TEST KITCHEN: 5 ways to use your hot chocolate powder
Much more than our favourite sweet and smooth chocolatey drink, our 45% Hot Chocolate Powder has a range of uses as wide as the tin that it sits in. Crafted with the finest flavour Caribbean cocoa, it there to be sipped and eaten in equal measures.
Of course, here at Islands, our go-to use is our best ever Hot Chocolate recipe. But if you’re a home baker, a caffeine connoisseur, or simply a chocolate fanatic, we’ve got 5 delicious ways to use your 45% Hot Chocolate Powder — beyond the mug!
best ever hot chocolate
First and foremost, we had to start off with our Best Ever Hot Chocolate using our 45% Hot Chocolate Powder. Quick, easy and a rich chocolate flavour your rarely get with powder.
Enjoy it hot and as it comes, or level up your hot chocolate game with some whipped cream, cocoa powder or even some marshmallows.
MOCHA
We continue to be baffled by the contradiction of the average mocha. When the utmost care, attention and consideration has been placed on procuring and crafting a coffee, it should follow suit that every other ingredient with that coffee should equate in standard and quality.
We're here to rectify that, curating the ultimate coffee-chocolate pairing list for magnificent mochas, with hot chocolates that rise to the challenge of specialty coffee.
45% Iced Chocolate
The rays are beaming down. Your vitamin D is getting a much needed top up, as well as your tan. You still need your chocolate fix, but it seems wrong in this heat. We’re here to say it’s most definitely RIGHT.
Create the most delicious, barista-grade iced chocolate for the perfect summer cooler.
75% Dark Chocolate Brownies
Brownies. A recipe synonymous with chocolate, and rightly so. We tested hundreds of recipes to crown this one KING.
However, the recipe can’t take full credit! It’s the beautiful balance of natural cocoa acidity celebrated in our 75% Dark Chocolate Buttons and our 45% Hot Chocolate Powder which perfectly balances with the outrageous quantities of butter and sugar required for the ultimate brownie indulgence. You’re welcome world!
75% Dark Triple Chocolate Cookies
When one chocolate simply isn’t enough, use two.
These gluten-free morsels of chocolate heaven are the perfect vessel for enjoying the intensity of our 75% Dark Chocolate Buttons alongside the ultra-creaminess of our 37% White Chocolate Buttons! The dough is also very happy sat in the freezer wrapped in cling film for a few weeks, sliced and cooked to order for a constant drip-feed of freshly baked pick me ups!
