Homemade Hot Cocoa

For some crazy reason, it decided to snow yesteday. We got a lot of snow! At least, 4 inches yesterday and we're expected to get more today. Awesome. Way to go Nebraska.

Anyways, my roommate suggested that I made some yummy hot chocolate somehow because of this non-sense weather. I said I had some instant, microwave hot chocolate packets, but that wasn't good enough. So after dinner, we went to the dorm store and bough 2 king size Hershey milk chocolate bars, 2 containers of 2% milk (I wanted to get whole milk so it would be creamer and smoother, but they dont carry it anymore) I think the milk came out to about 4 cups of milk or so. And I already had some vanilla extract, and I had sugar packets in my room.

I fired up the good ol' rice cooker and poured one container of milk into it and let it warm up. After that was warm, I added the second milk and let it warm up too. I added 6 packets of sugar and about 2 tsp of vanilla extract. I stirred the mixture until the sugar was dissolved. I then crushed up the 2 bars of chocolate and added it to the mixture and stirred. After about 5 minutes of stirring, the chocolate was finally melted and was ready to serve! Yummy! I wish I just had some marsh mellows to go with this! Next time!

So for Homemade Hot Cocoa recipe, you need: 2 tsp of vanilla extract, 6 packets of sugar, 2 bars of Hershey's milk chocolate, and about 4 cups of milk.

Enjoy!