Guess what? There are only THREE Winter Wednesdays left in 2025. After that, it’s Spring! Spring starts on a Thursday this year. Spring is officially 21 days away from us! So close. We can get there.
Also, if you want a very exact countdown, check out this Countdown to Spring site (for the Northern Hemisphere). It’s counting down to seconds until Spring arrives!
However, it’s still a Winter Wednesday today despite the wonderful weather (sunshine and feels like 52 degrees at 9:30 in the morning? Sold!).
And I’m still trying a different hot chocolate every week this winter. Two different kinds for this week and a special guest judge for the first tasting.
Evaporated Milk Hot Chocolate
I had high hopes for this Evaporated Milk Hot Chocolate. And a special guest judge as J was home and interested in trying it as well. The nice thing about this recipe was having everything needed in the pantry. J opted to try his with just marshmallows as the topping. He’s a traditionalist. 
I wanted something a little fancier so added a bit of whipped cream, marshmallows, and mini chocolate chips to mine.
The verdict: Sadly, neither of us were big fans of this one. J thought it tasted too sharp and thought that came from the chocolate chips in the it. (The recipe calls for 1/3 cup of chocolate chips) He added a bit of whipped cream to his hot chocolate to see if that helped. He said it did not.
My thoughts were simply that it had a bit of a funky aftertaste to it. It wasn’t the worst hot chocolate I’ve tried but definitely not going on the make again list. Only variations I made to original recipe were to cut it in half as I only had one can of evaporated milk in the pantry. Also, I used brown sugar instead of white but I don’t think that had a bearing on our opinions.
Bonus Mug: Banana Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate
As I’ve been under the weather a bit this week, I was still craving something in the warm treat variety for the afternoon yesterday. I’d debated this banana peanut butter hot chocolate while researching recipes to try. Since I had a couple bananas quickly passing the banana bread stage on the counter, I decided to give this a try. 
This one I would make again! It was surprisingly good and very satisfying. That’s something as I’m not a huge banana person. I did ocasional get little bits of banana while drinking this but simply mushing the banana better would avoid that.
I followed the recipe more or less. Things I did differently: used a whole almost black banana (I’d definitely only use half a ripe one), didn’t really measure my peanut butter (eye-balled a tablespoon so maybe went a bit over). And I topped my mug with extra peanut butter as opposed to a banana slice.
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As I said at the beginning of the post, only 3 hot chocolates to go! Any suggestions for unique hot chocolates I need to try? Are you counting down the days, hours, minutes, and seconds until spring along with me?
I love how you put it dear Jean – only 3 Wednesdays to Spring!! Yay! We can totally do that. These false Spring days are sure giving me life, so that helps too.
Sorry about the bummer hot chocolate …but the banana one sounds good! Of course bananas and chocolate just “go” together and I love anything banana really. Lol
Did you already do a s’mores hot chocolate? I don’t remember? Where you toast the marshmallows for the top? Maybe you did? I can’t think of anything else that you haven’t tired. 😂
And you know I”m over here counting down the days to lovely Spring!! 💚💚💚