The BEST Hot Chocolate
My boys love that I celebrate National food holidays in a “healthified” way and tomorrow is National Hot Chocolate Day! If you want to celebrate with us, you must try this recipe for the BEST Hot Chocolate!
Have you ever made hot chocolate and the cocoa powder clumps up and floats at the top? Not in this recipe!
When I make my hot chocolate, I make a paste with the unsweetened cocoa powder and high quality butter!
I like to use a quality unsweetened cocoa powder that is a cocoa powder verses most cocoa powders that are reduced fat and not as rich and flavorful.
Same with butter, I love Kerrygold because it has a higher fat content than most.
If you want to make this the BEST hot chocolate, I highly suggest using browned butter which creates a caramel-like flavor that is rich and nutty! I brown a whole stick of butter and have extras in the fridge to add to fish, shrimp or steak! But if you don’t want to brown the butter, you still will have a delicious hit chocolate!
To brown butter, check out this video:
One of my recipe testers called this hot cocoa “Heaven in a Cup!”
The BEST Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder OR 1 scoop Equip chocolate protein powder
- 2 tablespoons browned butter or coconut oil for dairy free
- 2 tablespoons Natural Sweetener skip if using Equip protein powder
- 1/8 teaspoon Redmond Real Salt skip if using Equip protein powder
- Few drops chocolate stevia or English Toffee stevia
- Pinch of cinnamon optional
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk or heavy cream or full fat coconut milk if you are feeling decadent!
- OPTIONAL GARNISH: Whipped cream or my coconut cream for dairy free sweetened with a few drops monk fruit extract
Instructions
- Place the butter into a sauce pot and heat over high heat while whisking often. Stay close, the butter will froth up and turn brown. Immediately remove from heat.
- Add the cocoa powder (or Equip chocolate protein powder), natural sweeteners, cinnamon and salt into a small pot. Heat over low heat and stir well to make a paste .
- Slowly whisk in unsweetened almond milk. Heat over medium heat just until heated through. Do not boil. Taste and adjust sweetness to your liking. Pour into 2 glasses and garnish with whipped cream if desired.
Nutrition
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Very nice!
Wanna try it.
Also, would like to ask where did you buy those beautiful coffee cups?
Net carb count please?
We only count total carbs. I added it above.
Un je ne sais quoi?!! You speak french Maria!☀️
This is so good!
I made it today! I went with dairy free, full fat coconut milk, it was crazy good. My husband who is not a hot chocolate fan wanted more, but I said no, it serves two. I appreciate your portioning very much, that’s the hardest thing to conform to.
Thank you!