The next time you want to warm up with a cozy drink, try cacao powder hot chocolate (you read that right, it’s cacao, not ...

Whether it’s true hot chocolate — solid chocolate melted into milk or cream — or hot cocoa — sugar and cocoa powder frothed with milk — it’s your best beverage defense against winter.

If you are making it for kids or anyone who enjoys a gentler, more milky hot chocolate, add extra milk, to taste, for the final 30 minutes of cooking. Put the cocoa powder in a medium bowl.