Healthy hot Chocolate.
Chocolate is the answer to every problem.
No seriously, it is.
—-Boyfriend broke up with you? Chocolate!
—-No time to make dinner? Chocolate!
—-Spilled red wine all over your tablecloth? Baking soda!
Baking soda??? Okay, maybe chocolate is the answer to almost every problem. (Please don’t try putting chocolate on your red wine stains. Not a good idea!)
Homemade hot chocolate above is topped with coconut whipped cream and Healthy Chocolate Raspberry Sauce.
But when it’s been raining all day, and you and your roommate are stuck inside (as we were yesterday), chocolate is definitely the answer.
Healthy Hot Chocolate
(Serves 1)
Adapted from:Â Frozen Hot Chocolate
- 2/3 cup milk of choice
- 1/3 cup full-fat canned coconut milk or Cashew Cream (for notes on lower-cal options, see nutritional info link below)
- 2Â tbsp cocoa or cacao powder
- 1/16 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- sweetener, such as 1 stevia packet or 1 tablespoon sugar or agave
Combine all ingredients and stir. Either cook on the stovetop, or: microwave 30 seconds, stir, microwave 30 more seconds, stir, microwave 30 more seconds or until hot and completely mixed.
View Healthy Hot Chocolate Calories and Nutrition Facts
Link of the Day:Â Hot Chocolate Cookies
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Hi Katie,
My little girl is in love with your website and the name you chose for it. She is also a chocoholic.
I am currently pinning everything on your site…lol. I don’t know what recipe I want to try first, but I am leaning toward the cookie dough dip! I love that you are giving away a food processor b/c mine just conked out! Awesome site. Thank you.
Made this a few minutes ago with 2/3 cup light coconut milk and 1/3 cup 1% milk (I’m not vegan). I haven’t tasted it yet as it’s hot and I’m scared of getting burned (as I usually do in attempt to not take an hour to drink hot chocolate). Since I’m alone with no one to have to wait for me to finish I’m waiting. So hard because it smells so good and looks so creamy! I don’t know how much longer I can wait.. Lol!
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Made this a few minutes ago with 2/3 cup light coconut milk and 1/3 cup 1% milk (I’m not vegan). I haven’t tasted it yet as it’s hot and I’m scared of getting burned (as I usually do in attempt to not take an hour to drink hot chocolate). Since I’m alone with no one to have to wait for me to finish I’m waiting. So hard because it smells so good and looks so creamy! I don’t know how much longer I can wait.. Lol!
I love So You Think You Can Dance, The Voice, and The Big Bang Theory. I could just watch those and be happy!
I made this and found that putting it in a blender first and then heating it on the stove not only completely dissolves the cocoa powder, but it also gives some foam like a Starbucks drink 🙂
SO yummy and rich! Made with all almond milk and added 1 tsp instant coffee for a mocha flavor!! 🙂 Used 1 TBS agave as sweetener…perfect!
I just tried this since i was in the mood for chocolate. Honestly I didn’t like it. It was too thick for my liking and a bit bitter (maybr because i didnt have coconut milk) added extra sugar and extra milk. Helped with both issues but still not there for me. Going to do some tweaking when I try it again 🙂
Katie,
I keep Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa around for everything. Do you think I would be better off using a regular cocoa (non-dark)? Or does it not really matter?
Thanks!
As an add on to my last post, I searched for the dagoba unsweetened drinking chocolate at whole foods and was told that they will no longer be carrying dagoba products because the company refused to supply details about the origin if their products, making them suspect. Have you heard about this? Is there a product on par with dagoba that you could recommend?
I am currently happily drinking your recipe! It’s DELICIOUS! I did 2/3 homemade almond milk, 1/3 reg. coconut milk, 1 Tbl reg. cocoa & 1 Tbl special dark cocoa (hersheys), stevia and vanilla.
Then I put maybe a 1/4 cup canned coconut milk as whipped cream on top whipped with some cinnamon and stevia.
DELICIOUS! 😀 Thanks Katie so much for the recipe!
I just made this hot chocolate and it is amazing!!! Seriously satisfied my craving for chocolate 🙂
I’m sitting here sipping on a cup of this as I type. Oh my gosh! So good! I reduced the cocoa by about a 1/2 tablespoon (though only because the cocoa we get here (Norway) is very dark) and used lite coconut milk (again, only because no stores in this country seem to have any idea that full fat coconut milk exists). Mixed with sweetened soy milk, this is really amazingly creamy and has just the faintest hint of coconut, which I absolutely love. So much better than the instant stuff! Thank you! And drat, the cup is empty already.. Think I’ll have to go make some more!
When I make this, I use vanilla Silk soy milk for the liquid. I don’t add the vanilla extract, either because, the soy milk is flavored vanilla. 🙂 Sometimes, I’ll use 2/3 C milk and 1/3 C water. (I don’t notice the difference, but I won’t vouch for whether someone else will or not.)
For my sweetener, I use either one Tablespoon of 100% Pure Organic Maple Syrup or 2 teaspoons Stevia in the Raw. I like this recipe a lot! 😀 It is the only Hot Chocolate Recipe I use now. My version of it is 172 calories, the only real con is that (if using maple syrup) the sugar is 19.2grams!
Really good but I think less cocoa powder would be good
We don’t have a cable anymore but have become addicted to Breaking Bad and Mad Men on Netflix i thought i’d miss reality tv, but i actually don’t at all
I loved this hot chocolate! I’ve been trying to find a good hot chocolate that doesn’t use cow’s milk and this is it! Thanks Katie!