It was the first known chocolate beverage to become popular, but it wasn’t the first one to be made with cocoa. The earliest chocolate drink was an unappealing bitter brew of cocoa and chilies consumed by the Aztec and Maya more than three thousand years ago.
Until the sixteenth century, ground chocolate was mixed with water and spices, including chili peppers, to make a bitter frothy beverage.
It wasn’t until the European added sugar, vanilla and a little heat in the sixteen century than Hot Chocolate become the royal beverage of choice.
During the 1600s and 1700s, fancy chocolate pots made of silver, gold and porcelain were used to serve hot chocolate drinks.
Of course, like every great recipe, this timeless classic has become the inspiration for an endless number of other chocolate beverages.
Formulations are becoming increasingly sophisticated with a wide variety of products on the market. These include products and chocolate drinks flavored with for instance orange, mint or toffee.
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