Lesson learned: If making chocolate milk without the benefit of a store bought chocolate milk mix, yes you must add sugar to the baking cocoa. Well, I suppose people who like their coffee bitter might be willing to drink the result, but I am most certainly not a coffee drinker.

On the other hand, lesson two: Powdered sugar will mix into the milk quite readily.

Lesson three. A simple mix of cocoa, powdered sugar, and a light touch of salt makes a perfectly good hot chocolate. No need for all those additives the commercial mixes have. Of course a splash of vanilla would have made it even better, but I used the last of my vanilla on the cookies I baked last week.

Which raises a question. How long will a cookie dough that includes eggs stay good in the fridge? I still have a little of the dough left over. But I'm starting to wonder if I've let it sit too long.