Mom’s Mexican Hot Chocolate

For as long as I can remember, my mom always baked cookies and made a pot of Mexican Hot Chocolate every year as a treat for us to have while decorating our Christmas tree. I think my Dad and I would actually start out making the chocolate chip cookies, but after we’d had enough of the raw cookie dough, we we would let my mom bake the rest. 🙂

Here’s my mom’s recipe:

Fill a large pot a little over halfway with water, add a cinnamon stick and bring to a boil

After water is boiling, scoop 1 cup of the boiling water into a glass measuring cup and add in 2.5 Tablespoons of Baking Cocoa Powder (she uses Hershey’s) and stir so that you have a chocolate liquid.

Add chocolate liquid back into the pot of boiling water, and lower the temperature to Medium, and let it boil for 5 minutes, keep stirring.

Add 1.5 cups of granulated sugar, let it boil for 5 more minutes, keep stirring

Add a can of evaporated milk, and 1 or 2 cans of fresh milk, then let simmer for 2 minutes

Turn off the fire, stir, then use a hand mixer to whip it up (I used my immersion blender with the whisk attachment).

We like to add marshmallows or whipped cream!