HOT and ICE Chocolate MIX

Two Preparations, One Box

For the hot sachets, stir the powder into hot milk for the thickest, most traditional cup, or hot water for something lighter.

For the ice chocolate sachets, a common approach is to dissolve the powder first in a small amount of hot water or hot milk — the same way you'd bloom instant coffee — then top with cold milk and ice once it's fully mixed in, rather than trying to dissolve powder directly into a cold glass. Shaking it with cold milk in a covered shaker or jar works too.

If You Already Make Iced Coffee

The over-ice approach here isn't far from how a lot of people already make iced coffee at home. DABOV's cold brew uses the same basic idea — a concentrate or powder prepared to go over ice rather than steamed hot.

Did You Know

• The original cacao drink of the Maya and Aztec was often served cold or at room temperature, not hot. Historical accounts describe it poured back and forth between vessels to build a thick foam, then drunk unheated and unsweetened — the modern assumption that "chocolate drink" means "hot" is a much later, largely European habit.

• Italian cafés have long served a cold counterpart to hot drinking chocolate. Cioccolata fredda — cold drinking chocolate — shows up on Italian café menus alongside the hot version, especially in summer, the same way many cafés stock both a hot and an iced version of espresso.

• Offering the same drink in both hot and cold form isn't unique to chocolate. Coffee shops routinely sell an espresso-based drink as both a hot and an iced version from the same base ingredients; a box like this one applies the same hot-or-cold logic to drinking chocolate instead of espresso.

What is ice chocolate?

A cocoa-based drinking-chocolate powder formulated for cold milk and ice rather than hot milk — the cold-weather version of a drinking-chocolate sachet.

Is ice chocolate the same as chocolate milk?

It's aimed at a similar cold, cocoa-forward result, but it's sold and prepared as its own single-serve powder rather than a ready-mixed dairy drink.

What's in this box?

An assortment of single-serve sachets covering both the hot and the ice chocolate side of the ChocoTigo range.

How do I prepare the ice chocolate sachets?

Dissolve the powder in a little hot water or milk first, then top with cold milk and ice — trying to stir powder straight into a cold glass tends to leave it undissolved.

Is there a hot-only or ice-only version of this assortment?

Yes — HOT Chocolate MIX covers just the warm sachets; the ice-chocolate range has the cold-only flavors on their own.

Can I drink the hot sachets cold or the ice sachets hot?

Each is formulated for its intended preparation, so sticking to hot milk for the hot sachets and cold milk/ice for the ice sachets will give the most consistent result.