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Ogre Eyes Hot Cocoa

10 reviews
Total Time
Prep/Total Time: 25 min.

Recipe by Jeannie Klugh, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Tested by Taste of Home Test Kitchen

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Updated Oct. 20, 2022

Here's looking at you! Halloween guests of all ages will get a kick out of this eerie "vision" staring back at them. It couldn't be easier to make. —Jeannie Klugh, Lancaster, Pennsylvania

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Ogre Eyes Hot Cocoa

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10 reviews
Prep Time 5 min
Cook Time 20 min
Yield 8 servings

Ingredients

  • 8 cups milk
  • 1 cup mint chocolate chips
  • 1 cup instant hot cocoa mix
  • 16 large marshmallows
  • 16 Crows candies
  • 16 lollipop sticks
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Directions

  1. In a large saucepan, combine 1 cup milk, chocolate chips and cocoa mix. Cook and stir over low heat until chips are melted. Stir in remaining milk; heat through.
  2. Meanwhile, cut a slit in top of each marshmallow; insert a candy. Carefully insert a lollipop stick through the bottom of each marshmallow and into each candy.
  3. Pour hot cocoa into mugs or cups; place two prepared marshmallows in each cup. Serve immediately.