Description
Enjoy this hot chocolate well past Christmas.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 cups whole milk or heavy cream (for a richer drink)
- 4 fingers or wedges of Mexican chocolate, available online or in the Mexican section of your supermarket*
- 1 tbsp brown sugar
- 1/8 tsp cayenne pepper
- 1/8 tsp ancho chili powder
- ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- ½ tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup tequila blanco
- 4 cinnamon sticks or 4 whole dried ancho chilis for garnish
Instructions
- Combine the milk, chocolate, brown sugar, cayenne, chili powder, cinnamon, and vanilla in a saucepan over medium heat, whisking until the chocolate dissolves. It may take five minutes or longer.
- Watch to make sure the milk doesn’t boil over. Pour two ounces of tequila into each of four mugs and add the hot chocolate when it’s heated through.
- Garnish with a cinnamon stick or a whole dried chili.