Chocolate-River Drinking Chocolate

Serve when

Pour it as the doors open on the Chocolate Room — a river of it, churned by waterfall, moments before Augustus goes in face-first.

Before you start

It's just a warm-and-whisk stovetop job — ten minutes start to finish, so put it on shortly before the reveal.

Cook-along start: ~0:46

In the movie

Theatrical

00:56:28 The Chocolate Room's river — 'the most important room in the factory' — churned by waterfall ('the waterfall is most important — mixes the chocolate!') and sampled disastrously by Augustus Gloop.

Wonka's river is drinking chocolate at landscape scale — mixed by waterfall, "the only way to do it properly." A mug of proper thick drinking chocolate is the closest legal recreation; the recipe scales up, but keep your balance.

Ingredients

3 cups whole milk
½ cup heavy cream
6 oz dark chocolate, chopped
2 tablespoons cocoa
2 tablespoons sugar
Pinch of salt
½ teaspoon vanilla

Method

Heat the milk and cream to steaming.
Whisk in the chocolate, cocoa, sugar, and salt until thick and river-glossy.
Finish with vanilla.
Serve in mugs, not by leaning into the pot. We lost a good man that way.