Our family hates coffee. We hate it. All of us hate it. But we love, love, love hot chocolate. Especially if it's cold outside, there's a fire in the fireplace, and you happen to be dressed in a flannel nightie listening to Christmas music. It's really exceptional then! So, that's what we've been doing as often as possible. This is the #1 hot chocolate mix recipe, and it makes a fabulous gift!
The yummiest-chocolatiest-creamiest hot chocolate mix ever!
Mix thoroughly--
1 cup powdered milk
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup hot chocolate mix (we use Swiss Miss packages)
1/4 cup mint chocolate chips (these look like Andes mints chopped up into little pieces)
1/2 cup mini marshmellows (but you can use more, because we've done it!)
Store in airtight container. Use 2/3 cup boiling water for every 1/3 cup mix. Makes 8 servings. We like to give a Ball jar full of mix to our friends... but first we tie a pretty fabric bow around it (with instructions for preparation on a cute little hang tag)!
The past few days around here have been pretty busy. In typical Long fashion, we've started about 5 dozen projects that we'd love to finish in the next couple of weeks. Ahem. By the grace of God, we continue to plug away! Hopefully we'll have a fun project ready to post in the near future.
So our question to you is, what are you doing for Christmas? Do you give a lot of handmade gifts?
What a cute idea! I can't wait to try out your hot cocoa recipe. We love hot cocoa also and drink it often when our cows are giving an abundance of milk! :)
Posted by: Meredith | December 06, 2008 at 07:25 PM
Great recipe!! Our family loves Hot Cocoa as well :) I'll try to make this tonight...
--Mia from www.aspiring-homemaker.blogspot.com
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Posted by: Emily | December 07, 2008 at 03:10 PM
YUMMY! Can't wait to make this for myself and to give as gifts!
Posted by: jamie heller | December 07, 2008 at 05:30 PM
WOW, this is AMAZING!! :) I love it. When I saw the recipe I knew it'd be great, so today I made sure to pick up several bags of the Andes pieces, and just mixed up a double batch and made me a cup of it. Oh my it is so very good. :) Thanks for the recipe. And, you didn't specify, so I figured you meant just regular white sugar, but without even thinking I put in powdered sugar, cause that's what we use in another recipe. Have to try it the other way as well, or when we don't have powdered sugar! Thanks SO MUCH for the recipe. It ought to make some cute & good Christmas gifts around here for our family & frieinds - what a great idea! I love homemade gifts but sometimes just don't know what to do.
- Ruth Ann
Posted by: Ruth Ann | December 08, 2008 at 02:59 PM
I am definitely going to do this! What an easy AND yummy gift idea! I am a coffee lover, but who doesn't like hot chocolate?! Thank you for sharing!
PS. I'm absolutely loving my red Laraine bag, btw! It has the perfect amount of space, and the pockets are so useful, too! Thanks again!
Posted by: Aileen | December 10, 2008 at 02:22 PM
I love the bow on the jar! It is so cute :) I will try this recipe too :)
I always new ideas for homemade gifts. I would say that I give some osrt of homemade gift 90% of the time. I love to sew, so I can usually come up with something :) I do have quite a bit of time though (or I make time) so I try to help my family out with gift giving too so that they don'nt have to spend so much money.
Posted by: Lynn | December 11, 2008 at 11:47 AM
I didn't think about adding the mini marshmallows. Thanks for the tip. :) Merry Christmas.
Posted by: gahome2mom | December 17, 2008 at 11:18 AM
Can't wait to try it! Looks so yummy! BTW, were they quart jars? I am going to make these for gifts this year.:)
~Heather
Posted by: Heather Simpson | December 08, 2011 at 08:28 PM