Keto Hot Chocolate
Healthy Keto Hot Chocolate Recipe + Video – made with 5 ingredients in the microwave with almond milk and sweetened with monk fruit. Paleo, dairy free, gluten free, refined sugar free, vegan, clean eating, healthy living, real food.
We’ve put up our Christmas tree. Our house is decorated with lights. We hung up our stockings, including our newest one for baby Ryan this year. It’s really feeling like Christmas.
Which has me craving hot chocolate, coziness, and holiday movies. And not just any hot chocolate. My beyond delicious, healthy keto hot chocolate.
Keto Hot Chocolate Secret Ingredient
This hot chocolate is made with a very essential, secret ingredient that I didn’t find in other keto hot cocoas. Cocoa butter!
The cocoa butter adds a richness and silkiness that takes this hot chocolate over the top. Cocoa butter is the fat that is pressed out of the cocoa bean. It tastes like chocolate, even though it has no sweetness. (If you don’t have cocoa butter see notes of a good substitution.)
How to Make Keto Hot Chocolate
The rest of the ingredients are very simple. Almond milk (I prefer homemade, but store bought works also), cocoa powder, maple syrup, and a pinch of kosher salt.
But use what you have. You can substitute any non dairy milk of your choosing. Canned coconut milk is delicious too!
To keep this simple I heat up the almond milk and cocoa butter in the microwave. The stove top works as well.
To make sure the cocoa powder gets blended fully, I like to combine it in the blender over low speed for just 30 seconds.
The resulting keto hot chocolate is rich, decadent, velvety, and everything you want in a hot chocolate. It’s almost like a sipping chocolate. Top it with some coconut whipped cream and you have the perfect warm treat for cold winter nights around the Christmas tree.
Enjoy it guilt free since it is so healthy!
Watch How To Make Keto Hot Chocolate (44 seconds)
Keto Hot Chocolate
- Prep Time: 2 minutes
- Cook Time: 3 minutes
- Total Time: 5 minutes
- Yield: 1 1x
Ingredients
1–1/2 cups almond milk
1 teaspoon cocoa butter
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 tablespoons monk fruit
pinch of kosher salt
4 drops peppermint extract, optional (love this around Christmas time!)
coconut whipped cream topping, optional
Instructions
Heat the almond milk and cocoa butter in a microwave safe container for 3 minutes.
Add the cocoa powder, monk fruit and pinch of salt. Whisk to combine. (Or combine them in a blender over low speed)
Serve warm, topped with coconut whipped cream.
Notes
If you don’t have cocoa butter, you can substitute coconut oil! Use refined coconut oil if you don’t like the taste of coconut.
If you don’t need to keep it keto, you can use any sweetener of your choice! Maple syrup, coconut sugar, honey, or even regular sugar.
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2 Comments on “Keto Hot Chocolate”
This has become a nightly treat for me after my boys go to bed! So surprised how sweet and rich it still tastes using only monk fruit! I’m using coconut butter instead of cocoa butter just because that’s what I have and it’s still delicious.
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I am so happy you are enjoying my Keto Hot Chocolate Charlie! Isn’t is amazing how sweet it is from the monk fruit only? The coconut butter substitution actually sounds quite delicious!