This is so simple that I’m a bit embarrassed to be blogging about it!
After watching Willie’s Wonky Chocolate Factory – a television series about Willie Harcourt-Cooze and his attempt to establish his line of chocolate in the UK – I was inspired to try my own version of his chocolate shot recipe.
The beverage he prepared appeared to be nothing more than 100% cacao chocolate dissolved in boiling water. As we can’t get 100% here in Australia, I tried using my Callebaut 70% callets. What I ended up with is a deliciously dark hot chocolate – reminiscent in some ways of an espresso coffee. It’s won Pete the non-coffee drinker over, and is certainly a nice way to get your daily chocolate antioxidants!
It’s dead simple to prepare, simply dissolve 40g of dark chocolate in two-thirds of a cup of boiling water (this makes enough for two espresso sized cups). You’ll need a little whizzer to mix it all together – the Callebaut callets melt away easily. If you don’t have one, try using a small whisk, or dissolving the chocolate and water together in a saucepan over a low heat. Simply stirring with a spoon doesn’t seem to work, as you end up with sludge at the bottom of the cup.
I’ve also tried this with 85% Lindt, but found it too sour for my liking. It’s an interesting way to compare pure chocolate flavours!
Yay! you saw the tv series. Such mad passion!
I so agree about it being a good way to appreciate flavours of chocolate. No milk/cream or other distractions.
Yes, and thank you for the heads up! It was a great show, although almost painful to watch at time – they put themselves through so much to get established. Have you tried their 100% cacao bars? I’ve become quite hooked on the choc shots, although I’m not sure I could drink one made with 100%. I found their website yesterday, and there is an excerpt of Willie’s book on it. In the section about hot chocolate, he suggests you can flavour the drinks with rum – I’ve been resisting temptation thus far.. :)
We also watched Charlie and the chocolate factory last week….my kids are in love with it!!!!!
One of our favourite movies, Oz, both the original Gene Wilder version AND the Johnny Depp one. Actually, that sounds like a fun thing to watch on the Saturday after New Year.. :)
The choc shot sounds like the best ever diet, but does anyone know if ia actually works? I know Tanya (Willie’s wife) says on the show that she lost 11 lbs, but has anyone else had such good results?
I have organic cocoa which comes from Madagascar, they take the bean, sun dry it and then crush it to make the cocoa. This would serve as cocoa mass which willie makes, I think. Have started the shots today, just mixing my cocoa and hot water… :-)
That does sound like the same thing! I’ve also recently found a cocoa mass that we can buy here by Callebaut – I wrote about it here if it’s of interest. Now I’m just waiting for the weight to fall off as I drink my choc shots.. :)
How nice and decadent sounding too! I love bitter chocolate flavours as I don’t have a big sweet tooth. Thanks for sharing this with me! Yummm…
I’m drinking one right now, Chef, with a melted marshmallow in it.. :)