Sunday treat: Peppermint hot chocolate and chocolate cornflake bites

❅ Peppermint hot chocolate ❅

- Milk enough to fill your favourite mug

- Peppermint extract

- Candy canes

- Unsweetened cocoa powder

- Sugar

- A little pot
- A whisk

Optional: Marshmallows, whipped cream, chocolate shavings, a candy cane for decoration.

Everything is to taste. I use a bit over 1 table spoon unsweetened cocoa powder and 1½ table spoons sugar, 1 crushed candy cane, one lid scoop of the peppermint extract and however much milk fits in my mug. If you like the peppermint stronger, add more, if you want a faint taste, use less. It's basically just experimenting with the ingredients!

So this is as simple as can be, put everything in the pot, put it on medium heat and stir around until the drink starts steaming and everything is nicely combined!

❅ Chocolate cornflake bites ❅

- ROUGHLY (!!!!) crushed cornflakes
- Chocolate (we used 200g dark chocolate. White, milk, any plain chocolate will do)
- A pot
- Water
- A bowl
- Baking trays
- 2 spoons
- Baking paper

Optional: Chopped nuts of your choice

The exact measurements are hard to tell, because it depends on how much chocolate you use, how finely or rough you crushed your cornflakes.

We used the water bath thing to melt our chocolate. You can microwave it if that's what you fancy.

Firstly, put some baking paper on some baking trays. You'll need this later.

Crush a good amount of cornflakes. It shouldn't be whole pieces of cornflakes, but it shouldn't be fine dust either. Melt the chocolate till it's completely smooth. If you don't use a water bath to melt it, transfer it to a big bowl. Slowly add the crushed cornflakes to the chocolate. The mixture shouldn't be completely wet, but all the cornflakes should be somewhat covered and be able to stick to each other.

When it's all mixed to what you think looks right, take two spoons and scoop out small portions and put them on the baking trays. These shouldn't be big, because they can be hard to bite over if you don't crush the cornflakes enough. And once you've used all the mixture, leave them to harden for a few hours.

I hope you enjoyed this little post. I'm all about simple and easy treats. 

Merry Christmas out there and have nice second Advent Sunday!