Spiked hot chocolate is the perfect way to warm up on a cold winter day. And if you’re not content with just any run-of-the-mill hot cocoa, these five spiked recipes will help you spice things up. Each one uses a different type of chocolate liqueur—Irish cream, peppermint schnapps, Kahlua, or Bailey’s—so you can experiment with different flavors and find your favorite!

Hot chocolate is a great winter drink for kids and adults alike, and it’s an easy way to get kids to eat more chocolate. In fact, hot chocolate has been shown to improve brain function and memory in young adults when eaten regularly… which means it can be used as an educational tool!

There are many ways to make hot chocolate: you can use milk or cream; you can add sugar or sweeten it naturally with honey; you can even spike your cup with rum or bourbon if that’s how you roll. The key is finding the right balance between sweet, creamy goodness (the kind that makes your heart skip a beat) and rich decadence (the kind that makes your stomach growl).

• Make sure your chocolate is high quality. This will affect the taste of your drink, so choose wisely!
• Use a good-quality liqueur or whiskey in your recipe (or both!) It will really enhance the flavor of the drink.
• Make sure your heat source isn’t too high when heating up the liquid mixture; otherwise it’ll burn before getting fully integrated into everything else… which means no deliciousness at all! Instead, just keep an eye on what temperature setting is being used so there doesn’t end up being too much oxidation happening during the cooking time (oxidization makes food go bad faster).