What is National Cocoa Day?
With National Cocoa Day, the ushers in a holiday worthy of the winter holidays. What better way to warm up after a long day outside?
We make hot cocoa with cocoa powder, boiled milk or water, and sugar. However, Americans often use hot chocolate and hot cocoa interchangeably, sometimes causing a little confusion. There is a difference between the two beverages. We make hot chocolate by using cocoa butter-infused ground chocolate. It's drinking chocolate, and we're mixing it with hot milk.
We make hot cocoa from cocoa powder. We manufacture chocolate liquor by the fermentation, drying, roasting, and grinding process of cocoa beans. They separate cocoa butter from cocoa butter, leaving cocoa powder, using another process. This cocoa powder can be used to make hot cocoa. The result has little fat and calories. The product has very little fat and calories.
Cocoa history
