drinking chocolate
drinking chocolate — noun
1. Drinking chocolate is a sweet powder made from cocoa that people stir into hot m
Drinking chocolate is a sweet powder made from cocoa that people stir into hot milk or water to prepare a warm beverage. The name is also used for the drink itself after it has been made.
On cold winter evenings, Zayd likes to make a cup of drinking chocolate before bed.
collocation: a cup of drinking chocolate
The café offers three sizes of drinking chocolate with whipped cream on top.
collocation: drinking chocolate with whipped cream
Sayaka stirred the drinking chocolate powder into hot milk until it was smooth.
This brand of drinking chocolate contains real cocoa and very little sugar.
Nikos bought a large tin of drinking chocolate from the shop near his flat.
- hot chocolate
more common in everyday speech for the prepared drink; 'drinking chocolate' often implies the powder form
- cocoa
shortened form, especially in British English; can also refer to the raw ingredient without sugar
文法句型
a [quantity] of drinking chocolate
drinking chocolate + [prepared drink noun]
用法筆記
Drinking chocolate is an uncountable noun in both meanings (the powder and the drink). You can count servings with expressions such as 'a cup of' or 'a tin of'.