Hot Drink

These nourishing atoles — fruit-flavored drinks thickened with corn tortilla flour — are served much like hot chocolate. They are warming on cold mornings or evenings.

Try this one over ice, too.

(Turkish Coffee)

This recipe calls for semisweet chocolate; try a Mexican chocolate such as cinnamon-flavored Ibarra from Guadalajara if you can. If using Ibarra, omit the cinnamon sticks and brown sugar.

Here's the archetypal cocoa, topped with marshmallows and made even better by the addition of bittersweet chocolate.

This is also very good served hot.

A New Orleans specialty that combines dark coffee with brandy, citrus and spices, this gets its name from the French words for coffee and burnt brandy. We've added a couple of twists, spiking it with Grand Marnier and topping it with whipped cream.

Madeira is combined with Cointreau, honey and spices in a simple English-inspired hot drink for the holidays.

The best way to get warm and cozy after a day outdoors is with this drink, in Ireland known simply as "hot whiskey."