Hot Chocolate Recipes

Hot chocolate is easy to make and fun to experiment with. We start with a basic hot chocolate recipe, then throw in a few others, ending with the latest rage, "frozen" hot chocolate.

Hot Chocolate Recipe Tips

Invent your own hot chocolate recipe! Yummy additions are whip cream, cinnamon, vanilla, almond, orange, or peppermint extracts, shaved chocolate, malted milk powder, candy canes, a peppermint tea bag, marshmallows, or ground hazelnuts. Be creative! Have fun!

I usually drink soy milk, but I don't like the taste in hot chocolate. Instead, I use about 2/3 boiling water and 1/3 cold soymilk just for thickness.

If you are using powdered milk, use instant. Regular dry milk tends to get very lumpy.

For super rich cocoa, try using part half and half.

For iced (not frozen) hot chocolate, make a large batch. Allow the mixture to cool, then put half into ice cube trays and freeze, and put the rest in the fridge. When the cubes are ready, add them to the refrigerated chocolate.