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What can I use Hot Chocolate Mix For?

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For many years, I added Hot Chocolate Mix to my morning coffee for an mocha drink.

I found something I like better,

Now I have a big canister of Hot Chocolate Mix and several packets of the mix.

Is there anything I can make to use this up?

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Hi Anne;
I'm curious what you replaced your morning mocha with?

Perhaps a food kitchen might use up the remainder of your coco.

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Breakfast Essentials, you know what was called Instant Breakfast years ago.

I drink weak coffee as I mix a half a cup with water, then add half a packet of Breakfast Essential.

It is for the vitamins and I feel this drink makes me feel a lot better.

It comes in two flavors, chocolate and vanilla.

I doubt a food kitchen would take the Hot Choc Mix because it is out of date and opened. I doubt if there are any of those around the boondocks.

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anything you like chocolate flavored, you can use hot chocolate mix instead of cocoa powder. I've made cake, cookies, brownies etc using the local equivalent (think Nestle Quik kind of powder).
Keep in mind it's probably about 25-30% cocoa, the remainder is going to be sugar and maybe powdered milk, depending on the composition, you can measure out and figure out how much sugar to deduct from the recipe.
Personally, chocolate pudding is how i would use it. Figure out how many packets work for the amount of milk you'd be putting into cornstarch pudding, mix it up and adjust the sugar accordingly. The rest, I have a mexican hot chocolate snickerdoodle cookie recipe that would probably use it pretty well.

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Someone asked the same question over on Reddit.

Folks gave them a recipe for Brownies. Another person said the Hot chocolate mix can be added to cake batter to make it a richer tasting.

I bet it could be added to any recipe that calls for chocolate and milk.

I may try coming up with a recipe for making fudge with the mix.

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Back when I was in boy scouts, I took a trip to Philmont scout ranch, where we did 50 miles of backpacking over 10 days. We ate hot chocolate powder straight out of the packet and called it hiker's crack. It was a good shot of sugar at the end of a long day.

It was fine as a 14 year old boy, as a 37 year old man, I don't know that I'd still do it.

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I found a recipe for Fudge Sauce so maybe I can tweak that into Fudge by cooking it longer:

https://www.food.com/recipe/hot-chocolate-fudge-sauce-83923

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James Bridger wrote:We ate hot chocolate powder straight out of the packet.... It was a good shot of sugar at the end of a long day.

It was fine as a 14 year old boy, as a 37 year old man, I don't know that I'd still do it.

This got me through my last year of college (when I was working 3 jobs, writing a thesis, and one of my workplaces had a free coffee/tea/cocoa station)-- occasionally I'd add the tiniest bit of hot water and make a paste, which was horrible and glorious. Today my teeth scream just thinking about it.

I think fudge sounds great. It also can be mixed with peanut butter to make another teeth-screaming treat....

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