Bakery Hot Cocoa

Serve when

Pour it at Osono's counter after a long day of deliveries — the drink of a warm bakery kitchen with the rain outside.

What to drink

Kiki's home base is a bakery, and the drink of Osono's warm kitchen — for a thirteen-year-old courier after a rainy shift — is hot cocoa: milky, sweet, restorative. A suggested pairing for a film that runs on baked goods and mothering; brew it the bakery way, with real chocolate and a pan, not a packet.

What to drink

Cocoa is the bakery's own comfort — milky enough for a young witch, rich enough to count as wages.

Ingredients

2 cups whole milk
3 oz milk chocolate, chopped, plus 1 tablespoon cocoa
1 tablespoon sugar
pinch of salt
½ teaspoon vanilla

Method

Heat the milk to steaming in a saucepan.
Whisk in the chocolate, cocoa, sugar, and salt until smooth.
Finish with vanilla; froth with a whisk.
Serve at a flour-dusted counter to someone whose broom won't fly. It helps.