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Mini-challenge 56: Bare your sole
Mini-challenge 57: Do a night walk
Mini-challenge 58: Climb a tower
Mini-challenge 59: Experiment with hot chocolate
Mandy Cooke: This is one of my all time favourite drinks! Hot milk with a heaped teaspoon of hot chocolate, quarter teaspoon of each cinnamon, turmeric and ginger. All whisked together for a mug of deliciousness! Wonderful by itself but even better with a chocolate ginger biscuit. Very warming - saves putting the heating on!
Cynthia Parton: Hot chocolate with brandy perhaps a bit too much brandy, hic
Clive Latimer: Try this one yourself, it's so warming, you can even see the difference. You will feel the warmth as it goes down and then you'll just glow. Mix ingredients as indicated in a mug and heat in a microwave oven. Pour into a flask, screw the top on and walk with it gently moving in your pocket until you are cold.
Sharon Relf: Made the flask of hot chocolate and added some Baileys, grabbed the squirty cream and some birthday chocs left over and headed off on our walk. We had to use the rucksack as a table as the ground wasn’t level enough to pour it out. I can highly recommend it!!
Lynn Young: Frothy hot chocolate with cream, maple syrup, marshmallows, diced almonds and orange and milk chocolate flakes. It was fantastic, a meal in itself.
Sam Morgan: An orange hot chocolate at our local castle. Enjoyed drinking it whilst planning our Secret Santa gifts!
Fiona Crockett: No secret, always my favourite ….just hot chocolate and Baileys on a chilly walk around Stourhead in Wiltshire.
Zuzana Belas: Not such an experiment, more symbolic as the chocolate power traveled it's own 1000 miles to be drunk!
