Recipe of Italian Hot Cocoa - Food Recipes

When I need a chocolate experience, I'll put together what I'm told is an Italian-style hot cocoa. I initially saw the recipe in the middle of an article in The New Yorker, which went something like this. (Sorry that I don't know the by-weight equivalents.) Mix 1/2 cup cocoa powder 1/3 cup white sugar 1 teaspoon cornstarch with 1/4 cup water in a saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly. Once this mixture comes to a boil, add 2 cups of liquid (water, brewed coffee, skim milk; the author recommended a cup of water and skim milk each) and stir over heat until heated through and mixed. This produces a thick, quite rich brew, not for children, but highly chocolate-concentrated. Clearly, it's pretty much just empty calories, but not that much of them, and the fat is only what comes in your cocoa.