Years ago, when I wrote about new cafe openings every week, I had hot chocolates on a very regular basis. I love a good hot chocolate, but the hot chocolates I had then were rarely good. Recently, I haven’t been drinking much hot chocolate at all, so I hoped this taste test would be like my Suddenly 30 moment – after a disorientating journey to the future, I’d be greeted by a better world where everything was awesome.
The blind taste test involved 13 supermarket hot chocolates and seven friends. We made each hot chocolate based on the packet’s suggested recipe and scored them based on aroma, texture, taste and chocolatey-ness.
