Next best thing to a piece of chocolate. (Cadbury Drinking Chocolate)

Member Name: angelic2004

Product:	Cadbury Drinking Chocolate
Date:	13/03/09 (234 review reads)
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Advantages: chocolatey taste of cadbury's, warm and soothing, so yummy

Disadvantages: none apart from it tastes horrid in semi-skimmed milk

Sometimes you just need a treat, that something to comfort you, to give you that warm fuzzy feeling, lift your mood when you're feeling down, or simply just because you felt like indulging in something sweet. So why deprive yourself of that luxury as you're only going to end up binging on it sooner or later, so let yourself have a little something from time to time.

Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate is one of my luxuries I can't see myself giving up on in the near future. I tried previously to change down a brand to save money, however Tesco's drinking chocolate was is just did not match up to my beloved Cadbury's drinking chocolate, it looked the same, maybe even tasted near the same when you first taste it but it didn't have that extra chocolate taste that comes in after a sip like cool chocolate. So Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate has a quality of its own that no brand can match.

Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate comes in a purple cylinder container with a purple plastic lid. It has a swirly white cup along with bits of a magenta swirl design on the front of the tin. It has a gold rim round the edge of the cylinder and a gold foiled seal over the cylinder to open with a tab, be careful that tab can rip off or in the process of opening it you could make a mess with the powder going everywhere. The powder is fine and a milk chocolate brown colour and smells chocolatey. It contains sugar, cocoa, salt, flavouring, cocoa solids 25% minimum. The ingredients are exactly the same as the Tesco brand but I guess they used a lower quality of cocoa, hence why Cadbury's tastes so much better. Mum purchased a 500g Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate for me and said it cost around £2 at Iceland's but you can also get a 250g version too. £1.00 for 250g from ASDA would work out cheaper as you can buy 2 x 250g for £2 rather than the usual 2.99 for 500g else where.

To make it you just add warm milk to a cup/mug and mix in three heaped teaspoons of the Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate. I think this is better with full fat milk, tried it with semi-skimmed milk and it was disgusting.

Now I tend to drink soya more, I make it up with Alpro original soya milk. I put a cup of soya milk in a milk pan and put 3 heaped teaspoons of Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate and then let it gently heat on the hob, it starts to go a dark brown as the powder melt, then I just mix it till it all melt and is warm. Pour and stir into a cup and smell the chocolatey scent it gives off and just adore its appearance of a hot milk chocolate liquid with a bit of froth on top. Taste so warm, chocolatey and soothing. Not as good as having a piece of Cadbury's milk chocolate to bite into and melt in your mouth but close enough.

So go on indulge yourself with this chocolatey treat.

Summary: Nothing beats this hot chocolate.