Hot Cocoa Recipes

Create your own cup of hot cocoa and you'll be sure to have no preservatives and a fresh delicious recipe.

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Homemade Cocoa Recipes

Hot Chocolate Mix

• 4 squares (1 ounce each) semisweet baking chocolate, grated
• 1/2 Cup baking cocoa
• 1/2 Cup confectioners' or powdered sugar
• Pinch of salt

Grate chocolate into bowl and add other ingredients. Stir together and store in plastic container.

To make a cup of hot cocoa add 2 Tablespoons of cocoa mix to ¾ Cup hot milk or water.

Hot Cocoa Mix with Mini Marshmallows

• 1 Cup powdered sugar
• 1/2 Cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1/2 Cup powdered non-dairy coffee creamer
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 3/4 Cups nonfat milk powder
• 1 cup miniature marshmallows

Mix all ingredients together in a large bowl. Stir together and store in a plastic container. To make a cup of hot cocoa stir 3-4 Tablespoons of the mix into one cup hot water or milk. This makes about 4-5 cups of mix.

Fresh Cocoa

• 1/2 Cup sugar
• 1/4 Cup cocoa
• Dash salt
• 1/3 Cup hot water
• 4 Cups (1 qt.) milk
• 3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

In a saucepan add sugar cocoa and salt together. Stir in hot water and bring to a boil. Add milk and vanilla. Cook several minutes until cocoa is warm.

White Hot Chocolate

• 1 Cup milk
• 2 Tablespoons white chocolate instant pudding mix
• Crushed peppermint candy, optional

Warm milk in saucepan or in microwave safe dish. When hot whisk pudding mix into milk. Top with peppermint candy if desired.


Printable Chocolate Trivia Worksheet

Hot Cocoa from the Inside Out

by Rikki (United States)

• 1 Cup of milk
• 4 teaspoons of cocoa mix per person
• Cinnamon (optional)

Add 1 cup of milk and the cocoa mix in tea pot. Place on stove (high temperature). When it looks complete, add 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, if you desire and mix. Serve soon after.

Homemade Hot Cocoa

by Brandy (Florida)
yum! yum! homemade hot cocoa!!!

• 1/2 Cup of Nesquick
• 2 tbs. of powdered sugar
• 3/4 Cup coffee creamer
• 2 Cup powdered milk
• 1 quart of hot water

Stir and serve.
(provides about 10 servings of hot cocoa)


Create this fun snowman out of marshmallows, melted chocolate for buttons and face, candy corn nose and pretzels.
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