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Healthy Hot chocolate - This immune supportive, healthy hot chocolate is easy to make and a really delicious hot drink, that the whole family will love.

Healthy Hot Chocolate

Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Course: Drinks
Servings: 2
This immune supportive, healthy hot chocolate is easy to make and a really delicious hot drink, that the whole family will love.

Ingredients

  • 2 tbsp cacao powder (unsweetened Dutch process or raw)
  • 1 tsp ground cinnamon
  • ¼ tsp ground ginger
  • ¼ tsp ground turmeric
  • ¼ tsp ground cardamom
  • ¼ tsp vanilla -powder, extract or essence
  • 1 tsp rice malt syrup, honey or maple syrup *to taste (or coconut sugar or rapadura)
  • 4-500 ml milk (of choice) (2 cups)

Instructions

  • Mix the cacao and spices together into a mug or cup. 
  • Mix to combined then divide between the two cups. 
  • Add the sweetener to each cup (if required).
  • Heat the milk of your choice (I generally use the frother on my coffee machine).
  • Add a little hot milk to each cup and mix to dissolve the cacao, spices and sweetener. Top with the rest of the milk and enjoy immediately. 

Notes

Vegan

To make it vegan chose a plant based milk and maple syrup or rice malt syrup as your sweetener.

Spiced cacao

Add a pinch of cayenne pepper.

Add protein

Add unflavoured collagen protein powder.