Category Archives: 2025
Sesame Hot Chocolate
Sesame Hot Chocolate
Neko Ngeru Cafe
Drink Details
Name of Your Hot Chocolate: Sesame Hot Chocolate
Primary flavour or flavours: Chocolate and sesame
Description of Your Hot Chocolate: Dark, rich chocolate melded with nutty sesame, it's feels like having a warm, satisfying meal and a friendly hug.
Ingredients in Your Hot Chocolate: Milk (regular or oat)
Chocolate
Sesame paste
Cost of Your Hot Chocolate: 6.00
Child size available: No
Available after Challenge ends?: No
Location
Level 1, 215 High Street,
Lower Hutt
Openning Hours
Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 10am - 4pm
Thursday 10am - 1pm, and 4 - 8pm
Friday 10am - 1pm, and 5 - 8pm
Champorado!
Champorado!
Espresso High
Drink Details
Name of Your Hot Chocolate: Champorado!
Primary flavour or flavours: Dark chocolate, rice and hints of coconut
Description of Your Hot Chocolate: We've turned one of our favourite Filipino dishes into a cozy drink! Champorado is originally a creamy rice porridge flavoured with tablea (pure ground roasted cacao) and evaporated milk. To keep this authentic flavor, we've used tablea all the way from Davao, and coconut condensed milk as the base of our drink. Frothy, steamed rice and oat milk is then poured on top with an optional sprinkling of milo and milk powder. Come experience a cozy "cold" day in the Philippines! Vegan and gluten free options available of course <3
Ingredients in Your Hot Chocolate: Tablea, Coconut Condensed Milk, Glutinous Rice, Oat Milk (can be substituted) and Rice Milk
Cost of Your Hot Chocolate: $7.5 - small , $9 .5 large
Child size available: No
Available after Challenge ends?: Yes
Location
110 High Street,
Lower Hutt
Openning Hours
Monday-Friday : 6.30am - 2.00pm
Saturday : 7.30am - 2.00pm
Peppermint or Golden Caramel Hug
Peppermint or Golden Caramel Hug
Sierra Cafe
Drink Details
Primary flavour or flavours: Peppermint or Salted Caramel
Description of Your Hot Chocolate: A luxurious hot chocolate, swirled with your choice of refreshing peppermint syrup or buttery salted caramel. Each cup is comes with Whittaker's chocolate and delicious homemade brownie, making it the ultimate chocolate lover's dream.
Ingredients in Your Hot Chocolate: Peppermint syrup / Salted caramel syrup, chocolate , milk or alternative milk, chocolate syrup, peppermint brownie / caramel brownie
Cost of Your Hot Chocolate: normal size $10.90 , kids size $9.60
Child size available: Yes
Available after Challenge ends?: Yes
Location
Queensgate Shopping Centre
Lower Hutt
Openning Hours
9am - 5:30pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday
9am - 8:30pm Thursday
9am - 5:30pm Friday, Saturday
10am- 5pm Sunday
Hot Chocolate Eclair
Hot Chocolate Eclair
Muffin Break Queensgate
Drink Details
Primary flavour or flavours: Chocolate and Vanilla
Description of Your Hot Chocolate: A vanilla flavoured Hot Chocolate with dollops of whipped cream on top covered with crushed flake and drizzled with chocolate syrup, with a mini Chocolate Eclair in the side.
Ingredients in Your Hot Chocolate: See above
Cost of Your Hot Chocolate: Small $6.50 Medium $7.50 Large $8.50
Child size available: Yes
Available after Challenge ends?: Yes
Location
Queensgate Shopping Centre
Lower Hutt
Openning Hours
8.30am to 6.00 pm with 9.00pm Thursdays and 5.30pm Sundays
Dulce & Creamy Hot Chocolate
Dulce & Creamy Hot Chocolate
Mariana's Kitchen
Drink Details
Name of Your Hot Chocolate: Dulce & Creamy hot chocolate
Primary flavour or flavours: chocolate & dulce de leche
Description of Your Hot Chocolate: This year’s Mariana’s Kitchen’s creamy goodness, a family hot chocolate recipe with traditional Argentinian dulce de leche, milk and cream. Paired with a homemade bite-size dulce de leche fudge
Ingredients in Your Hot Chocolate: Milk
Chocolate
Cream
Dulce de leche
Cost of Your Hot Chocolate: $7.50
Child size available: Yes
Available after Challenge ends?: No
Location
2 Queens Drive,
Lower Hutt
Openning Hours
Monday to Friday 8 to 3
Saturday 9 to 3.30
Salted Caramel Fix
Salted Caramel Fix
Fix Federation
Drink Details
Name of Your Hot Chocolate: Salted Caramel Fix
Primary flavour or flavours: Salted Caramel
Description of Your Hot Chocolate: Back in 2018, this beauty WON the annual Hutt Hot Chocolate Challenge! It was Fix Federation’s first entry and this year, we’re making it our last! Let’s send Fix Federation out with a Salted Caramel BANG.
