Any dairy free hot chocolate recipes?

[rafiki]

Thanks.

[Harriet Vane]

My ds does hot water with cocoa powder and sugar (ratio is for every one spoon of cocoa there should be two spoons of sugar). He adds rice milk or soy milk, though I think coconut milk is best for this.

[The Girls' Mom]

We've been making it with rice or coconut milk, cocoa and sugar. If you want it creamier, try adding a small amount of corn starch or tapioca starch and whisking it in before it's hot, then bring it almost to a boil. It will give it that creamy texture that you only seem to get with real milk.

[Soror]

I use a bit of water and coco powder(and a very small pinch of sea salt), heated until dissolved. Then I add coco milk-full fat- heat it until just below boiling, stir in the sweetener of your choice and a bit of vanilla. If you do a granulated sweetener you of course need to make sure it dissolves well.

[Mom2J112903]

Use your regular recipe and replace the cow's milk with vanilla almond milk-YUMMY!!!!!!

[Beatusduo]

For a dry mix we use the following:

 

3 cups non-dairy creamer

1 cup sugar

3/4 cup cocoa

mini marshmallows (optional)

[In the Rain]

Use your regular recipe and replace the cow's milk with vanilla almond milk-YUMMY!!!!!!

 

This is exactly what we do.

[Cedarmom]

I just use rice milk/cocoa powder/ sugar. The other day I added margarine so it would be a little creamier. Coconut milk would probably give it the creaminess too. And I like thesuggestion of nondairy creamer. Then you could get flavored-like peppermint. Yummy

[rafiki]

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[kalanamak]

Use your regular recipe and replace the cow's milk with vanilla almond milk-YUMMY!!!!!!

 

:iagree:

[Harriet Vane]

I've never used or bought creamer. Is there a certain dairy free creamer? Is this with the coffee or milk products?

 

I would actually recommend against this. The non-dairy creamers are often unbelievably unhealthy.

 

You can find coconut milk with the Asian stuff at the grocery store. (Get the coconut MILK, not coconut cream.) Either that or the almond milk should be really yummy.

[Dana]

I would actually recommend against this. The non-dairy creamers are often unbelievably unhealthy.

 

Be careful too. Some of the nondairy creamers do contain milk products, so they're dangerous if you have an allergy.

[Corraleno]

Nondairy creamers don't contain lactose, but they often contain milk protein (casein), which is the part many people are allergic to. They also often contain corn syrup, hydrogenated fats, mono & diglycerides, and other "yummy" stuff.

 

Silk makes a dark chocolate almond milk that you can just heat up and drink. It uses cane sugar and natural vegetable thickeners.

 

If you buy coconut milk to drink (as opposed to using in a curry or something), make sure to read the ingredients and skip the cans with added guar gum. Guar gum is a common thickener, and in some products you don't even taste it, but every can of coconut milk I've had with guar gum in it tastes nasty when I use it for chai or hot chocolate. Trader Joe's and Whole Foods both sell plain coconut milk with no additives.

 

Jackie

[gracesteacher]

W use safe chocolate chips whisked in to heated rice/oat/coconut milk rich and creamy