{"id":102,"date":"2012-12-19T21:37:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-20T03:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/?p=102"},"modified":"2013-02-18T17:24:34","modified_gmt":"2013-02-18T23:24:34","slug":"quick-and-easy-lactose-free-dark-chocolate-hot-cocoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/102\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick and easy lactose free dark chocolate hot cocoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished off <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moonstruckchocolate.com\/p-391-dark-chocolate-hot-cocoa.aspx\">a can of this great (albeit expensive) hot cocoa<\/a>\u00a0and decided to reverse engineer the recipe&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Turns out it&#8217;s just two ingredients: cocoa and powdered sugar (great for the lactose intolerants). Can&#8217;t really mess that up. And yeah alright, most of the world has hopefully realized that hot cocoa is pretty damn simple, but if not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Dark Hot Cocoa recipe for the, ahem, <a href=\"http:\/\/usatoday30.usatoday.com\/tech\/science\/2009-08-30-lactose-intolerance_N.htm\">majority of us lactose\u00a0intolerant\u00a0folk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>30% (by weight) cocoa (Hershey&#8217;s cocoa or generic works fine) (Example: 90 grams)<\/li>\n<li>70% (by weight) powdered sugar (Example: 210 grams)<\/li>\n<li>Mix thoroughly in a ziplock bag (Example yields 300 grams for those that cannot add two numbers).<\/li>\n<li>Change proportions to adjust dark chocolate-ness.<\/li>\n<li>Yeah, these ingredients cost next to nothing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>STEPS TO GLORY: Warm up an 8oz-12oz glass (13oz is just too much, c&#8217;mon) of milk (soy milk, almond milk, &#8220;regular&#8221; milk&#8230; others are untested). Warming can be done via microwave or via the stove if that&#8217;s your style. Mix in 4 Tbsps of the above mixture. Cocoa should sort of melt into the milk. Toughest recipe you&#8217;ve seen this year, I know.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"margin: 0 0 10px 0; padding: 0; font-size: 0.8em; line-height: 1.6em;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bunchesandbits\/4204909358\/\" title=\"Snowman Smile by Bunches and Bits {Karina}, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2646\/4204909358_dc8a3b12a4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Snowman Smile\"><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin: 0;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bunchesandbits\/4204909358\/\">Snowman Smile<\/a>, a photo by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/bunchesandbits\/\">Bunches and Bits {Karina}<\/a> on Flickr.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just finished off a can of this great (albeit expensive) hot cocoa\u00a0and decided to reverse engineer the recipe&#8230; Turns out it&#8217;s just two ingredients: cocoa and powdered sugar (great for the lactose intolerants). Can&#8217;t really mess that up. And yeah alright, most of the world has hopefully realized that hot cocoa is pretty damn simple, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4tMp-1E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pyktech.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}