A luxuriously smooth salted caramel flavoured hot chocolate. Topped with our signature whipped cream and our house made caramel. Dip into it with 2 award winning salted caramel cookies sandwiched together with our infamous caramel and dunked in chocolate. Simple and delicious - everything Fix Federation has stood for.
At this point, Fix Federation’s last trading day will be in September, 2025. We are making way for the Te Wai Takamori o te Awa Kairangi RiverLink Project and Fix Federation is being acquired by Greater Wellington Regional Council for the works. You can also find the force behind Fix Federation at Janus Bakkerij, 700 High Street, Boulcott, Lower Hutt!
Ingredients in Your Hot Chocolate: Hot chocolate powder, milk, salted caramel, salted caramel syrup, whipped cream, crunchy pearls, salted caramel cookie sandwich.
Cost of Your Hot Chocolate: $9 regular, $10.50 large
Child size available: No
Available after Challenge ends?: Yes
Location
79 High Street,
Lower Hutt
Openning Hours
Monday - Saturday: 6:15am - 6pm
Mid Winter’d
Mid Winter'd
Coffee'd
Drink Details
Name of Your Hot Chocolate: Mid Winter'd
Primary flavour or flavours: Gingerbread with hints of cinnamon, maple syrup & vanilla bean
Description of Your Hot Chocolate: Warm up with the spices of mid-winter Christmas in every sip. A cozy gingerbread-spiced hot drink topped with a sweet maple vanilla bean whipped cream. Served with a crisp gingerbread man mixed spice biscuit..
Ingredients in Your Hot Chocolate: Gingerbread Syrup, Maple Syrup, Cinnamon, Frothed Milk, Mixed Spice Gingerbread Man, Vanilla Bean Whipped Cream
Cost of Your Hot Chocolate: $11 (L) $9 (S)
Child size available: Yes
Available after Challenge ends?: No
Location
1 Margaret Street,
Lower Hutt
Openning Hours
Monday - Friday: 7:30am - 3:30pm
Saturday & Sunday: 9.00am - 12.00pm
Dubai style Pistachio Hot Chocolate
Dubai style Pistachio Hot Chocolate
Twentyeight
Drink Details
Name of Your Hot Chocolate: Dubai style pistachio Hot Chocolate
Primary flavour or flavours: Chocolate and pistachio
Description of Your Hot Chocolate: Italian style deluxe hot chocolate with a pistachio mousse, topped with a kataifi and pistachio praline.
Ingredients in Your Hot Chocolate: Pistachio spread
Pistachio kataifi praline
Cows milk
Hot chocolate powder
cream
Cost of Your Hot Chocolate: 9.5
Child size available: No
Available after Challenge ends?: No
Location
28 Cornwall Street,
Lower Hutt
Openning Hours
Monday-Friday 7:00 - 3:00
Saturday 8:30 - 2:30
Blancho Bliss
Blancho Bliss
Tutaki Cafe
Drink Details
Name of Your Hot Chocolate: Blancho Bliss
Primary flavour or flavours: Pistachio
Description of Your Hot Chocolate: Indulgence with a cultural twist
Savor the warmth of this luxurious blend where creamy white chocolate meets earthy matcha and the subtle nuttiness of roasted pistachios. Infused with a hint of pure vanilla extract, each sip offers a harmonious balance of sweetness and depth. Topped with our signature whipped cream — delicately flavored for that perfect final flourish — this hot chocolate is more than a drink; it’s a moment of calm, comfort, and quiet decadence
Ingredients in Your Hot Chocolate: pistachios & Matcha
white chocolate chips
vanilla extract
Special Flavor whipped cream
Cost of Your Hot Chocolate: $10
Child size available: No
Available after Challenge ends?: No
Location
30C Laings Road
Lower Hutt
Openning Hours
MONDAY TO SUNDAY - 8:30AM - 3:00PM