if you're from Australia, you might know a chocolate chain called Max Brenner.
Max Brenner is a coffee shop - Max Brenner himself is a chocolatier they call him.
When you go order a hot chocolate from Max Brenner, there's a whole bunch of different
options, and one of them is called an Italian Thick.
It is without a doubt my favourite hot chocolate in the world.
The only issue is that it costs a bit over $7.
I probably could have paid off my university tuition with the amount of money I have spent
on those hot chocolates throughout university, so I think it's about time that I stopped
buying them and started making them for myself.
Last time that I went, Dan and I peered over the coffee machine and we watched the Barista
making it, and it seemed as though they used melted chocolate (which looked quite runny,
which made me think perhaps the melted chocolate had some milk in it to kind of make it a bit
more runny) and custard, and that seemed to be about it.
That's what i'm going to do for you today guys.
I have tried it, I have tested it, and it is not healthy at all, so if you're diabetic,
pre diabetic, watching your weight or sensible, then please turn off this video now, because
this video is not for you.
This video is for those of us that don't mind killing ourselves with kindness, and drinking
an entire bucket of liquid chocolate.
So without further ado, let's go to the tutorial!
Are you ready?
What you'll need for this tutorial is a pyrex container, a bag of chocolate melts - you
can use white chocolate if you want to color it, or you can use milk chocolate or dark
chocolate, what ever your preference is.
We'll need custard (which is a key ingredient).
I'm using this Farmhouse Gold, but you can use any brand of custard.
Milk, of course, but milk is ugly so that's not going to be in frame.
We'll top it with some whipped cream - i've got purple - this is Ube extract, which is
a sweet potato, but you can just use purple food dye if you want.
I've also got some pink food dye here, which has a blue lid, which is confusing, but that
IS pink.
Then a whole bunch of toppings (any really).
I've got edible glitter, stars, sprinkles, chocolates.
That's it!
That's all you need.
You'll also need a glass.
Very simple - just pop your white chocolate melts in the Pyrex container (i'm
using half a bag) and cover them with milk.
Microwave for 1 minute.
That's had one minute in the microwave.
We'll give it a stir - it'll start to thicken up as you stir it.
The chocolate should all be melted.
Once that's stirred, we'll add the custard.
I'm adding a couple of dollops.
Give that a stir, and that's going back in the microwave for another 30 seconds.
We're going in with pink food colouring - I don't bother to separate it for the two different
colours.
I do the pink first, then add purple over the top.
You can always add strawberry flavouring if you want.
Half of that can go in to our glass.
Now, go in with the Ube (just a drop).
Using the back of a very big spoon, slowly pour the purple on one side of the glass.
Make sure that it is being poured very slowly, and only on one side.
Take our whipped cream - and add some fun toppings.
This is what I would assume if you bottled Morgan Freeman's voice and turned it in to
a drink, that is what this is.
It's thick, smooth, rich and luscious.
@prettypastelplease