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It's June, but it's rainy, windy, and cold here and feeling like a
sleepy day. Nelle's been down for some pretty good naps today so while
I've had plenty of opportunity to get stuff done, I've been feeling like
enjoying the laziness instead.
A perfect day for hot cocoa.
One thing about rice milk, though, is that it doesn't provide the
thickness that whole milk does for hot cocoa. And the non-dairy
Ah!laska mix,
while better than nothing, is more like a cheap mix-with-water hot
chocolate packet than the more quality chocolates that I'm used to.
When I made the chocolate chip cookies the other day I looked up the
Tollhouse recipe online to modify. A few of the suggestions said to add a
packet of instant vanilla pudding to make them soft. I hadn't really
thought about using pudding mix for anything but making pudding before.
But from previous research I knew the stuff to be vegan and I happened
to have some cook&serve variety on hand.
I heated up the rice milk and added 3 heaping spoon fulls of the cocoa
powder and then added another spoon full of pudding mix. Now for the
topping. As a vegetarian I avoid gelatin, one of the base ingredients of
marshmallows, but thankfully marshmallow fluff does not contain
gelatin.
Yum! It was thick and creamy and delicious, just like hot chocolate is
supposed to be. Take that milk/soy free diet doubting self!
Re: MSPI perfect hot cocoa