Le chocolat chaud (parisian hot chocolate)

Chocolat chaud, or hot chocolate is consumed across the world and all hot chocolate lovers should know not to buy the powdered hot chocolate that you just add hot milk to! Honestly, there is no point in having those rubbish hot chocolates (if you can call them hot chocolates at all) when a nice one can be made in 5 minutes! Follow this very simple recipe to make your own very delicious chocolat chaud! 

Ingredients 

• Milk (full fat or semi-skimmed)
• single cream
• Plain cooking chocolate
• Milk cooking chocolate
• granulated sugar (optional)
• A small saucepan 

1. Fill 3/4 of your mug with milk and then top up ALMOST to the top with single cream (with maybe 2-3cm spare)
2. Pour milk and cream into a saucepan and put it over low heat
3. When it starts to steam up, put the plain and milk chocolates into the hot milk. How much you need depends on your mug size. BUT, I think the golden ratio is 5:1 plain chocolate to milk chocolate. So let's say you are using 30g plain chocolate, then you will use 6g milk chocolate
4. For a mug roughly to the one I used in the picture, you will need about 25g plain chocolate and 5g milk chocolate 
5. Stir the mixture with a wooden spoon or plastic whisk continuously until the chocolates have all melted, this should be fairly quick, my chocolates were melted within 30 seconds. But you want to keep whisking until the texture turns smooth, which will take another minute or two
6. Now pour the chocolat chaud into your mug and voila! Your delicious hot chocolate! I actually put in half a tsp of sugar at this point as I like my hot chocolate quite sweet, but this is completely optional!

Link to recipe of the soufflé in this photo: http://bakingscience.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/lemon-and-citrus-honey-souffle.html