Grab a warm cup of hot chocolate and enjoy these wonderfully wintry images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest. A quaint resort sits at the base of these majestic snow-capped mountains.

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If you are making it for kids or anyone who enjoys a gentler, more milky hot chocolate, add extra milk, to taste, for the final 30 minutes of cooking. Put the cocoa powder in a medium bowl.