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Welcome back to Christmas Week! This annual event was started in 2012, and is hosted by Kim of Cravings of a Lunatic. This year we have over 35 bloggers sharing festive sweet recipes for the event, plus we all chipped in for a huge Amazon Gift Card Giveaway. Be sure to enter… full details are at the bottom of the post!
Today’s recipe is inspired by one of my favourite wintertime rituals, which involves curling up with a big mug of hot cocoa topped off with a big fat marshmallow.
My version of hot cocoa is as straightforward as it gets – just hot milk with cocoa powder and sugar whisked in, though I do add a dash of ground cinnamon to give it a little extra oomph.
This year, though, winter’s been taking its sweet time…
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