Warm up your insides on cold day with hot drink

A day on the slopes – or even just an hour of shoveling the driveway – calls for a rich, hot drink to help return feeling to frozen digits.

Hot Buttered Rum

1 cup brown sugar

1 stick (1/2 cup) butter

Pinch salt

1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, plus extra for garnish

1/4 teaspoon cardamom

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

2 cups apple cider

2 cups water

2 cups rum

Whipped cream

In a large saucepan, combine the brown sugar, butter, salt, 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg, cardamom, cinnamon, apple cider and water. Bring to a simmer over medium-low heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer 10 minutes.

Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the rum. Ladle the drink into mugs, then top each with whipped cream and a pinch of nutmeg.

Yield: 6 servings

Nutrition per serving: Unable to calculate.

Hot Cherry Chocolate

6 cups whole milk

2 cups heavy cream

1 1/2 cups chocolate syrup

1/2 cup plus 2 tablespoons maraschino cherry syrup

1 tablespoon powdered sugar

4 red maraschino cherries with stems

In a medium saucepan over medium heat, combine the milk, 1 cup of cream, the chocolate syrup and 1/2 cup of the cherry syrup. Cook, stirring, until the mixture has bubbles around the edge of the pan. Do not boil. Reduce heat to low to keep warm.

Use an electric mixer to beat the remaining cream until foamy. While beating, gradually add the powdered sugar and remaining cherry syrup. Beat until soft peaks form.

Ladle the hot chocolate into mugs. Spoon whipped cream over each and top with a cherry.

Yield: 4 servings

Nutrition per serving: Unable to calculate.