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No need for magic top hats to make Snowman Hot Chocolate! A few marshmallows, some pretzel sticks, and a little dash of creativity come together to create sugary sweet and fluffy snowmen taking a relaxing soak in your hot cocoa! The fact that the hot cocoa is a wonderfully creamy, luscious, and chocolatey brew made on your stovetop makes it all the better! Snowman Hot Chocolate will make you dance around in happiness!
No need for magic top hats to make Snowman Hot Chocolate! A few marshmallows, some pretzel sticks, and a little dash of creativity come together to create sugary sweet and fluffy snowmen taking a relaxing soak in your hot cocoa! The fact that the hot cocoa is a wonderfully creamy, luscious, and chocolatey brew made on your stovetop makes it all the better! Snowman Hot Chocolate will make you dance around in happiness!
Ingredients
For the hot chocolate:
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup baking cocoa
- salt to taste
- 1/3 cup hot water
- 4 cups milk
- 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the marshmallow snowmen:
- chocolate syrup to taste
- 12 regular-sized marshmallows divided
- mini butterscotch chips to taste, can substitute candy corn
- 16 pretzel sticks plus more, optional, to taste
Directions
- In a saucepan over high heat, add the sugar, the cocoa, the salt, and the water and cook, while stirring, until it comes to a boil.
- Cook the cocoa mixture, while stirring, until the sugar and the cocoa are both fully dissolved, about 2 minutes.
- Add the milk to the cocoa mixture and stir to combine.
- Heat the cocoa mixture until it reaches barely a simmer and reaches the desired serving temperature. Do not boil the cocoa mixture.
- Transfer the saucepan from the heat.
- Add the vanilla to the cocoa mixture and whisk to combine until frothy.
- Using the chocolate syrup, draw eyes and a mouth onto 4 of the marshmallows.
- Cut a slit in the middle of the face-decorated marhsmallows between the eyes and the mouth.
- Inserted 1 of the butterscotch chips into the slits in the face-decorated marshmallows, creating a "nose."
- Cut a slit in the back of the face-decorated marshmallows so the snowman can rest on the rim of the serving mugs easily.
- Add 2 dots of the syrup vertically down the center of 4 of the remaining marhsmallows, creating "buttons."
- Stick 2 of the pretzel sticks into the sides of each of the button-decorated marshmallows to create "arms."
- Press 2 of the remaining pretzel sticks into each of the remaining 4 marshmallows to create "legs."
- Add the hot cocoa mixture evenly into four serving mugs.
- Place 1 "head" marshmallow, 1 "body" marshmallow, and 1 "legs" marshmallow into each of the serving mugs. Optionally, you can use the extra pretzel sticks to skewer the marshmallows, helping to secure all the components together.
- Serve.
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