My new job provides coffee and as I recently learned, hot chocolate. More specifically Swiss Miss. The box is untouched for obvious reasons, but me being the fat kid I am have developed a way to make this hot chocolate go from being the La Croix of hot chocolates, to the Polar brand it thinks it is.

First, you want a cup that can hold at least 12oz of fluid. To it, you’ll add two packets of SM hot chocolate.

Next, you’ll want two thimbles of half-and-half or cream. Thimbles are the packets you get with coffee at a diner and they’re generally 9ml. This means you’ll want 18ml of cream or half-and-half, or ~3.5 teaspoons if you’re measuring in “freedom” units.

Mix these ingredients together to get a chocolatey sludge and no dry spots remain.

Next, add 10oz (1.25 cups) of boiling water and stir well.

It’s not the best hot chocolate, but it transforms it from being the 1994 Carolla wagon you were conceived in into a gently used 5 year old Camry you own on your own.