Perfect Cocoa Drink

by Editorial Staff

Summary

Prep Time	5 mins
Total Time	5 mins
Course	Drinks
Cuisine	European
Servings (Default: 1)

Ingredients

0.5 ½ cup coffee, espresso cup, preferably stronger
1 pinch (s) salt
1 splash kirsch, 40%
1 ½ teaspoon, heaped cocoa powder (drinking and baking cocoa)
2 ¼ teaspoon, heaped sugar
1 glass milk, warm or cold, or almond milk for the vegan variant

Instructions

Put the hot coffee in a large mug. Mix in the sugar, cocoa powder, a little salt and kirsch. Pour milk over everything. Depending on your taste, you can use hot, lukewarm or cold milk. Then stir everything well.
Depending on your mood, you can add more schnapps or leave it out completely for the little ones, but this has a significant impact on the taste. If you like, you can also experiment with different spices, such as For example, replace vanilla, nutmeg, cinnamon, almonds, hazelnuts, etc. or the kirsch with another clear fruit schnapps. The orange and tangerine varieties are good choices for this, among other things.

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