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I made King Louis XV’s favorite hot chocolate recipe -- and you’ll never believe what’s in it!
Louis XV’s favorite hot chocolate recipe contains a surprising secret ingredient…. In honor of my new novel, Wolves and Brioches , I wanted to try to make one of the sweet treats mentioned in the book. Unfortunately, I don’t have the skills to make an amazing brioche, nor can I cast the spell to conjure one, much to my son’s disappointment. But hot chocolate was certainly do-able. An everyday indulgence…for those who could afford it In Wolves and Brioches , drinking a cup of hot chocolate is a daily ritual for Odette and her mother. This was actually the case for many French nobles and aristocrats of the time. Chocolate wouldn’t become affordable to the average person until the invention of the cacao press by Coenraad Johannes van Houten in the late 1820’s, so in the 1760’s, when Wolves and Brioches takes place, it was truly a luxury treat…and also a bit of an obsession among many of the people who could afford it. Famous 18 th ...