Rich, chocolatey, frosty, dreamy, homemade frozen hot chocolate…
It seems every time I mention my love for New York City, someone will ask, “Have you been to Serendipity? Have you had their frozen hot chocolate? It’s life-changing!”
What’s a healthy-eating vegan, who’s never been to Serendipity, to do?
Make my own frozen hot chocolate, of course!
For a healthy topping, be sure to try this with my Healthy Reddi-Wip Cream on top!
Frozen Hot Chocolate
(Makes 1 really big serving)
- 1 cup milk of choice – use at least 1/3 cup as lite or full-fat canned coconut milk if you want a truly-rich treat
- 2 tbsp cocoa powder
- scant 1/16th tsp salt – important
- 2 tbsp pure maple syrup, sugar, etc. OR pinch pure stevia
- Optional for an even richer flavor, add a little melted chocolate (Serendipity’s recipe calls for this)
Combine ingredients and whisk together on the stove. Or microwave 30 seconds, stir, then microwave another 30 seconds. Let cool, then pour into an ice-cube tray. If you don’t have one, pour into three or four small containers. (Or pour it all into one container, but be sure to thaw before doing the next step so your blender can handle the one big block of frozen-ness.) Freeze. Once frozen, pop the mixture into a blender and blend! I used my Vitamix. Do not add ice, which would dilute the flavor. Ideas for Variations: Add almond or mint extract, blend in some banana, spike with rum, or even add peanut butter!
Frozen Hot Chocolate Nutrition Facts:
(For the entire thing)
- Calories: 80
- fat grams: 4.5
- Protein grams: 3
- Sugar grams: 0 (if using stevia)
I first made this using only almond milk. I liked it… but my taste-tester friends—some of whom have tasted the real thing from Serendipity—said it was more like frozen ice milk than hot chocolate. I agreed; the recipe was missing that rich, hot-chocolate flavor. Nothin’ a little fat couldn’t fix! So if you can spare the calories in your diet, try using at least 1/3 cup of full-fat coconut milk. It will still be much healthier than the Serendipity version (220 calories to their 850. I’m not sure what their serving size is… but my recipe makes a pretty big serving! And it has no cholesterol and can be sugar-free.)
I’d smooch you forever if you did a french silk pie ala Baker’s Square/Perkin’s. 😉 If that’s more a punishment than a prize, I’ll let my cute rats smooch you instead. They also do a lovely manicure!
I keep trying vegan french silk recipes I can’t seem to get the fluffy mousse-y but dense and crazy rich texture down! Tofu just doesn’t work quite right. It’s GOOD but not… yanno… EPIC. 😉
Haha I dunno if I’d want rat kisses either… but then again, I don’t even like when Henry kisses me! He tries all the time. I swear, that dog’s tongue is never in his mouth!
Awwwww. Rat kisses are nice!
They aren’t drooly like dogs…
VIDEO PROOF:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AMuB-xLETU
(Yes, those are my boys. Yes, I sound like a dork.)
Ooooooooooooh how about healthified truffles!
Pecan Pie!!! 😀
I’ve heard about that Serendipity frozen hot cocoa too! Great idea veganizing it.
looks awesome!
Blessings, Debra
Raw Vegan Diet
I’m DEFINITELY going to try this very soon!!
So I JUST discovered your blog not 24 hours ago and I’ve been completely obsessed. It so fun and inspiring! I even went as far as to make the Sex Bomb babies this morning. And can I please be honest and say I didn’t think they’d necessarily be as good as buckeyes? Because I didn’t. BUT I WAS SO WRONG!!
CCK, these babies are AMAZING!! I’ll be trying out the others VERY soon. KEEP ON BLOGGING YOUR LITTLE HEART OUT! You’re amazing!
Aww times a million! Thank you for the super-sweet comment. And lol how could ANYthing covered in chocolate not taste good? 😉
These pictures are just gorgeous! I’m excited about this recipe and I’ve never heard of Serendipity. Looks amazing.
Looks great, Katie! You know the pictures are beautiful and perfect when you can just TASTE the deliciousness simply by looking at them. Can’t wait to try it!
YUMMY! And so simple!
I love the idea of adding rum — great idea Katie!
Other naughty treats — do you have a cherry pie recipe of some sort?
I don’t :(. I do have a vegan fruit crumble recipe that could use cherries. I could definitely try to make it healthier (although it’s not super-unhealthy as is): https://lett-trim.today/2008/05/10/peachy-keen-jellybean/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
And really, any crisp/crumble recipe can be veganized with margarine. Pie wouldn’t work as well, because you really need butter & shortening for a good crust.
Actually just make the crust raw. It’s yummy
Actually you don’t need margarine; and I wouldn’t eat if you paid me! Coconut oil works well, as does earth balance spread.
Oh my dang, this is gonna be awesome for summer!
Hmm…what needs a makeover? My vote goes to a churro. I don’t know how that could really be made over though…but in an ideal world there’s an equally tasty but healthy version of a fried stick of sugar-coated dough…
LOL!
Oh my gosh. I need this.
Whitney
its just great that you mention new york and serendipity today, as i’ll go aaaaall the way from europe to new york TOMORROW morning!!! thanks, i’ll go there for sure!! (as i can’t have one of your frozen hot chocolates ;-))
OOh lucky! Take me in your suitcase? 😉
looks really amazing! never even heard of serendipity but it sounds like heaven on earth 😉
Now that looks amazing! Must try that…and fro-co is such an awesome name! We have a new frozen yogurt joint here (and they have a few nondairy flavors) called Yolo (the “lo” stands for “local” since they use as many locally-sourced ingredients as possible).
Woah! Sooooo jealous!! One of the only non-vegan foods I miss is soft-serve ice cream. Spiral Diner used to have it, but they said their machine broke too many times, and they stopped making it :(. I need me some soft-serve in my life!
In NYC, Lula’s apparently has cake batter soft-serve!
That sounds great. Love hot chocolate and frozen hot chocolate sounds even better! 😀