Tim's Hot Chocolate

Last Modified: July 20, 2023

Recipe

The ingredients listed below are for roughly one tablespoon of mix, which makes two fluid ounces of product. Obviously, one should scale this recipe to produce the desired quantity of output.


Notes

  • A little bit of salt is probably good, but I think there is a fair amount in the milk—be cautious here.

Ingredients

  • 1 g cocoa powder
  • 3 g stevia
  • 4 g powdered milk
  • 44g water

Procedure

  1. Mix dry ingredients
  2. Heat water
  3. Add dry ingredients to water

Appendix



Price per 8oz glass

The prices below are sourced from a local chain grocery store, retrieved 20 July 2023. In Pennsylvania, sales tax is not levied on non-prepared food items, such as those in this recipe.

Item Cost ($) Mass (oz) Mass (g) $/g
Cocoa 4.49 8 227 0.0198
Stevia 5.99 9.8 278 0.0215
Milk 5.79 9.6 272 0.0213

From this table, we conclude that the price per gram is $0.0212 (a weighted average of the ingredients).

If we are to prepare an 8 oz glass, we will require 4 Tbsp of mix; this is approximately 32 g of mix. Therefore our final cost is $0.678 (we assume the cost of water is negligible).