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Black Spire Hot Chocolate

Docking Bay 7 Food and Cargo, Disneyland
Black Spire Outpost is home to some of the roughest thugs, smugglers, gangsters, and bounty hunters in the galaxy. But even ruffians like to kick off their boots ona cold winter’s day and sip some hot chocolate with out-of-this-world purple whipped cream on top. The smooth hint of brown sugar in the chocolate,alongside the cream, will have your friends asking what your secret is. You cantell them, or play it close to the chest, because you’re the mob boss of yourown kitchen! Black Spire Hot Chocolate is a holiday offering at Disneyland, butcan be whipped up in your kitchen any time of year.
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Servings: 4
Course: Drinks
Ingredients Equipment Method Notes

Ingredients
  

For Hot Chocolate
  • 3½ cups whole milk
  • ⅓ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 cup granulated sugar
  • ⅛ tsp salt
  • ⅓ cup water
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 4 tbsp brown sugar light
  • ½ cup half-and-half
For Brown Sugar Whipped Cream
  • 6 oz heavy whipping cream
  • ¼ cup brown sugar light
  • ⅛ tsp salt
  • 1 tsp vanilla extract
  • 2 drops purple gel food color

Equipment

  • Medium saucepan
  • Stand mixer

Method
 

  1. To make Hot Chocolate: In a medium sauce-pan over medium heat, combine milk, cocoa powder, granulated sugar, salt, water, vanilla, and brown sugar. Stir continuously until well mixed and hot, about 5-10 minutes. Pour into four large cups or mugs and add ⅛ cup half-and-half to each.
  2. To make Brown Sugar Whipped Cream: Combine cream, brown sugar, and salt in the bowl of a stand mixer and beat until stiff peaks form, about 3-5 minutes. Mix in vanilla and food color until well combined. Pipe or scoop ¼ cup whipped cream onto each mug. Serve immediately.

Notes

Excerpted from The Unofficial Disney Parks Drink Recipe Book by Ashley Craft. Copyright © 2021 by Ashley Craft. Photography by Harper Point Photography. Used with permission of the publisher, Adams Media, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. This recipe is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by The Walt Disney Company. This recipe was not provided by The Walt Disney Company, its subsidiaries, or affiliates. The recipe is solely the creation of the author and embodies her most successful effort to replicate the drink upon which it is based.