Hot Chocolate

The other warm drink of the altar, and a natural partner for a piece of pan de muerto. A cup of hot chocolate is a traditional altar offering, set out to remember and honor the dead with something comforting. A tablet of Mexican table chocolate melted into water or milk and whisked until it foams is all it takes. It needs less time than atole, so it is the drink to choose when the altar goes up on a weeknight.