 2 tablespoons superfine/caster sugar
- 140 grams / 4.93 ounces dark chocolate finely chopped (see equipment section)
- ¼ teaspoon sea salt optional
- ¼ cup soft peaks whipped cream optional
Instructions
- Place the milk, cream and sugar into a saucepan on medium heat, until bubbling start to form on the edges of your pan.
- Remove and decrease the temperature, add in the chocolate and whisk to melt.
- Return to the heat until the mixture is a beautiful chocolate color and no lumps of chocolate remain.
- Remove from the heat and pour into your serving cups.
- Sprinkle the salt over and top with a tablespoon of whipped cream, if your prefer.
- Drink up!
Notes
- Chocolate: 56% dark chocolate was used here because this is less sweet and higher quality.
- Cream: Heavy cream was used here thanks to being super thick and more luxurious but pouring cream would be perfect as well.
- Grater, peeler or mandolin: We need nice fine shards or pieces of chocolate here so one of these will help give you the nice fine pieces that will melt easily and swiftly!
- Best made fresh: As this cools it will firm up to more of a pudding, so this is best made just prior to serving, though you could finely chop the chocolate well ahead and keep it covered in a container.
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Made it and loved it?
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Rina
What is the salt used for? It's in the list of ingredients but not included in any of the steps.
Sylvie Taylor
Hi Rina, apologies for that error, the salt is an optional ingredient and the recipe has been amended to include it. Thanks for mentioning and hope you enjoy it!