This Christmas I gave homemade hot
chocolate for the second year. Last year it seemed to be a hit, so I
decided to do it again, but I also wanted to step it up a notch. So I
added very cute (and yummy) peppermint marshmallows!
This was probably one of the easiest
homemade gifts I've ever given, but that doesn't mean it wasn't also
delicious (I may have taste-tested one or four times...) If you want
to give it a try, here's what you'll need:
An empty glass jar (I just saved my
pasta jars, washed them, and used Goo-Gone to get rid of the sticky
label stuff on the outside)
1 cup baking cocoa
1 cup sugar
1 cup powdered milk
½ tsp salt
Jumbo marshmallows (I put 4-6 in each
bag)
chocolate chips for melting
crushed peppermint candies
To make the cocoa I just layered the
powder ingredients in the glass jar. I glued cute paper to the lid to
make it festive and attached the recipe:
“Add 1 cup hot water to 1/3 cup mix”
If you're like me you can add ½ cup
mix.
To make the marshmallows, I melted the
chocolate chips in a microwave-safe bowl in 20-second increments to
make sure it didn't burn. Then I rolled a marshmallow in the
chocolate, and then rolled it in the crushed peppermints. I set the
marshmallows on a chilled plate to set, then packed them in these
handy-dandy treat bags I found on sale!
The end result was very cute:
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