Not Quite Champurrado

It may have been that time that I saw the quick champurrado mix in the Asian store that I suddenly had a craving for it.  But I don't have a recipe (hmmm, I should have looked at that old Filipino Recipe book that my mom used to have which made its way back with me last year).  And as much as I try to recollect childhood memories that I may have watching someone make it, I failed.  So I just had to improvise.

My improvisation however, has an Italian influence.  Don't ask why.  I just love Italian food.  And I adore Giada (except when she showed how to make chicken Adobo!  Ah, I'll learn Italian cooking from you but I won't listen to you how to make adobo!).  A week or so after my initial craving for it, I checked what I have in my pantry:
Arborio rice (ah, so Italian).
Plenty of chocolate bars (dark, milk, etc)
Vanilla extract (yes, the real kind and I was surprised to find a single vanilla bean!)

And there's always milk in the fridge, although it's the 2% kind.  Recalling how chocolate risotto was made by David Rocco, I thought these ingredients are enough.  But I always check what Giada's take on it and found this.

Another look at my pantry (or that corner where all the booze are): yes, there's an orange liquor in there (Grand Marnier).  I don't have an orange but there's orange juice in the fridge and there's some leftover dark chocolate with orange!

Sometimes a dose of chocolatey homey goodness is enough to take away some of the stresses of life....

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*Bowl of chocolate risotto