As temperatures drop and the weather turns gloomy, few treats create the same coziness as homemade hot chocolate. While the usual method can yield a satisfying hot beverage from start to finish, I’m interested in something a little more along the lines of extraordinary.

While it’s not difficult to make a cup of hot chocolate from scratch, it can often feel bland. It can be a certain blandness that extra cocoa powder or cream can’t fix, or worse: chocolate chunks. If you’ve ever made hot chocolate with a chocolate bar, chances are you’ve ended up with little chocolate slugs in your cup of hot milk. While it’s not necessarily “gross,” it’s not quite what you imagined.

A good cup of hot chocolate is smooth, chocolatey, and sweet. A chocolate bar, even melted, will not emulsify well with milk or water. Nutella, on the other hand, dissolves easily in hot liquid. This simple method requires only two ingredients and is ready in maybe three minutes. To make it easier, this popular chocolate-hazelnut spread is already fully sweetened and contains emulsifiers, so you don’t have to do much work to make a perfectly drinkable cup. Put on a pair of those furry, grippy socks you got for Christmas and make this delicious Hazelnut Hot Chocolate with Nutella.

Add one tablespoon of Nutella to a mug. Pour four ounces (half a cup) of hot liquid into it. I used water from my electric kettle. Let the water sit in the mug for about a minute to soften the Nutella. Whisk or stir with a small fork for about 30 seconds to stir the mixture and dissolve the Nutella. Once the mixture is smooth and chocolatey, add another four ounces of liquid and stir. I like to add boiling water first to fully dissolve the other ingredients, then top it off with four ounces of milk to bring it to a drinkable temperature. Garnish your fresh hot chocolate with a few marshmallows and get cozy.