Hot chocolate, the children's favorite breakfast and the ally of the snack break? Not only After the French craze for coffee , we are witnessing a strong comeback of chocolate. The chef Alain Ducasse was one of the first to rush into the machine by opening his chocolate factory, La Manufacture du Chocolat. The famous ice cream brand Magnum has just marketed chocolate bars, a first for the Eskimo specialist.
Many other brands are starting in the trend with chocolates to drink. And the traditional hot chocolate is not drunk moreover just hot. Gü has 3 chocolates (natural, mocha and salted caramel) to drink, Cacolac revisits its classic chocolate and releases 2 new flavors (caramel and hazelnut praline). In the same vein, Candia has imagined a chocolate milk also available in a special baby growth version.
In short, no need to spend astronomical sums at Angelina to enjoy a real hot chocolate.
Trend of chocolate to drink, sweet back to childhood
It has been understood that drinking chocolate has never been so fashionable. According to Frédéric Ponnavoy , chief pastry chef of Gü , this is intimately linked to the pleasure of childhood: "The sweetness in general and the chocolate to drink also, has for me a relationship to childhood. It reminds us of the afternoon snacks, the milk mustaches on the lips, the butter sandwiches that we dipped in ... Drinking chocolate is like diving back into our memories. "
Chocolate to drink goes with all the sauces
Thick and hot some, more liquid and cold in others ... The chocolate to drink version 2015 is drunk in all its forms. Obviously everything depends on everyone's tastes. With a little whipped cream for a softer mouthfeel, orange powder for the savory side or with spices, cinnamon or even Espelette pepper, the chocolate to drink reinvents itself to infinity .
And it is not difficult to make your own recipe: once you have selected the chocolate of your choice (black, milk or other), just find the right dose of milk , so that the rendering is rather thick or rather liquid, at its convenience.
