There's a saying in Colombia: "chocolate sin queso es como amor sin beso", chocolate without cheese is like love without a kiss. Colombians grew up adding chunks of cheese to the bottom of their hot chocolate mugs. Have you ever had Columbian cheesy hot chocolate?

In 2017, Statista reported that 14% of Americans drank "two to three cups of hot chocolate per day on average." Do you drink hot chocolate daily (or almost daily)?

In order to prepare cheesy hot chocolate, pastilla chocolate blocks enriched with cinnamon and cloves are placed in a pot with water or milk, then stirred with a molinillo whisk to perfection. Next, the salty queso Campesino white cheese is added to the hot chocolate. And Seasoned Traveller reveals that you can replace queso Campesino with queso doble crema or the Mexican Oaxaca cheese. If all else fails, try using mozzarella, as it's the closest thing to those stringy cheeses. Are you going to try making this drink?

Hot chocolate is consumed around the world with lots of different ingredients. In Mexico, you can enjoy it with cayenne, India has a chai spiced white hot chocolate and in Hungary, it's enjoyed with Hungarian hot paprika. Do you have anything interesting you add to your hot chocolate? Comment below!