Cool winter days are an excellent time to enjoy hot chocolate on a terrace or balcony decorated in an atmospheric spirit. For a wonderful table decoration, you can use Christmas Roses in thick-walled stoneware pots and decorated with ceramic stars.
Recipe for Christmas hot chocolate:
150 g dark chocolate; 50 g milk chocolate, finely chopped; 450 ml whole milk; 1 cinnamon stick; 5 cardamom pods; 100 g whipping cream; 1 sachet vanilla sugar Chocolate shavings, mini marshmallows, ground cinnamon
Here's how to make it: gently heat the milk while stirring in a pan together with the chopped chocolate until the chocolate has completely dissolved. Add cinnamon stick and cardamom pods and keep simmering for about five minutes. Keep well stirred. In the meantime, whip the cream until stiff, gradually adding the vanilla sugar. Strain the hot chocolate into cups, top with whipped cream using a spoon or piping bag and decorate with chocolate shavings, spices, mini marshmallows and a pinch of ground cinnamon.
