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.)
Fro-co! Haha love it! I’m saving this recipe for a cold night. 🙂
How about pistachio pudding? Methinks that you would use spinach to get that neon green color:)
Did you ever make it? that sounds great!
WOAH! I cannot wait to try this! One question though: I prefer carob powder over cocoa powder so do you think this recipe would work with carob? I sure hope so because it looks amazing! Really pretty pics btw!
One treat that needs redoing is my grandma’s peanut butter pie in an oreo cookie crust! I would love if you could healthify this….it’s my favorite desert!
Admittedly, I don’t have much (any?) experience baking with carob powder. But if you try it, please let me know whatcha think. I don’t see why it wouldn’t work!
monkey bread!!!! xo
Wow frozen hot chocolate this looks delicious! Love how youve presented it too, so tempting hehe!
Hmmm what other unhealthy treats..what about cheesecake?!
OMG! I just died and went to fro-co heaven!!!!!!!!! HAVE to make this……dang girl you rock!!!
So pretty! I too became vegan before learning about Serendipity, so I’ve been lusting over the idea of frozen hot choco. I’ve actually had different variants of FROCO at different restaurants throughout my life but I’ve never known how easy it is to make!
I’ve never had frozen hot chocolate, but this looks delicious!
Wow! that looks amazing!
Freeze it first and THEN blend! How ingenious!!! Looks like choco-heaven! 😛