Sugar free Hot Chocolate (vegan, dairy free)
Vegan hot chocolate or also known as hot cocoa is a totally delicious plant-based drink. This great warming beverage needs only 5 ingredients and less than 10 minutes of your time. It is prepared super quickly and does not need any refined sugar, instead we sweeten the dairy free hot chocolate with dates.With this healthy hot chocolate you get the feeling of drinking your dessert, so creamy, delicious, chocolatey and pleasantly sweet.Not only children love a cup with almond milk hot chocolate, such a warming winter drink without lactose is always welcome after a cold winter walk.
Servings 3 -4 cups
Equipment
Ingredients
- 3 cups almond milk or other planted-based milk
- 3-4 tablespoon cocoa powder or a little more
- ⅓ cup dried dates chopped and soaked or other sweetener of your choice
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup almond butter or other nut / seed butter
Instructions
- The preparation for the vegan hot chocolate is super easy. Briefly soak the dried and pitted dates in hot water.
- In the meantime, put all the remaining ingredients in a high speed blender and add the soaked dates. Now blend it at the highest level until you run out of pieces and it's totally creamy. This can take up to 1 minute.
- If you want, you can sieve the milk through a nut milk bag to sift out small pieces.
- Now put the milk in a small pot and heat to medium heat. I only heat it until it is hot enough to drink.