Drinking Chocolate
$17.50
Local Spicery’s Drinking Chocolate! Available in a variety of flavors from October through May, while supplies last. Decadent, rich, and deeply satisfying! Blended from local craft-made chocolate and dark Belgian cocoa with a touch of coconut sugar. Delivers a deep, rich, slightly bitter chocolate flavor without too much sweetness and no dairy products. Sold in 6 ounce tins.
Directions: One rounded Tbsp to 6 oz heated milk of choice. Simmer while stirring until chocolate is melted & fully combined with milk. Strain into cup. An additional teaspoon of sugar makes a more traditional hot chocolate.
Flavors:
Classic Dark Hot Chocolate ~ Blended from local craft-made chocolate and dark Belgian cocoa. Delivers a deep, rich, slightly bitter chocolate flavor without too much sweetness. Hand-blended in small batches with: Tcho Dark Chocolate Crumbles [cacao, cane sugar, cocoa powder, cocoa butter, soy lecithin and vanilla], Callebaut Dutch Cocoa (cocoa powder), and palm sugar. Note: Tcho Dark Chocolate is packaged in a facility that also packages soy, milk and tree nut products.
Mexican ~ Spiced with cinnamon and Chile! Dairy-free, spicy, and decadent…
Seasonal Flavor ~ A spiced hot chocolate with a theme! We rotate this flavor throughout the cold season, keeping each as a limited time release. The current seasonal flavor is listed in the purchase options.
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Sonja –
I have the Drinking Chocolate with Gingerbread Spices and am obsessed! What a perfect, comforting blend for a cold, rainy day!