How to Make Hot Chocolate - Adding extras to hot cocoa

Hello, my name is Melissa and on behalf of Expert Village today I’m going to teach you how to make the perfect cup of hot chocolate. Now in this clip we’ve got our chocolate and our milk melted and ready to go. Now in this step, I mentioned earlier that if you want to put in any liqueurs you should do it before if you want to burn off the alcohol. If you want a stronger taste, this is when you would do it, now, add in your liqueur right before you’re about to pour it into the cups. Also we can play with various flavors, I don’t know if perhaps, you’ve ever tried this before but you can also put different herbs and various spices in your hot chocolate as well. Things like basil, things like nutmeg, or uh, ground cinnamon, it’s whatever is up to you, however you want to try flavoring it, so experiment with different flavors. Right now I’m going to put in just a hint of ground nutmeg in here, just for a little bit of a kick, not overly drastic, just a little bit in there for a bit of flavor, so that’s what I’m going to use today is just a bit of ground nutmeg for some flavor, you can add in anything that you wish, and in the next clip I’ll show you how to garnish this, so I’m going to head off of the stove now, take this and put it into one of my favorite hot chocolate cups and then we’ll start garnishing our hot chocolate.