A Delicious Homemade Creamy Hot Chocolate Recipe

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Top Utah lifestyle blog, Among the Young, features the Best Creamy hot chocolate recipe – it’s so easy you’ll love it! Click here for the recipe

I’m embarrassed that it’s taken me so long to share my mom’s creamy hot chocolate recipe. SO ASHAMED! Why have I been holding out on you guys?!

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Honestly, I just forget about Hot chocolate. I’m a baked goods girl at heart and there are so many other Christmas desserts I love this time of year (like my Egg Nog cookie bars, Peppermint pie, or Almond Roca bars). So I’m not lying when I say that I LEGIT FORGET about hot cocoa.

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Don’t get me wrong, this creamy hot chocolate recipe DEFINITELY has a place in my heart.

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I grew up drinking this! My mom would make a big batch and we’d have lots of leftovers – for weeks!

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I have VIVID memories of drinking hot cocoa out of a Mickey Mouse Santa mug (of course I can’t find that exact mug ANYWHERE) and equal marshmallow to cocoa ratio. Being a kid is sure great!

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Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe

This recipe technically just calls for regular “cocoa” and I’ve always used regular cocoa, but I’m dying to try it with my Special Dark cocoa .

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Or I could skip the vanilla extract and add hazelnut or mint or coconut.

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Truly, the options are endless and hot chocolate is king.

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I’d also like to mention that normally I’m NOT a marshmallow person, but something about marshmallows in hot chocolate are so nostalgic – so I go for it. Why not?

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Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe

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Creamy Hot Chocolate

Ingredients

  • 1/3 cup cocoa regular or dark
  • 1 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1 dash salt
  • 1/2 cup hot water
  • 1 cup heavy whipping cream
  • 1 quart milk (the higher fat content, the better!)
  • 3/4 tsp vanilla

Instructions

  • Bring cocoa, sugar, salt, and water to a boil. 
  • Boil for 2 minuites
  • Add the milk and whipping cream - heat until boiling
  • Stir in vanilla

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Need something to pair with this creamy hot chocolate recipe? I’d highly recommend Ashlee’s homemade marshmallows or Jesseca’s homemade almond biscotti. I need to try both, but I trust both of these bakers with my gut… so there’s that.

What is your favorite flavor to include in a hot chocolate recipe? Mint? Dark? Milk? Or are you a “I’ll take anything” kind of person?  Let me know in a comment below!

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