How to make your own Hot Chocolate from nibs

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How to Make Your Own Hot Chocolate Mix

Did you know you can make your own hot chocolate mix?

As in, grind cacao nibs to a fine powder, then mix them with milk and sugar for an out-of-this-world hot chocolate-y experience?

You can. And surprisingly, it’s not that

hard. I’m going to show you how. All you need is a bag of cacao nibs, a

food processor, and coffee grinder.

This article has 3 parts

Part 1: Explains a little about cacao beans and how chocolate is made

Part 2: Shows you how to grind your own hot chocolate powder from cacao nibs

Part 3: Gives you a recipe for turning that hot chocolate powder into a luxurious hot drink

Homemade hot chocolate mix makes a

fabulously thoughtful and unique holiday gift for folks you really,

really like. Pack some up with a bag of gourmet marshmallows and a pair

of nice mugs for a tidy little gift basket.

The final hot chocolate is fragrant with fresh, rich chocolate and flecked with small specks of ground cacao nib.

Here’s my homemade cocoa powder:

Part 1: All about the cacao nib

Alright, back up, Mouse. Just what is a cacao nib, anyway?

Cacao nibs are what chocolate is made of. They’re literally little pieces of cacao bean.

For scale, here’s a cacao nib on my fingertip:

Whole cacao beans grow inside cacao pods, like these:

Here’s the inside of the cacao pod. The cacao seeds are encased in white. (Kind of gross looking, I know.)

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