This Boozy Hot Chocolate with Peppermint is a warm and cozy drink for adults made with unsweetened cocoa, Ghirardelli chocolate syrup, chocolate liquor, and peppermint Vodka.
Boozy Peppermint Mocha
Table of contents
- ❤️ Why you'll love it
- 🥘 Equipment
- 🧾 Ingredients
- 🍳 How to Make
- 🥄 Variations
- 🍽️ What to Serve With
- 🍶 Storing
- 💭Tip for Making the Perfect
- ❔FAQs
- 📖More Recipes
❤️ Why you'll love it
Sometimes the adults need a special drink that makes them feel good inside. And, with times throughout the year when we have heavy snow storms, it's a must to have a warm and cozy beverage! You will love this recipe not only because of that, but it is rich and creamy and so simple to make!
🧾 Ingredients
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- Cocoa
- Ghirardelli Chocolate Syrup
- Sugar
- Ground cinnamon
- Sea salt
- Water
- Milk
- Heavy cream
- Peppermint extract
- Peppermint Vodka
- Chocolate Liquor
🍳 How to Make
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Add the cocoa, sugar, cinnamon, salt, and water into a saucepan and combine on medium-high heat.
Pour in the milk, Ghirardelli, and cream and combine until warm. Take off the heat and add the extract.
Pour in the alcohol and combine before adding into mugs and serving with whipped cream and peppermint candies if desired.
Hint: It is best to use a whisk to mix your ingredients so that they are thoroughly combined and there are no clumps of cocoa mix.
🥄 Variations
You can choose to make a few altercations to this recipe if you would like. You can use some of the options below for more flavor.
- Instead of peppermint extract, you can keep it out or use vanilla instead.
- I sometimes use dark cocoa mix instead of regular.
- Add any toppings you like! I use whipped cream and peppermint candies, but you can add chocolate syrup, caramel syrup, chocolate shavings, etc.
🍽️ What to Serve With
This recipe is a must to serve with things like cookies, cakes, pies, and more. This would be the perfect drink for dessert and would complement so many tasty recipes like:
- Pumpkin Spice Latte Cookies
- Melted Snowman Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Dip
- Lemon Poppy Seed Coffee Cake
- Slow Cooker Lava Cake Recipe
🍶 Storing
You can store this boozy hot chocolate in mason jars to make sure they are sealed tight! The chance of you having any leftovers is pretty slim to none because of how good it is!
Refrigerator Storage: This can keep in the fridge for up to 3 days.
Reheat: You can warm up in the microwave or on the stovetop.
💭Tip for Making the Perfect
I like to use these helpful tips to make the perfect hot cocoa recipes!
- If you want richer hot chocolate, you can add in more chocolate syrup or top it with some mini chocolate chips.
- You can add a dash of cinnamon for even more flavor!
❔FAQs
This is an adult version of hot chocolate because it contains alcohol like peppermint vodka and chocolate liquor.
You can try this recipe with other peppermint and chocolate brands of alcohol or just use regular vodka and liquor with no flavoring, but it does help!
All you need to do is remove the alcohol and it will be ok for kids!
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This Boozy Hot Chocolate with Peppermint is a warm and cozy drink for adults made with unsweetened cocoa, Ghirardelli chocolate syrup, chocolate liquor, and peppermint Vodka.
- ½ cup cocoa unsweetened
- 2 tablespoon Ghirardelli Chocolate Syrup
- ½ cup sugar granulated
- ¼ teaspoon cinnamon ground
- ⅛ teaspoon sea salt
- ½ cup water
- 3 ½ cups milk
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ teaspoon peppermint extract
- 6 oz Peppermint Vodka
- 4 oz Chocolate Liquor
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In a medium saucepan add the cocoa, sugar, cinnamon, salt, and water. Stir until combined. Heat on medium to high heat, until boiling, stirring constantly.
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Reduce heat to medium, and add in the milk, Ghiradelli, and cream. Stir to combine. Continue to heat the mixture until warm. Remove from the heat and stir in the peppermint extract. Set to the side.
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Add all liquors. Stir to combine. Pour into large mugs, and top with whipped cream and peppermint candies, if desired.
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