Alcoholic Hot Chocolate

Ingredients

• 2 cups milk
• 3 1/2 ounces best-quality dark chocolate, bittersweet or semisweet, as preferred
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 teaspoons honey
• 1 teaspoon brown sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons dark rum, or to taste

Directions

Put the milk into a saucepan and break the chocolate into pieces and add to the milk along with a cinnamon stick, honey, and sugar and heat gently until the chocolate is melted.

Add the vanilla and mix with a small hand whisk and still whisking, add a spoonful of the rum first and taste to see if you want more. Add more sugar if you want this sweeter, too. Take out the cinnamon stick and pour into 2 cappuccino or caffe latte cups.