My kids love hot chocolate and are heart broken when I don’t buy a box of the conventional instant store bought type, you know the one with the mini shriveled up marshmallow( at least I think they are marshmallows?)2 cups organic evaporated cane juice sugar (health aisle or Whole Foods Market)
1 vanilla bean, cut into small pieces ( may be able to use organic liquid vanilla)
1 cup organic powdered milk or almond milk (can try rice, but almond is thicker..or organic cow’s milk )
1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Method
Put sugar and vanilla bean into a food processor and pulse until vanilla bean is very finely chopped and well incorporated. Strain vanilla sugar through a fine sieve, discarding any large pieces of vanilla bean that remain ( also instead of vanilla bean, can put a few droplets of liquid vanilla into sugar) and mix; transfer 1/2 cup of the vanilla sugar to a large bowl. (Save remaining vanilla sugar for another use.) Add milk, cocoa to bowl with sugar, stir well and then transfer to an airtight container.
To make hot chocolate, put 1/4 cup of the mix and 1 cup boiling water into a mug and stir well.
For a burst of flavor, try steeping a bag of mint or almond tea in the mug along with the hot chocolate.
Nutrition : Per serving (about 1oz/31g-wt.): 140 calories (40 from fat), 4.5g total fat, 2.5g saturated fat, 15mg cholesterol, 95mg sodium, 19g total carbohydrate (1g dietary fiber, 18g sugar), 5g protein
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great recipe – I just make a concentrated whole food chocolate syrup and we add it to milk when they want ti – makes it hot chocolate or chocolate milk – almost instantly. if they’ve milked!
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Liberty,
Thanks! I would love your whole food chocolate syrup recipe for I refuse to use the nasty stuff! I am excited to look around your website too. Thanks for sharing too!
~Lisa
Homemade choclate syrup
1/2 c cocoa
2/3 c rapadura/ palm sugar
1c water
1/2 t sea salt
1t vanilla
3 T butter I use coconut oil!
Whisk all together over medium heat.
Liberty,
Thank you (and my readers thank you) for your wisdom on how to make homemade chocolate syrup! The conventional stuff is just horrible and so many children drink/eat it. This is just awesome!
ooo! This recipe sounds so yummy. I am excited to try it, I love hot coco on a cold day
Thank you for sharing!
How much do I love that you made your own hot chocolate?? I think there are some things people buy from the grocery store (ie hot chocolate) and they don’t even realize they can make it from scratch relatively easily…. that’s probably true about most things. I love this!
Kristy Lynn, It is so easy and healthy. I leave the batch I make in a pretty glass jar with a seal. My teenage son helps himself and I feel good he isn’t drinking the conventional stuff. And, if you see in a comment here, there is a recipe to make homemade chocolate syrup. I want to try this for mochas!