Last Fall my two teen girls and I flew to New York city and enjoyed some girl time. While in New York City we had the opportunity to visit the famous Serendipity 3 restaurant. One of the many famous menu items is their frozen hot chocolate. I recently came across the supposed famous recipe on line and thought you might enjoy it as well.
Serendipity Frozen Hot Chocolate Recipe
By: Stephanie Gallagher, About.com Guide . Reprinted with permission.
Frozen hot chocolate may sound like a contradiction, but The New York restaurant Serendipity 3 made frozen hot chocolate an institution. This is the original Serendipity frozen hot chocolate recipe, but I’ve tweaked the method a bit to make it easier for kids to make all by themselves.
With my version, you don’t have to melt the chocolate on the stove. And you can even use chocolate chips if you don’t want to chop the chocolate yourself.
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- 6 oz. chopped semisweet chocolate (or chocolate chips)
- 3 cups whole milk, divided
- 1 Tbsp. plus 1 tsp. your favorite powdered hot chocolate mix
- 3 Tbsp. sugar
- 6 cups ice cubes
- whipped cream for garnish
Preparation:
- Place chopped chocolate and 1/4 cup of the milk in a microwave-safe container. Heat on 50% power for 1 minute. Stir.
- Heat on 50% power for 30 seconds. Stir. If necessary, continue heating in 30-second increments until chocolate is melted.
- Add hot chocolate mix and sugar. Stir.
- Slowly pour in 1/2 cup of the milk. Stir, and let cool to room temperature.
- Pour cooled chocolate mixture into blender. Add remaining milk and ice cubes. Puree until smooth.
- Top with whipped cream and serve immediately.
Makes 2 giant frozen hot chocolates.
Whoa!!!!!!!!! That is some dessert. LOL
It is one of my favourite sweet. Thanks for this mouth watering recipe. Looks yummy. I will make it at my birth day.
I love these. Anything made from dark chocolate makes me feel good. Thanks.
I made these tonight and they are awesome! I am diabetic so I did use splenda instead of sugar, sugar free hot chocolate mix and sugar free whip topping. I added double the hot chocolate mix and only used 1/2 of the milk chocolate chips. Tastes great with less sugar! Thanks!
This looks so delicious! My girls are going to love it! I featured this on my pinterest finds post. http://www.lovebugliving.com/2011/12/pinterest-christmas-inspiration.html
I have had the frozen hot chocolate from Serendipity and it’s amazing! So if this recipe is close then it’s amazing! Gonna try it! Thanks for posting!
Pretty good, but next time I am going to try milk chocolate instead of simi sweet
Jessica has a great idea, maybe with 1/2 dark and 1/2 milk chocolate. I will try it first with the semi sweet then decide after that.
I just made this ——— my goodness it makes a lot. We have an antique blender and it wouldn’t even hold 4 cups of cubes, so I put half the mix in a bowl and added another 2 cups. That filled it again……………It really made a ton, so we put the rest in the freezer and we’ll see what happens. I am thinking that more modern blenders have MUCH bigger containers!!! It is awfully darn good, though.
Made these tonight. Yum! I used milk chocolate chips and I also couldn’t fit all those ice cubes in my blender.
Looks sooo lovely i am going to make it soon