White Chocolate Vanilla Chai
A creamy white hot chocolate with vanilla chai powder, melted white chocolate and fresh vanilla, topped with marshmallow and caramel.
The pale, creamy cousin of a chai hot chocolate: instead of dark chocolate, white is melted into the milk, so you get butter and vanilla notes rather than deep Cocoa. A vanilla chai powder and a scrape of fresh pod push the vanilla right to the front. Softer and sweeter than the dark version, it is the sort of thing for a cold evening on the sofa.
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You'll need
- 25g Drink Me Chai Vanilla Chai Latte powder (1 standard serving)
- 250ml whole milk
- 3 squares of white chocolate
- Quarter of a fresh vanilla pod, seeds scraped out with a small knife
- 1 large marshmallow
- 1 teaspoon of caramel sauce, for the drizzle
- 1 short cinnamon stick (about 3cm), for the saucer
- 1 single vanilla shortbread biscuit, for the saucer
- 1 warmed 400ml mug
- 1 small saucepan
- 1 small balloon whisk
Method
- Warm a large mug with hot water, then pour it away.
- Pour the milk into a small saucepan and drop in the white chocolate squares while the milk is still cold.
- Set over medium low heat and whisk gently in slow circles for a couple of minutes as the white chocolate melts in; it scorches easily, so keep the heat gentle.
- Warm until it just steams, around 70C, not boiling; it should be glossy and pale.
- Off the heat, shower in the vanilla chai powder and whisk hard for thirty seconds until smooth, with a soft foam.
- Pour through a fine sieve into the warmed mug.
- Scrape the seeds from the vanilla pod and stir them gently into the foam, then drop in a marshmallow and pull a thin caramel zigzag across the top.
- Tip: white chocolate scorches more easily than dark, so keep the heat low and keep whisking as it melts.
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Brewed with: Drink Me Chai Vanilla Chai Latte, 250g
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