{"id":213,"date":"2009-12-09T17:27:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T01:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/?p=213"},"modified":"2022-10-20T14:23:39","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:23:39","slug":"drink-to-your-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/chocolate-recipes\/drink-to-your-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Drink to your health"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"This
This little square (2.5×2.5 approx.) makes 4 delicious cups.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

UPDATE: Sipping Dreams is closed.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t get to Angelina’s in Paris<\/a> to enjoy a cup of hot chocolate l’Africain, we can recommend a worthy make-it-yourself substitute: Sipping Dreams Drinking Chocolate.<\/p>\n

Sipping Dreams<\/strong> is an Oregon company whose hot chocolate has a San Francisco connection: They only use Guittard<\/a><\/strong> 72% dark chocolate to make their drinking chocolate.<\/p>\n

Hot chocolate is NOT the same as hot cocoa, which is a powdered mixture of cocoa, sugar and miscellaneous ingredients dissolved in hot milk (or water, in the case of instant hot cocoa) that most Americans grew up drinking topped with puffy, white marshmallows.<\/p>\n

Drinking chocolate is more like drinking a melted chocolate bar, and looking at the package of Sipping Dreams drinking chocolate, you can see that’s not far from the truth:<\/p>\n

\"Sipping
Sipping Dreams unwrapped: Each block is made by hand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Although Sipping Dreams is only available online here in the Bay Area, the 4 Chocolateers of CBTB have enjoyed cups of it and can recommend it. And it’s easy to make:<\/p>\n

Sipping chocolate, step-by-step<\/h3>\n
\"Chop
(Optionally) Chop the chocolate block into chunks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Add
Add the chocolate (chopped or solid block) to warmed whole milk thinned with a little water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Drink
Drink taking shape.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"After
After stirring constantly, the milk barely beings to boil. Time to pour.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Hot
Hot chocolate is not like hot cocoa: A little goes a long way.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A chocolate bar worth drinking<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[1473,6,40,62,25,31,39],"class_list":["post-213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chocolate-recipes","tag-closed","tag-darkchocolate","tag-drinking-chocolate","tag-guittard","tag-hot-chocolate","tag-online-store","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35432,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213\/revisions\/35432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chocolatebythebay.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}