As the colder weather sets in, wrap your gloved fingers around a cup of hot chocolate from one of our favourite Cambridge establishments…
Chocolat Chocolat
Visit this pretty duck-egg blue shop on St Andrews Street for a sip of thick, smooth hot chocolate – European style. These beautiful bevies are made using real, melted chocolate pieces, and you can buy bags of hot chocolate flakes to make at home. www.chocolatchocolat.co.uk
Cafe Aromi
This lovely Sicilian Café (now with three shops in Cambridge!) serves a mean authentic hot chocolate. It’s freshly made on site every morning with top quality cocoa and creamy milk – best enjoyed with one of their bite-size pasticceria. www.aromi.co.uk
Hotel Chocolat cafe
For a choice of flavours and toppings, head for the newly-opened Hotel Chocolat Cafe in Lion Yard. Indulge in a thick, creamy cup of salted caramel hot chocoate or chilli chocolate – all made using real chocolate, of course. Then add a free topping of ‘Chocolate Whip’ and perhaps some nut sprinkles, and you’re away. www.hotelchocolat.com/uk/cocoa-bar-cafes
6 Ice Cream
We’ve loved swooning over pics from this new opening on Bene’t Street recently – none more so than this one of their heavenly looking hot chocolates, served with generous dollop of handmade ice cream… www.6icecream.co.uk
Warming Your Cockles
For gloriously creamy hot chocolate on the hoof, swing a detour by the lovely Warming Your Cockles coffee truck, regularly found at foodPark, by Cambridge station. We adore their red velvet version; the recipe for which is a closely guarded secret… www.warmingyourcockles.com
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