Easy Dairy Free Homemade Hot Chocolate (Dairy Milk can also be used)
The name pretty much speaks for itself. If your house is like mine, the word “Hot Chocolate”makes people squeal with excitement and reaching for the marshmallows. Hot chocolate, is one of those warm drinks that you can enjoy anytime of the year. Sometimes, having diet restrictions for any reason, makes you feel like these simple favorites can’t be enjoyed anymore. I feel like kids have the hardest time with this. That’s why, I have always tried to recreate their favorites. I work hard to make it taste as good or better than the original. This hot chocolate recipe is one that people usually, can’t tell the difference and in some cases, people have liked it better than with dairy milk. I hope you try this and enjoy it as much as we do! Let me know what you all think!!
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Easy Dairy Free Homemade Hot Chocolate
Equipment
- Stove top
Ingredients
- 1 cup water
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 1/4 cup sugar (I use pure cane sugar)
- 1/4 cup pure cocoa powder
- 4 cups coconut or almond milk (Regular milk works fine)
- 1 tsp Espresso powder (optional, but the taste is amazing) (you can find this in the isle with the cocoa)
- 1/2 Tbsp pure vanilla
- Marshmallows for the top
Instructions
- Turn your stove top to low/med heat. In a medium size sauce pan, pour in water, both sugars, espresso powder, and cocoa. Mix with a whisk and make sure all is mixed up and there are no clumps. Heat this mixture until hot, then add Milk & vanilla. Heat this till hot, but NOT boiling. Now, grab some mugs and enjoy!