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In this video, we're going to show you
how to make frozen hot chocolate,
a delicious summertime treat.
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To get started making this delicious frozen hot chocolate,
you're probably going to need a quick trip to the grocery store,
although none of the ingredients are too crazy.
Here's the ingredients we'll need.
A bar of your favorite chocolate,
about 4 and 1/2 ounces,
some of your favorite hot cocoa mix,
regular white sugar,
some heavy whipping cream,
some milk,
and if you want to add a little bit of extra sweetness to your dessert,
some whipped cream.
For today, here's the basic idea.
After whipping up a few batches of our recipe,
we'll show you how to produce the frozen hot chocolate
using a blender, an ice cream machine,
a Ziploc bag full of ice,
or if you happen to have it, some liquid nitrogen.
With all of our ingredients gathered,
let's make our first batch,
and throw it in the ice cream machine.
Oh, no golden ticket.
Let's start by chopping up our chocolate bar
into a bunch of really small pieces.
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We want to melt all of our chocolate in a double boiler.
That's when you take one pan,
and put it in another pan that's full of water.
This prevents the pan with the chocolate
from overheating and burning your chocolate.
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Once you have a smooth creamy consistency in your chocolate,
it's time to add the next ingredients.
2 tablespoons of hot cocoa powder,
and 1 and 1/2 tablespoons of sugar.
Stir that in until you have a uniform consistency.
It won't be as smooth as it was before.
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Once the sugar and hot cocoa are mixed in,
let's take it off the heat,
and add 1/2 cup of heavy whipping cream.
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At this point, I find that a whisk
works a little bit better than a spatula.
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With the cream thoroughly mixed in,
now let's add one cup of milk.
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At this point, what we have is a deliciously rich, extremely
chocolatey mixture that's frankly a little too strong.
You wouldn't want to eat this plain,
except maybe a teaspoonful about that size
because it's really really potent.
So what we actually need to do now
is water it down with water.
Let's add 1 and 1/2 cups of water into our mixture.
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With the water diluting it,
it tastes like an extremely delicious,
but room temperature hot chocolate.
So cool hot chocolate?
Cool chocolate?
Un-hot chocolate.
Let's make it cold.
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If you've never used one of these ice cream machines before,
they're pretty simple.
This container goes in the freezer for several hours
to lower the temperature quite a bit,
and then it just holds your liquid while it spins in this machine.
Let's turn this on, and pour in our mix.
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The ice cream machine method is very simple,
but it does take some time,
and while that's running,
let's get our next batch started.
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This time, we're using the blender recipe,
and with the blender recipe,
we now need to add three cups of ice into our blender,
and then pour our mixture over that.
We don't add any water because the melting ice will dilute it enough.
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Once we blend up the ice,
this version of the frozen hot chocolate is complete.
Cheers.
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The blender version gives a much thinner consistency
than the other three methods.
So if you want a version that you drink,
rather than eat with a spoon,
this is the way to go.
Oh it's so good.
There we go.
It has taken maybe 15-ish minutes,
and at this point,
our ice cream machine's frozen hot chocolate
is just the right consistency.
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That's so good.
I can do this all day.
As you can see, the ice cream maker does give us a little bit thicker
of a consistency than when we make it in the blender.
For our next method, we're going to be using something you may have done
if you've ever made ice cream at home.
That involves putting what we're going to freeze in a Ziploc bag,
and putting that bag inside of a bigger bag,
and filling the bigger bag full of ice and salt.
I have here a 1 gallon freezer bag, and a 2 gallon freezer bag.
So we've got our smaller one gallon bag.
We're going to pour our mix into there
after adding the cream, the milk, and the water.
That's about 3 cups of cool liquid.
So this is just room temperature.
We don't have to worry about it melting the bag, or anything.
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Squeeze out as much of the air as we can.
Now, we just have a bag full of liquid chocolate.
Now, we have our bag of ice and a bunch of salt,
I'm using ice cream salt,
you can use other salt if you like.
It should all work just as well.
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Using about 8 cups of ice,
and now, we'll add about one cup of our salt.
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Get the salt and ice nice and mixed up together,
and now we take our smaller bag,
put it inside our larger bag.
Let's just make sure it's nice and covered with our ice.
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I'm going to try and suck some of the extra air out of this bag as well.
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That way all the ice should pretty well stay in contact
with the bag inside.
And at this point, we just need to start mixing it up.
We shake it, and we squish it,
and scrunch it.
and just move it around because we want all that salty ice
to be cooling down the mixture,
and we don't want it to present to a solid piece.
We want it to freeze into a nice slush.
With this method, you can kind of choose the consistency that you want.
If you want it to be thicker,
just keep it moving around in your ice and salt for a little bit longer.
A little bit more of a drinkable consistency,
just take it out sooner.
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After about 10 minutes of mixing our hot chocolate around
inside that salty ice,
we have what is most definitely not that same liquid consistency.
Now, let's rinse this off so we don't accidentally end up
getting salt in our hot chocolate,
and scoop it out, and see what it looks like.
Of course I do want to rinse it very quickly
so I don't warm it back up.
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We have one more method to try,
and that is using liquid nitrogen.
Let's whip up one more batch,
and see how quickly we can make frozen hot chocolate using that.
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There's our chocolatey base.
Now, let's add some liquid nitrogen to it,
and see if we can flash freeze this sucker.
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All of the liquid nitrogen down inside our mixture
bubbling up is giving it a really interesting
frothy texture on top.
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As you can see, all four of these methods work great.
Some people are going to have an ice cream maker,
some people won't.
I think most people will have a blender,
but if not, Ziploc bags are really easy to get your hands on,
and that method works just as well.
Of course, if you want to get really fancy with it,
you can start adding things like whipped cream and garnishes.
Figure out which method works best for you,
and enjoy a cool, refreshing chocolate treat this summer.
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