Spiced Hot Chocolate With Black Pepper Marshmallow Fluff

Ingredients

• 3 cup milk
• 1 cup heavy cream
• ¼ cup sugar
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2 whole star anise
• 1 teaspoon dried ancho chiles
• 1 cup chopped chocolate
• 2 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
• ¼ cup water
• 1 tablespoon glucose or corn syrup
• 2 egg whites
• 1 sheet gelatin (bloomed in ice water)
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 teaspoon sea salt