Hot Cocoa or Hot Chocolate? With or without marshmallows?

[gruntlabor]

I don’t even drink but today this ^^^^ sounds good.

Whiskey is not what we've been brought up to believe! Whiskey, good whiskey, is powerful injun medicine. Goodbye colds and flu, goodbye pain and troubles. Hello there, been around here long?

 

[PeppermintPatty]

Whiskey is not what we've been brought up to believe! Whiskey, good whiskey, is powerful injun medicine. Goodbye colds and flu, goodbye troubles. Hello there, been around here long?

Isn’t that what hot toddies are made from?
A lot of people swear by them?

 

[LadyEmeraude]

I'd like a hot toddie about now, but nothing available...

 

[LoveTulips]

Hot cocoa or chocolate with whipped cream only.

 

[jujube]

Oh, I swear by a hot toddy. It will heal the lame and raise the dead......or at least make you not care if you're lame or dead...LOL.

 

[Bella]

I prefer hot chocolate to cocoa with whole milk, no sugar added, and a splash of vanilla extract topped with a few mini marshmallows.

 

[Gary O']

For me it's hot cocoa with melted marshmallows

That's good
but
If there's hot chocolate (or hot cocoa)
We're dunking toast loaded with Adam's peanut butter

 

[Tommy]

For me it's hot cocoa with melted marshmallows

For me as well, but I haven't seen marshmallows that will actually melt for years now.

 

[stretch5881]

I don't drink alcohol, but 1 cold day after coming in from working outside, a friend handed me a cup of hot chocolate with a splash of butterscotch rum. That was really tasty and warmed me up in 2 ways.

 

[gruntlabor]

That's good
but
If there's hot chocolate (or hot cocoa)
We're dunking toast loaded with Adam's peanut butter

Oh God! To die for.
Also cinnamon toast, dunked

 

[Michael Z]

Hot cocoa, but not from a mix. Cocoa, sugar, mixed well and heated with some water and then some milk or almond milk and salt (important!) to taste. Yes, (real, not dried) marshmallows if available.

To cut down on the sugar, mix half and half with strong coffee!

 

[LadyEmeraude]

That's good
but
If there's hot chocolate (or hot cocoa)
We're dunking toast loaded with Adam's peanut butter

@ Gary O Dunking toast load with Adam's peanut butter!
Now there is a combo LOL

 

[LadyEmeraude]

For me as well, but I haven't seen marshmallows that will actually melt for years now.

Why won't the marshmallows melt though @ Tommy

 

[LadyEmeraude]

I don't drink alcohol, but 1 cold day after coming in from working outside, a friend handed me a cup of hot chocolate with a splash of butterscotch rum. That was really tasty and warmed me up in 2 ways.

Butterscotch rum, oh that sounds sooo good! I've not had rum for two years probably,
love a hot butter rum @ Stretch5881 a little in a cup of hot chocolate sounds very good.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

Hot cocoa, but not from a mix. Cocoa, sugar, mixed well and heated with some water and then some milk or almond milk and salt (important!) to taste. Yes, (real, not dried) marshmallows if available.

To cut down on the sugar, mix half and half with strong coffee!

@ Michael Z real marshmallows, soft and fluffy ones
half strong coffee and half hot cocoa etc, sounds like a perfect mix.
Almond milk has a good taste too imo.

 

[gruntlabor]

Hot cocoa, but not from a mix. Cocoa, sugar, mixed well and heated with some water and then some milk or almond milk and salt (important!) to taste. Yes, (real, not dried) marshmallows if available.

To cut down on the sugar, mix half and half with strong coffee!

Yes! The reason we mix the cocoa and sugar is because otherwise the cocoa won't combine but will simply lump up. And the reason we start with a little water is because we should never boil milk (unless used medicinally). The milk is added last, and heated.

 

[LadyEmeraude]

RUM is on my mind

 

[Murrmurr]

Hot chocolate; definitely marshmallows.
Hot cocoa, never marshmallows. Spices instead. I like a dash of pepper and/or a cinnamon stick in mine.

 

[That Lady in PA]

Cocoa... never marshmallows, sometimes whipped cream.

 

[Katherine]

Hot cocoa with whip cream (no marshmallows)

 

[Tommy]

Why won't the marshmallows melt though @ Tommy

My guess would be that they changed the recipe, possible to increase shelf life(?).

A long time ago, it seems, marshmallows in hot cocoa would melt to a sweet, thick, very sticky mass. More recently (and admittedly a few years back), the marshmallows seem to more or less dissolve from the outside, leaving the centers substantially unchanged until the whole marshmallow dissolved.

This seems to be the case with both Kraft and store brand marshmallows.