This warm, frothy, sweet hot chocolate drink is by far my favorite hot chocolate drink.  We have it every year after church services on Christmas Eve with Baked North Pole.  To make it go much faster, we slowly heat the milk in a crockpot while we are at church.  That way it is ready to drink when we get home.

Ingredients:

• 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate pieces
• 1/2 cup corn syrup
• 1/2 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/2 teaspoon crème de cacao
• 1 pint heavy whipping cream
• 2 quarts milk
• cinnamon sticks

Directions:

• Over low heat, melt the chocolate with corn syrup and water and place in a bowl in refrigerator until cool.
• After chocolate mixture is cool, add vanilla.
• The chocolate mixture may be prepared early in the day or the day before.
• Roughly an hour before serving, whip the cream, adding chocolate mixture as you whip.  When done, you will have mounds of heavy chocolate.
• Put the chocolate cream in a punch bowl and refrigerate.
• Before serving, heat the milk until scalding, and place in a coffee urn or heat milk in crockpot.
• To serve, put the milk and the punch bowl of chocolate on serving table.  Fill each person’s cup 1/2 to 3/4 full of chocolate.  Next add milk to dissolve the chocolate.  Allow guest to serve their own with a cinnamon stick.

Serves 20

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