Sugar or Powder sugar in homemade cocoa/chocolate mix recipe?
By coffeebreak
@coffeebreak (17797)
United States
November 15, 2010 11:08am CST
I am trying to make the dry mix of flavored hot chocolate mix for "gifts in a jar" kind of thing.
I have been researching recipes and find that some call for granulated sugar, and some call for powder sugar.
Any experts out there have any comments on why one or the other? I have never heard of powder sugar being in flavored hot chocolate mixes, but at the same time..might make for a sweeter flavor. However, I have heard sugar doesn't dissolve as well in this capacity possibly making for a gritty drink so the powder would make a creamier drink.
Also, if you have a great tried and true recipe...PM me with it.
Also, if you have any thoughts as to how to flavor the mix.. most use a flavored non dairy/dry creamer or some use a measurement of a spice (like cinnamon)
I am making about 20 servings. And I"d like them to be a great flavor but at the same time, I need to try each first..don't want to give a bad batch. So any thoughts about how to make the recipe and try it first without making a HUGE batch of it to do so? These are gifts my grand daughters are making for their families for christmas gifts. IT has to be GOOD!!!
Thanks for any comments and suggestions!
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
15 Nov 10
Clearly the powdered sugar would dissolve faster, but it might also look prettier in the jar. But I do not have room in my kitchen (or in my life) for all sorts of different ingredients, so I just buy one kind of sugar (Xylitol which is chemically the same as Birch Sugar which I consider a healthy alternative to the other white stuff) and when I need it powdered, I just pour it into the Magic Bullet blender (flat blade) and powder the amount needed myself. That is how I make small amounts of whole grain flour etc, too., as those don't keep forever as sugar does. Yes, you need to try them first. YUMS!
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@coffeebreak (17797)
• United States
15 Nov 10
I guess disolving fastest would be a plus, nothing worse than gritty hot chocolate!
I am only doing this for christmas gifts..I don't drink it hardly at all so a can of General Foods INternational flavored coffee drink mix lasts me about 3 weeks and they only cost $3.00 so that is what I drink!
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@drannhh (15219)
• United States
15 Nov 10
They used to make a good flavored raspberry iced tea mix and I love the little cans they packaged it in. The Chai is good too, but lately I've just been drinking my own fresh herb teas from plants in my garden. Have a great week. I am off on another mini-vacation and probably won't be online until after Thanksgiving (although you never know--sometimes they have computers in the hotel lobbies that I can sneak away and use ;-)
@joey_matthews (8354)
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15 Nov 10
When me or my wife makes cakes and its a chocolate one... we use caster sugar, but on the odd occasion that we don't have any we just use granulated sugar. If the recipe says to use brown sugar... i put in soft light brown sugar. For the cocoa powder i use cadburys hot chocolate powder as we always have that in our cupboard.
