Chocolate Hot Buttered Rum Recipe (2024)

FAQs

Do chocolate and rum go together? ›

Experience tells us that aged rums combine very well with chocolates that have intense flavors thanks to a high percentage of cocoa, generally around 80%. Rums such as Diplomático Reserva Exclusiva has such a smooth and delicious taste that combines particularly well with the intensity and bitterness of the best cocoa.

Rum: Dark or spiced rum can give your hot chocolate an exciting Caribbean twist. Rum's natural sweetness and spicy undertones complement the rich cocoa beautifully, creating a blend that is smooth, warming and deeply comforting. Brandy: A shot of brandy can lend an enticing depth of flavour to your hot chocolate.

Spices: Grab cinnamon, nutmeg, and cloves to spice up the butter mixture. Rum: We loved the flavor of spiced rum in this drink. Dark rum would also work well. Or, make the drink with bourbon or whiskey.

The Tom & Jerry is much like making a Hot Buttered Rum. It all begins with mixing the spiced batter, which can be refrigerated or frozen until it's time for a drink. Once that is done, it's as simple as pouring warm milk over your liquor and batter.

Pair nutty chocolate with: Bourbon, rye or Scotch

For chocolate that has naturally nutty flavors, like single-origin bars from Central America or Venezuela or nut-studded confections, whiskey is your best bet. Look for bottlings with hints of walnut or almond.

Pairing Chocolate with Liquor

Though a few spirits fall out of these categories, it's generally accepted that the six types of distilled spirits are: brandy, gin, rum, tequila, vodka, and whiskey. Each pairs particularly well with chocolate, but the pairings depend on the blend in question.

Place dark chocolate and 2 ounces of vodka into small heatproof bowl (glass bowls work best), stir until chocolate is evenly coated and set aside. Fill a small pot ¼ full with water and heat on medium. Once water starts to steam, place bowl of chocolate and vodka on top and allow chocolate to melt.

This is Kahlua hot cocoa is my favorite hot cocoa. Others chose to add Baileys to the cocoa. Baileys hot chocolate is a smooth combination of the hot cocoa with Irish cream to create a boozy hot chocolate that may be way too easy to drink.

The Demerara rums from El Dorado work wonders, as does a robust Jamaican rum like Coruba, or something dark and mellow like Zaya or Zacapa.

Combine all ingredients in a bowl and mix well. Then ideally you'll refrigerate for a good 8-12 hours, as this will help the spices infuse into the butter.

When was hot buttered rum popular? ›

In the time before the American Revolution, no holiday celebration was complete without revelers lifting up glasses of hot buttered rum, or some similar rum concoction, and toasting the night away. Such was the tradition. Today, the drink is less popular, due, in part to, its high caloric content.

Known by many names around the world – including "Dark n' Stormy" in Bermuda, "Gangsters' Paradise Cooler" in Jamaica, and even simply as "Booze Soda" in some parts of the United States – this drink packs a powerful punch with its perfectly-balanced blend of sweet-and-sour flavors.

Hot buttered rum is a favorite winter drink, and it's irresistible. It is both sweet and warm, which is just the kind of comfort you want on the coldest days of the year.

"I was craving Irish Cream but too drunk to drive to the store and get whiskey to make it... but I had some spiced rum left over. It's sweet, it's spicy, it's a down-n-dirty chocolate milk."

The simplified answer is that chocolate contains fat (cocoa butter) and alcohol contains water. The fat in the chocolate and the water in the alcohol repel each other causing the chocolate to seize. When chocolate seizes it becomes grainy and hard - essentially unusable.

While there may be additional health benefits to eating chocolate, pairing it with alcohol might trigger gastrointestinal issues that harm the intestinal lining, especially if you are prone to digestive issues. Chocolate contains both caffeine and cocoa, which can exacerbate stomach problems and cause constant hunger.