{"id":18,"date":"2017-10-08T14:59:44","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/mexican-hot-chocolate\/"},"modified":"2017-10-08T14:59:44","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T14:59:44","slug":"mexican-hot-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/mexican-hot-chocolate\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Hot Chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/\/media\/users\/robin\/IMG_1517.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mexican Hot Chocolate\" width=\"49%\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/\/media\/users\/robin\/IMG_1686.JPG\" alt=\"\" title=\"Mexican Hot Chocolate\" width=\"49%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Best.  Hot chocolate.  Ever.<\/p>\n<p>1\/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder<br \/>\nAbout 1\/4 cup sugar (more as desired after you taste it at the end of cooking)<br \/>\n1 teaspoon cinnamon<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg<br \/>\n1\/4 teaspoon ground allspice<br \/>\n1\/8 teaspoon salt<br \/>\n1\/2 cup hot coffee<br \/>\n2\u00bd cups milk<br \/>\n1 cup whipping cream<br \/>\n1\/2 cup coffee liqueur such as Kahlua or Starbucks<\/p>\n<p>Cinnamon-stick stirrers, optional<br \/>\nPuffs of whipped cream, optional<\/p>\n<p>In a medium saucepan, combine the cocoa, sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and salt. Blend in the hot coffee until smooth. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, about 2 minutes. Add milk and cream. Heat but do not boil. Remove from heat and stir in the liquor. Taste and adjust sweetness. <\/p>\n<p>Serve in heatproof mugs with cinnamon sticks and whipped cream garnish.<\/p>\n<p>I make up a double batch of the chocolate\/spice mix and store it in the pantry.  A half batch makes two generous servings.  I use 1\/3c mix to half the wet ingredients<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best. Hot chocolate. Ever. 1\/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder About 1\/4 cup sugar (more as desired after you taste it at the end of cooking) 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1\/4 teaspoon grated nutmeg 1\/4 teaspoon ground allspice 1\/8 teaspoon salt 1\/2 cup hot coffee 2\u00bd cups milk 1 cup whipping cream 1\/2 cup coffee liqueur such &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/2017\/10\/08\/mexican-hot-chocolate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mexican Hot Chocolate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sofadog.net\/recipes\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}