What is National Hot Chocolate Day?
National Hot Chocolate Day, the nation's most popular cold-weather drink, warms up people each year on January 31st.
Hot chocolate is a warm beverage made with ground chocolate, heated milk, or water, and sugar. We often interchangeably use the terms hot chocolate and hot cocoa in America. However, the two beverages are not the same.
Cocoa vs. hot chocolate: cocoa vs. hot chocolate. vs. hot chocolate
We make hot cocoa with cocoa powder, boiled milk or water, and sugar. Thanks to a process that was developed by father and son chemists, we're able to do this. We make hot chocolate from ground chocolate that contains cocoa butter for the thicker, more flavorful drink. It is also known as drinking chocolate. Hot chocolate has also been around longer than hot cocoa. t.a. Casparus van Houten Sr. developed a method to separate the cocoa solids from the butter in the early 1800s. These fats were more soluble in water, according to Coenraad Johannes, his son, Coenraad Johannes. Cocoa powder was made possible by their processes together..
But before that, everyone drank hot chocolate. During the 19th century, this thicker, creamier drink often had medicinal properties for stomach ailments. In fact, it existed in ceremonial history long before the beverage's fame in Victorian times.
