Nutella Hot Chocolate

The other night I was craving chocolate and we had NONE in the apartment.  None. Zip. Zero. Zilch.  Except for Nutella.  I love Nutella and was considering eating a spoonful of it just because I wanted something chocolaty that badly.  I  realized that was kind of disgusting and then I remembered seeing something on Pinterest (surprised?) about nutella hot chocolate.  It was cold out and I wanted chocolate.  It seemed perfect.  I then searched on Pinterest for the pin I saw previously and found a recipe that called for stuff like melting chocolate chunks, measuring out the nutella (measure? do you not know how sticky Nutella is?), sacrificing the blood of a virgin, etc, and I thought it was too much work for freaking hot chocolate.  Then I saw a recipe that called for Nutella and milk. That's my kind of recipe, let me tell you....2 ingredients.  I don't always have ingredients in my arsenal, but I did have Nutella in the cupboard and milk in the fridge.

This is what you'll need for my version of Nutella hot chocolate. Nutella (duh), unsweetened cocoa powder, milk, and a saucepan.

First, I measured out 10 ounces of skim milk, AKA one cup and 2 ounces of milk, and poured it in the sauce pan.  Then I scooped about three and a half spoonfuls of Nutella and put it in the milk.

 I knew that much Nutella would make the hot chocolate SUPER chocolatey so I decided to add 1 tsp of unsweetened cocoa powder to attempt to dial back the sweetness on the Nutella but not take away from the chocolatey taste.

Taa Daa!!!!

Turn the burner on to about medium heat and just whisk all the ingredients together until smooth and hot.  It will probably take a few minutes for the Nutella to melt but all the ingredients do blend together beautifully. The hot chocolate was REALLY good, really chocolatey and definitely satisfied my chocolate craving. I highly suggest making Nutella hot chocolate whether you follow my "recipe" or make up one of your own.

Now, the most exciting thing to me about hot chocolate is the mug it's going in.  I have a weird love of mugs and I like buying mugs as souvenirs because they are a useful AND remind me of places I've been.  I've been re-obsessed with Harry Potter lately and decided to use my Harry Potter mug.  

You might ask where I got my fantastic mug and I will tell you to watch the minute-long video to find out.  Please don't mind the spilling...I always spill.

  Until next time...Fire Away!

P.S.  If you didn't watch the video, I got my magical mug at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at Universal Studios, Orlando.  Any Potterhead NEEDS to go there and I plan on going back again sometime in my life.