The Best Hot Chocolate In The Galaxy??? (Galaxy Instant)

Member Name: chrisandmark

Product:	Galaxy Instant
Date:	19/02/08 (119 review reads)
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Advantages: A delicious, smooth hot chocolate with the added bonus of not having to boil milk!

Disadvantages: None at all

Those of you in Brum this week will know it's cold. Very cold. So what does a girl do when she's freeeeeezing? She reaches for the hot chocolate, of course! I had a couple of freebie sachets of Galaxy hot chocolate in the post this morning and decided to test one out tonight for two reasons - to warm me up and so I can write this op. I love hot chocolate of any description. Cocoa made with milk and slightly under a tonne in weight of sugar, Options low fat hot chocolate for when I'm dieting, McDonalds hot chocolate... So let's see how this small brown sachet is going to measure up.

Making the drink up is simplicity itself. Simply boil the kettle, add a mugs worth of boiling water to the hot chocolate powder and mix thoroughly. It's instant you see. No waiting for the milk to boil (and having to put up with the yukky smell) or having to sieve the lumps out of your cocoa, as soon as you give this a good stir all the lumps disappear and you're left with a rich, bubbly looking hot chocolate. It's got a nice froth on the top which reminds me of McDonalds hot chocolate.

It certainly smells chocolaty enough, in fact it smells absolutely delicious. Taking my first sip I'm expecting the insipid, mild chocolate taste of most instant hot chocolate you can buy but I was in for a pleasant surprise. Although this is a Galaxy product, I wouldn't go as far as to say it tastes like drinking liquid Galaxy. Obviously. But it's a delicious hot chocolate in it's own right. It tastes rich, smooth, creamy and is quite a thick drink.

Compared to Cadbury's instant hot chocolate this is more authentic tasting and much richer. I think one of these would possibly work as a chocolate fix because it tastes so richly of chocolate, perfect for those times when you've just read one of Dooyoo's delicious choc ops and it's 3am and there isn't a Whole Nut in the house... Happens to me often! lol The drink itself is quite sweet, although I added a teaspoon of sugar as I like my hot chocolate very sugary.

It doesn't actually taste anything like Galaxy in my opinion, although a quick blimp at the ingredients list tells me there is in fact 7.5% Galaxy chocolate in the drink. The addition of the Galaxy makes for a thick and warming cup of hot chocolate, even if you can't taste it! The chocolate flavour is much richer than milk chocolate but not bitter like dark chocolate, and I think this is where the Galaxy comes in because it's more of a creamy chocolate than fitting into a milk or plain bracket. The thing I can most liken this to is a cup of McDonalds hot chocolate, it's got the chocolaty tasting froth through which you sip the boiling hot drink. Delicious.

When I finish my hot chocolate I noticed that all the powder had dissolved beautifully and there were no horrible brown sludgy bits at the bottom of the mug to wash out. Cadbury's hot chocolate doesn't mix well and I find the taste gets stronger as you get to the bottom of the mug because so much of the powder has congealed there but this is a lovely smooth drink all the way to the end.

As I said, this sachet was a freebie but I checked in Londis and a standard size jar will set you back £1.79, although this is a large 400g jar and will make roughly 12 cups of hot chocolate. Each mug of this will cost you 115 cals and 3.4g fat, which is way less than a bar of chocolate so if you're dieting and you really, really want chocolate then go for this instead of that bar of Dairy Milk - your thighs will thank you for it!

Summary: At last, an instant hot chocolate which takes GOOD!