Salted caramel hot chocolate from Muffin Break Queensgate is a crowd favourite. It is topped with whipped cream and a sprinkling of caramel popcorn. Served with a finger of salted chocolate caramel for dipping, stirring or just eating.
Ingredients: Salted caramel syrup, hot chocolate, whipped cream, caramel popcorn.
Trading Hours: Monday – Saturday 9am-6pm, Thursday til 9pm, Sunday 9am-5:30pm
Muffin Break
Queensgate Shopping Centre, cnr Queens Drive & Bunny Street
This Sticky Toffee Pudding hot chocolate will have you stuck on it during this year’s Challenge. Featuring another proper English dessert turned hot chocolate; it comes with a mini toffee pudding and chocolate wafer. A shimmer shot of English Toffee Vodka finishes the adult version for extra warmth and glow on a winter’s day or evening.
Ingredients: Cocoa, caramel sauce, SHOTT Butterscotch date puree, brown sugar, flour, B.P. eggs, milk treacle, R18 version includes toffee vodka
Trading Hours: Wednesday – Friday 11am – 9pm, Saturday – Sunday 10am – 9pm
The Crooked Elm
25 Laings Road
Bringing in the warm and smooth flavours of taro and coconut, topped delicately with whipped cream, caramel sauce and candied popcorn. This unique hot chocolate to heat up your winter.
Ingredients: Taro Extract, dark chocolate, whipped cream, coconut flakes, milk, caramel popcorn, salted caramel sauce
Trading Hours: Monday – Saturday 10am – 8pm, Sunday 2pm – 8pm
Beforetime Express
258 High Street
What a family favourite! Chocolate teddy bears lie about in the rainbow marshmallows floating like transcendent clouds in candy floss. A barista made white hot chocolate is combined with Sierra flamed chocolate syrup and topped with childhood memories of candies.
Ingredients: Candy floss, white chocolate, Sierra chocolate syrup, Teddy Bear biscuits, homemade coconut ice, rainbow marshmallows, sprinkles 100s & 1000s
Trading Hours: Monday – Saturday 9am – 6pm, Thursday til 9pm, Sunday 9am – 5:30pm
Sierra Café Queensgate
Queensgate Shopping Centre, cnr Queens Drive & Bunny Street
A tasting platter of three mouth-watering hot chocolate flavours, each paired with unique and hand-crafted baklavas filled with matching flavours and topped with chocolate drizzle. The platter consists of three hot chocolates – mango and white chocolate, Baileys Red Velvet and Belgian Chocolate (non-alcoholic option available), and matcha and white chocolate.
Ingredients: Full cream milk, Belgian chocolate, white chocolate, whipped cream, Baileys Red Velvet Limited Edition (Berry option available as non-alcoholic), Mango Pulp, Matcha Powder, Dried raspberries for garnish.
Trading Hours: Monday – Saturday 9am-6pm, Thursday til 9pm, Sunday 9am-5:30pm
Hudsons
Queensgate Shopping Centre, cnr Queens Drive & Bunny Street
Have your drink and eat it too! A creamy oat hot chocolate served in a Twiice plant based cup (you can eat it, if you want). It’s topped with a dairy free whip, Oreos, dandy marshmallow and a biscoff drizzle.
Ingredients: Twiice plant based cup, Elephant drinking chocolate, All Good oat milk, Schlagfix whip, Oreos, dandy marshmallow, Lotus biscoff spread
Trading Hours: Monday – Saturday 8:30am-3pm
Fellow Cafe
2 Queens Drive (entrance off Woburn Road)
Get Buzzed! A spiced gingerbread hot chocolate from Buzz offers the comforts of home, warming spices of cloves, nutmeg, ginger and chocolate!
A gingerbread man accompanies a warmly spiced hot chocolate along with a tasty gingerbread Whoopie pie stuffed with fluffy filling.
A hot chocolate for everyone’s list!
Ingredients: Gingerbread syrup, Chocolate hot chocolate, Whoopie pie with marshmallow gingerbread.
Trading Hours: Monday-Wednesday: 8:30am-3pm, Thursday-Saturday: 8:30am-7:30pm, Sunday: 9am-2:30pm
Buzz
101 High Street
Made with almonds and a touch of salted caramel. Topped with a delicious homemade brownie, whipped cream, marshmallows and is served with scorched almond chocolate.
Ingredients: hot chocolate powder, SHOTT Beverages Salted Caramel Syrup, Almonds, Gluten Free Almond brownie – Homemade, marshmallows,and Nestle Scorched Almonds.
Trading hours: Monday to Wednesday and Friday to Saturday 9am – 6pm, Thursday 9am – 9pm, Sunday 10am – 5.30pm
Sierra Café Queensgate
Queensgate Shopping Centre
Bunny Street, Lower Hutt 5010
Have you heard of a dessert called Baked Alaska? Brownie bottom, ice cream middle and meringue top. Well our Kiwi version replaces the ice cream with a large Jaffa candy. A flamed orange hot chocolate with Gluten-free chocolate brownie and chocolate dipped orange slice. This desert of a hot chocolate is house made from the brownie, dipped orange slice to the meringue topping.
Ingredients: Gusto Hot Choc powder, SHOTT Beverages Flamed Orange Syrup, Milk, Whittakers Chocolate, Jaffa thins, Jaffas, gluten-free flour, oranges, and edible flowers. Alcohol version includes Grand Marnier.
Trading hours: Monday to Thursday 7am – 3pm, Friday 7am – 7pm, Saturday 8am – 3pm
Atrium
215 High Street, Lower Hutt 5010
We’re bringing back the Pixie Caramel! Warm up with a butterscotch hot chocolate topped with butterscotch whipped cream. End it all with a stick of gooey Pixie Caramel that’s been warming in the hot chocolate!
Enjoy with our Butterscotch Pixie Caramel Donut or Hot Chocolate Donut (sold separately).
Ingredients: SHOTT Beverages Butterscotch Syrup, Cadbury Hot Chocolate Powder, cocoa powder, Pixie Caramel bar, whipped cream (cream stabiliser), milk, and caramel sauce.
Trading hours: Monday to Saturday 6.30am – 5.30pm
Fix Federation
Shop 5, 79 High Street, Lower Hutt 5010
