Best Steaming Hot Cocoa
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Isn’t it a great feeling to sit in a coffee shop with your hands wrapped around a steaming hot cocoa in the company of a good friend? Here are some of Kelowna’s top spots for a velvety-rich mug of hot chocolate.
A Barrista with Good Earth Café in Kelowna mixes up some goodness.
One of the chocolate experts in Kelowna is a café called Truffles Chocolate Café. Special artisan truffles are hand-made here, as well as decadent desserts. The café is also open for lunch daily and offers catering and specialty items like chocolate fountains. But back to the hot chocolate. Truffles’ hot chocolate is made with Elixir chocolate that is heated, along with the milk, with the espresso machine. You can get a delicious hot chocolate made with either milk chocolate or white chocolate… or both!
On Pandosy St. in Kelowna you’ll find 2 other great cafés for yummy hot chocolates. The Wedding Café uses the Monin brand of dark chocolate sauce, which I’m told is 60 calories less per serving than a milk chocolate drink would be. The sauce gives the drink a rich and slightly bitter taste, somewhere on the brink between milk chocolate and dark chocolate. A small mug will set you back $3 and a large is $3.50. And you got it: this is where you come to plan out your wedding – they’ve got the resources and the comfort!
Down the road at Good Earth Café, their decadent hot chocolate also uses a chocolate sauce base that is a brand unique to the Good Earth chain. They stir the sauce with the steamed milk of your choice, and top it with real whipped cream. In fact, all of Good Earth’s goodies are baked in-house, from scratch, with no filler. The chain has built its reputation on featuring organic coffees that are RainForest Alliance approved. Their hot chocolates range from $3.15 for medium sized mugs to $4.70 for an extra large.
All this talk of chocolate and cocoa is making me crave one! On that note, I wish you a great weekend filled with sweet delights. Gotta go!