📋Homemade Chocolate Liqueur recipe

This homemade chocolate liqueur is so creamy, rich and intense that regular hot chocolate will no longer have a place in your life. This recipe doesn't have heavy cream nor milk, therefore this alcoholic chocolate drink is non-perishable and has a long shelf life.

Course Drinks

Cuisine Italian

Keyword chocolate alcohol drink, chocolate digestive, chocolate liqueur

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 13

Resting time 60

Total Time 60 18

Servings bottles (1.3 pint - 75 cl)

Calories 2252kcal

Author Laura Tobin

Equipment

Ingredients

1 ½ cup cocoa powder
2 sticks vanilla
2 cups 95% alcohol or vodka
4 cups caster sugar
3 cups fresh water

US Customary - Metric

Instructions

Cut the vanilla stick in half
2 sticks vanilla
Scrape the seeds into a jar
Cut the pod into small pieces and add into the jar
Pour over the alcohol
2 cups 95% alcohol or vodka
Let the vanilla brew in the alcohol in a sealed jar for 1 month

After one month

Prepare a syrup by melting the sugar in water and let it boil for a few minutes
4 cups caster sugar, 3 cups fresh water
Add the cocoa gradually and always stirring until it melts into the syrup completely
1 ½ cup cocoa powder
Let it simmer for 5 minutes
Remove from the heat, cover and let it cool down at room temperature

Mixing it all together

Once cold, filter the chocolate syrup
Sieve also the alcohol which was infused with the vanilla pods
Stir well for at least 10 minutes to make sure all is combined
Transfer the liquor in bottles, close with a cork and wait another month before drinking it

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Notes

Use good quality cocoa
Do not replace vanilla pod with vanilla extract
Use a large pan when you make the syrup to make sure it doesn't spill when you add the cocoa. You will be adding a lot of cocoa
Once you combine the cocoa syrup with the alcohol you will have to mix for a long time. You may want to use an electric mixer.
If you want to have a creamier liqueur use less water ( 2 ¼ cups - 500 ml) to make the syrup, however, it is then best to store it in a jar instead of a bottle.
You can also use this chocolate alcohol drink over ice cream or in sponge cakes

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