This Hot Cocoa Mix recipe combines cocoa, sweetener, and real chocolate bits for a decadent cup of cocoa! Make your own chocolatey and creamy homemade hot chocolate with three ingredient!
Hot Cocoa Mix Recipe
Burr! Baby, it’s cold outside! The wind is blowing, leaves are covering my courtyard and we’re getting blasts of rain! Yep, it looks like I better start digging through my drawers for warm socks!
The “cold” spell here in California probably feels like spring to some of you, but I am such a whiny wimp when it’s cold. It’s a love-dislike relationship.
I love warming up with sweaters, soup and hot drinks, but hate dislike the wet soppy mess that comes with rain.
Cocoa Mix Without Creamer or Dry Milk
Hot cocoa can instantly turn a dreary cold day into a comfortable winter wonderland! Yes. Yes it can, so I’ve mixed a batch of cocoa mix to have whenever our bellies want a warm cup of creamy hot chocolate.
There are a lot of instant cocoa recipes that adds powdered creamer or dry milk to the cocoa mix, but if you are dairy-free or limit the amount of dairy in your diet, then that combination isn’t going to be optimal. The hubs prefers 1% low-fat milk and I like almond milk, so we can each have of favorite milk with this recipe.
Ingredients In Hot Cocoa Mix
This recipe is adjustable to your dietary preference. Gather these ingredients:
- Unsweetened cocoa powder
- Sweetener of your choice (granulated sugar, coconut sugar, xylitol, erythritol, monk fruit)
- Semi-sweet chocolate pieces or baking chips (use sugar free chips like Lily’s for low carb option)
Hot Cocoa Mix Recipe For Gift Giving
Homemade hot cocoa also makes wonderful holiday gifts for co-workers, teachers or friends. Give individual servings wrapped in food baggies tucked in a mug or tuck a jar full of the cocoa mix in a gift basket!
I’ve included a printable gift tag with the instructions on how to make a delicious cup of cocoa!
Click here for a printable Hot Cocoa Gift Tag Instruction: Hot Cocoa Mix Tags – The Foodie Affair
Enjoy!
Hot Cocoa Mix Recipe with Irish Cream
Treat yourself to an Irish cream hot cocoa!
Add a pinch of salt to your prepared hot cocoa. The salt intensifies the chocolate flavor.Hot Cocoa Mix Recipe
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Sammie
This hot cocoa is just perfect for the cold weather! Must be freezing there in North America now! Hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend Sandra!! 🙂
Jen
I love that I can make hot chocolate at home and what a simple and delicious party idea!
Sandra Shaffer
It would be fun to set up a cocoa bar with toppings and lots of whipped cream, of course!
Sheena @ Hot Eats and Cool Reads
Love this recipe! Great hot cocoa and super cute gift! 🙂
Sandra Shaffer
It’s so simple, Sheena! Fun for the kids to put together too!
Michele @ Flavor Mosaic
This is an excellent gift.
Sandra Shaffer
Thank you, Michele! Everyone could use a hot cup of cocoa, right?!!
Sarah
I love the way you packaged this cocoa in that cute mug. What a cute gift idea!
Sandra Shaffer
Thanks, Sarah! It’s so fun to give gifts that you would want to receive yourself 🙂
Mary Ellen
Love this recipe! I like the way you packaged it for gift giving too.
Sandra Shaffer
Thank you, Mary Ellen! I love making gifts look pretty 🙂 and these pecans didn’t need much help!
Rachael
What a nice looking cup of cocoa, and I love how simple it is! I too am a wimp in the cold, and yet I live in Utah. ahh
Sandra Shaffer
Oh, I feel for you, but I know you know how to bundle up! We lived in Hawaii and then went to Germany. Talk about drastic!
Marion@Life Tastes Good
What a fantastic gift idea!! We love hot chocolate, but living in FL we only have a reason to enjoy it a couple days a year. We try to get our fill whenever the cold rolls in 🙂
Sandra Shaffer
Well, I think it’s time to pay California a visit! Hot cocoa will be ready 🙂
Renee's Kitchen Adventures
What a fantastic gift idea! Forgive me for not feeling sorry for you California whimps! We’ve already had arctic temps and measurable snow this year, and it’s not even officially winter yet! haha I’ll be needing some of this hot cocoa! haha
Sandra Shaffer
haha! I KNOW…I’m terrible when it comes to cold weather! If it’s any consolation, I did live in Germany for two years and I basically froze all those months 🙂
Nagi@RecipeTin Eats
REAL hot chocolate!! I never in a million years would have thought to make it like that – this is brilliant!! Oh my gosh, I want to make this right now! It’s afternoon tea time here!