This isone of my favourite products. I drank 'instant' hot chocolate for years, believing that the 'proper' hot chocolate was far more inconvenient to make, and that it tasted the same.
It was this exact brand of hot chocolate that made me change my mind - you need milk to make it, but semi-skimmed will do if you're diet-conscious, and it takes the same amount of time to make as the average 'instant' choc drink. Two myths are about to be busted:
The first myth - that it is inconvenient:
This drinking chocolate requires you to do the following things to make one cup of choccy drink:
1) Pour milk into mug.
2) Microwave mug for roughly 40 seconds, depending upon the strength of the oven.
3) Stir in 3 heaped spoons of the hot chocolate powder.
4) Use a milk frother to give it a good creamy head (this is optional, but worth it!)
How hard is that? The 'instant' alternative (Clipper make one, by the way, and it's good - for an instant - but nowhere near as good as this) requires you to:
1) pour water into kettle
2) Wait for it to boil (60 seconds perhaps?)
3) Mix powder into water
The taste of this Clipper hot chocolate is simply wonderful. It's better than most stuff you get in good cafes; there's so much intense, cocoa buzz and creamy, hot comfort that you'll never go back to the watery, so-called 'instant' variety again.
That's the second myth banished, by the way - hot chocolate made with water will NEVER taste the same as hot chocolate made with milk. Various companies will try their best to tell you otherwise. Don't let them persuade you - it ISN'T true.
If you love chocolate, get some of this if you haven't already tried it - it's gorgeous. I get a dizzy rush from it sometimes. I've tried every luxury brand I can find, and this is my favourite out of all of them. It's available in all good supermarkets, too.
My friends all talk about my hot choclate that I make for them - it's no secret - it's this stuff! I'd never drink the instant version again, either. Think of the difference between fresh coffee and instant, and you'll know why :)