Spanish Hot Chocolate

Chocolate Español

Preparation info
  • Makes

    4

    servings
    • Difficulty

      Easy

    • Ready in

      10 min

Appears in
The Best Recipes in the World: More Than 1,000 International Dishes to Cook at Home

By Mark Bittman

Published 2005

  • About

Montezuma introduced Cortés to chocolate in the sixteenth century, and the Spaniards immediately began messing around with it. The original Mexican beverage was tweaked to suit the tastes of the Spaniards, and their associated versions of hot chocolate remain different to this day.

Spanish hot chocolate is incredibly rich and thick—almost like loose pudding—and perfect for dunking Churros. Some people us