Dark Drinking Chocolate
Dello Mano Dark Drinking Chocolate is a small-batch blend made with real Belgian dark chocolate and rich cocoa, finished with gentle spice and a subtle touch of chilli warmth.
Dark, rich and layered, it is made for those who want more from a cup of hot chocolate. The real chocolate brings depth to the blend, while the spice and chilli sit quietly in the background, leaving a gentle warmth at the finish.
Drinking chocolate has a long history at Dello Mano, from our early New Farm Farmers Market days to Deborah’s years of professional food product development. This new 180 g blend brings that experience into a drinking chocolate to prepare and enjoy at home.
180 g | Approximately 6 serves | Made in small batches in Brisbane
How to make
Use 30 g per serve. Add a small amount of hot water and stir until smooth. Add warm milk heated to a comfortable drinking temperature, stir well and enjoy.
Storage
Once opened, store in a cool, dry place and fully reseal the inner bag after each use.
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Made with real Belgian dark chocolate and rich cocoa, with gentle spice and a subtle chilli warmth, this is a darker, more layered kind of drinking chocolate.
A darker, richer kind of hot chocolate
The first impression is dark chocolate: rich, rounded and deeply cocoa-led. Gentle spice follows, with just a touch of chilli warmth appearing quietly at the finish.
The chilli is not intended to dominate the cup. It sits behind the chocolate, adding warmth and complexity rather than heat.
Made for a quiet morning, an afternoon pause or the simple pleasure of something genuinely good at the end of the day.
Made with real Belgian dark chocolate
For us, drinking chocolate should begin with the chocolate.
We blend rich cocoa with real Belgian dark chocolate to create a deeper, fuller chocolate experience. The result is a dark drinking chocolate with layers of flavour: chocolate first, gentle spice through the cup and subtle chilli warmth at the finish.
Our drinking chocolate story began at the markets
Long before this drinking chocolate was packed into a canister, hot chocolate had already become part of the Dello Mano story.
Bien is pictured here at one of our first New Farm Farmers Market days in Brisbane in 2007. In those early market years, I would begin making a large batch at around 2am, ready for the 5am market start. The hot chocolate began with an old Mayan-style recipe that I adapted over time.
People began queuing for it. Some travelled from the Gold Coast with thermoses. Others brought an extra thermos to take hot chocolate home for a flatmate who was not prepared to get up early enough for the market.
Years later, while we were preparing our West End store, a woman stopped her car after recognising us as “the hot chocolate people from the markets.” After all that time, she still remembered the hot chocolate she and her husband had shared in those early Dello Mano days.
Drinking chocolate also reaches further back into my professional life, through years spent working with drinking chocolate during her earlier career in food product development.
This packaged blend is a new drinking chocolate—not the same prepared recipe we served at the markets—but it continues a part of the Dello Mano story that has been with us for many years.
How to make Dello Mano Drinking Chocolate
For one cup, use 30 g of Dark Drinking Chocolate.
Add a small amount of hot water and stir until smooth. Add warm milk heated to a comfortable drinking temperature, stir well and enjoy.
Each 180 g canister makes approximately six serves.
Make it in four simple steps
1. Measure
Add 30 g of drinking chocolate to your cup.
2. Stir
Add a small amount of hot water and stir until smooth.
3. Add warm milk
Pour in milk heated to a comfortable drinking temperature.
4. Enjoy
Stir well and enjoy.
Dark Drinking Chocolate details
Net weight: 180 g
Serves: Approximately 6
Made with: Real Belgian dark chocolate and rich cocoa
Flavour: Dark chocolate with gentle spice and subtle chilli warmth
Made in: Brisbane, Australia
Production: Small batch
Preparation: 30 g per serve
Storage: Once opened, store in a cool, dry place and fully reseal the inner bag after each use.
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Dark Drinking Chocolate FAQs
Yes. Our Dark Drinking Chocolate is made with real Belgian dark chocolate as well as rich cocoa, creating a deep, chocolate-led flavour.
No. The chilli provides a subtle warmth at the finish rather than a strong or fiery chilli flavour. The chocolate remains at the centre of the experience.
Use 30 g per serve. Add a small amount of hot water and stir until smooth. Add warm milk heated to a comfortable drinking temperature, stir well and enjoy.
Each 180 g canister makes approximately six serves when prepared using 30 g per cup.
Store in a cool, dry place and fully reseal the inner bag after each use.
Our Dark Drinking Chocolate is made in small batches in Brisbane, Australia.
Drinking chocolate has been part of the Dello Mano story since our early New Farm Farmers Market days, when customers queued for our prepared hot chocolate and brought thermoses to take it home. Deborah also spent years working with drinking chocolate during her earlier career in food product development. This packaged blend is a new product, but it continues a genuine part of our history with chocolate.
Handmade in Brisbane since 2006