Homemade Spiked Hot Cocoa

Here is a delicious recipe my husband came up with for a spiked hot cocoa. You can make this minus the alcohol for the kiddies!

Servings: 4

• 1/3 cup cocoa powder 
• 3/4 sugar 
• pinch of salt 
• 1/3 cup water 
• 4 cups milk 
• 1/2 tsp vanilla 
• 1/4 tsp cinnamon 
• Dash of nutmeg 
• 1 shot of rum 
• 1/4 cup Bailey's 

1. Make a chocolate sauce by mixing the cocoa powder, cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and water and bring to a boil for a few minutes, but make sure not to burn it 
2. Add in milk, rum, Bailey's, and vanilla and bring liquid to a hot temperature without boiling it 
3. Serve and Enjoy! 
4. This cocoa is delicious topped with homemade whipped cream! 

Homemade Whipped Cream:

• 1/2 cup heavy whipping cream
• 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 2 tbsp powdered sugar

1. Beat heavy whipping cream with an electric whisk until it starts to thicken
2. Add vanilla and powdered sugar and continuing whipping until soft peaks form