Vanilla Custard Cocoa

White hot chocolate with a backbone.

HotCake & vanillaWinterChristmas

You will need

  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 2 oz white chocolate, chopped
  • 1/2 vanilla bean, scraped
  • 1 egg yolk
  • Grated nutmeg

Make it

  1. Heat the milk with the vanilla bean and seeds until steaming, then pull the pod.
  2. Whisk the yolk in a bowl and temper it with a splash of hot milk.
  3. Return it to the pan on low and stir until it coats a spoon.
  4. Off the heat, whisk in the white chocolate. Grate nutmeg over.
Make it grown-up

Add 1 oz Irish cream. Add it at the end so the heat does not curdle it.

Goes well with

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