National Hot Chocolate Day is on January 31st. Jacques Torres shares his tips and tricks to help you make the best hot chocolate at home.

If you are making it for kids or anyone who enjoys a gentler, more milky hot chocolate, add extra milk, to taste, for the final 30 minutes of cooking. Put the cocoa powder in a medium bowl.

Those envelopes of hot cocoa mix with tiny ... latte or eaten a brownie made with espresso powder, you know that coffee boosts the flavor of chocolate. Start with 1½ teaspoons of the instant ...

The Hershey's Special Dark product is ... a lot of that ends up as cocoa powder for cooking and hot-chocolate sipping. One place it really shines is in chocolate buttercream, where your choice ...

To make one cup of hot chocolate, you will need about 2 ounces of milk, semi-sweet, dark or white chocolate. Chop the chocolate, then melt it the microwave. In a pot on the stove, gently warm 1 cup of ...