 On these cold wintery days, when you come inside with rosy cheeks and chilly fingers after shoveling the driveway and the sidewalk, there's nothing like warming up with a nice hot creamy cup of chocolate, hot chocolate. And you notice I'm calling this hot chocolate rather than hot cocoa because cocoa tends to be much sweeter and thinner and this is really chocolaty and nice and creamy. Now I'll show you how easy it is to make one cup of hot chocolate. I'm going to start by putting two tablespoons of semi-sweet chocolate morsels into a small sauce pot along with one tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa. So this is not cocoa mix that's pre-sweetened. This is baking cocoa and one tablespoon of sugar and then just a pinch of salt. I'll put those into the sauce pot and just mix it up a little bit and then I'm going, I've got one cup of milk ready to go but I'm just going to add about a quarter cup of this and mix it up before I put it over the heat. Then just put it over probably a medium low heat and add another quarter cup of milk and then I'm going to start heating it up and I'll just keep stirring it until all of the chocolate morsels melt and it just becomes nice smooth liquid. Once all the chocolate morsels have melted and the liquid is nice and smooth then you can add the remaining milk and just continue to heat until that chocolate is really nice and hot. Just before I pour my hot chocolate into my mug I'm going to add a quarter teaspoon of vanilla extract just mix that in and that brings out all the flavor gets everything nice and balanced and then I will carefully pour this into my mug. There we go. Mmm that smells so good. Now if you really want to smile when you drink your hot chocolate you can add a little marshmallow snowman to your mug. Just set them right on top and let those marshmallows start melting into the hot chocolate or you can top it with whipped cream too. So treat yourself to a cup of hot chocolate. I'm Sue Dodin sharing Good Food for Good Life 365.