Hot Chocolate - Yumeiro Patissiere - Recipe

Here in Brazil, the weather is starting to cool down. Nothing better than a great hot chocolate to warm up! This chocolate is creamy and velvety. Great to make when you have leftover chocolate from other recipes. The recipe comes from a 2010 brochure presented by pastry chef Sadaharu Aoki, who opened Pâtisserie Sadaharu Aoki Paris in the 6th arrondissement in 2001 after setting up his atelier there in 1998. He also worked as a food consultant on Yumeiro Pâtissière (夢色パティシエール), Natsumi Matsumoto's baking manga that became an anime in 2009. Let's see the recipe!

Ingredients

• 94 g of chocolate from a bar
• 200 ml of whole milk
• 200 g of cream
• 10 g of granulated sugar

Instructions

1. Chop the chocolate finely.
2. In a small saucepan, place all the ingredients and heat over low heat, stirring, until the chocolate melts.
3. Turn off the heat.
4. Pour into cups and serve.

Some tips

Chopping the chocolate makes it melt faster. If a film forms in the cup when serving the chocolate, you can remove it with a spoon. Keep the mixture below a boil so it stays smooth. Use any chocolate you want. If you want it less creamy, you can replace the amount of cream with more whole milk. The batch is small, about two cups.

If you want another dessert that shows up in anime pastry shops, there is a homemade strawberry cake on the site as well.