Banana Boats and hot chocolate

After dinner I noticed that the fire had died down a bit and that it had some lovely hot embers glowing. I thought it would be neat to wrap up some bananas in foil and pop them in to cook. I sliced them open and dropped in some drinking chocolate (recipe below), wrapped them up and put them on the hot embers for about 5mins.

Mmmmm....

I've never made these before - mostly due to the absence of tinfoil. I don't usually buy foil, but for some reason got some a few weeks ago, so it was nice to do this as a wee treat.

I have been making our own drinking chocolate for about 6 years now. When Nathan could no longer drink most of the store-bought drinking chocolates due to the gluten in them, I searched around the net for recipes.

This is a fairly standard one, and is good because the kids can make it up themselves very quickly.

Into a jar I fill 1/3 with cocoa, and 2/3 with milk powder (gives it a creamier taste adding powder rather than just relying on the milk in the drink). This mixture doesn't have sugar, so isn't very nice when it's made as a hot chocolate (but the kids don't mind it when they drink it cold), so we add sugar to taste if needed. If premixing and wanting to use sugar, I make it as 1/4 sugar, 1/4 cocoa, and 1/2 milk powder.

There are other blends that alter the flavour a bit - the addition of vanilla pods, or other spices such as cinnamon or nutmeg, and even chili for a Mexican hot chocolate.