Nutella Hot Chocolate!

When I heard that there was a cafe selling this, I thought, "Finally!" Nutella and chocolate is actually a very commonsensical and popular combination, so I'm surprised that so few cafes have this on their menu. Anyway, this was from Yellow Cup Coffee @ Central Square, Singapore.

Yellow Cup did this very well indeed! The hazelnut flavour well elicited in a holistic fashion. Naturally, there was the sweetly nutty part of the hazelnut flavour, but unlike the typical hazelnut syrup that stops there, this hot chocolate also had the hint of woodiness in the hazelnut flavour that makes it such a good complement with chocolate.

It was also not too sweet, like many drinks which use the hazelnut syrups (e.g. Starbucks and other cafes which use the typical syrup repertoire). So it really makes me wonder what they used for it... maybe some hazelnut powder or something.

It was also very milky... like Kinder chocolates. =)

It cost about S$8 for a large, 16oz cup I believe. A bit on the high side... but Starbucks would have charged something similar, and the ambience here is much nicer, with more spacious and homely seats, and definitely fewer people.

And as you can see, they actually hand-drew on the coffee cups! Not just one, but two pictures. I liked that they chose cute motifs. I also suppose this may have been to make up for the use of non-yellow cups, which seem to be available only for their regular (8oz) coffee cups. Finally, I was glad that they tried to do some latte art even in a takeaway cup. So the experience, though a little bit pricey, was quite a treat.

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