Every once in a blue moon a few drops of water fall from the sky in Southern California. I’m told this is called rain. It’s been a while. I have hot chocolate about as often as it rains here… not very often. I used to get those instant packets of hot chocolate from the store. You know, with the little marshmallows and stuff? Have you ever turned one of those suckers over and read the ingredients? Wowza! The good news is you can make a much healthier version at home with very few ingredients.
Here is a delicious recipe for dairy free, refined sugar free paleo hot chocolate.
Rainy Day Paleo Hot Chocolate (Dairy Free)
What you will need:
- 2 cans (13.5 oz) of full fat coconut milk (where to buy full fat coconut milk)
- 3/4 cup dairy free chocolate chips (where to buy dairy free chocolate chips)
- 3/4 cup filtered water
- 1 Tbsp vanilla (where to buy vanilla)
- 1 Tbsp maple syrup (where to buy maple syrup)
Directions:
- Combine coconut milk and chocolate chips in a pot and heat on medium high while constantly stirring.
- Bring to a boil and add the remainder of the ingredients.
- Reduce the heat to medium.
- Continue stirring until smooth.
- Serve and enjoy!
What are your favorite rainy day traditions? Any favorite paleo hot chocolate recipes?
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I initially wanted to replace the chocolate chips with cocoa powder, then realized it wouldn’t be sweet enough. So I added sweeteners and tasted as I went. I ended up with 1/2 cup + 3 tbsp of maple syrup, 1 average size spoon of honey (heaping), 2-3 tbsp of vanilla. Use the coconut milk and chocolate chips (replaced with cocoa powder) as directed. It’s an alright hot cocoa. I may experiment with more recipes to try to get the right flavor, such as reducing the amount of cocoa powder since it’s bitter unlike chocolate chips.
I guess I’m a little confused that you say coconut milk in the recipe, and the link takes me to coconut butter. Which is it?
It should be coconut milk, Sarah! Thanks for letting me know. I’ll get that updated soon.
Delicious!!! Thank you! Cheers
Isn’t brown sugar “refined sugar” and also not paleo? Looking at the dairy-free chocolate chips you linked and they seem really iffy to me.
Lisa,
I’m not a paleo perfectionist so I am comfortable including these in my diet and my kids’ diet from time to time. They are the cleanest chocolate chips I’ve found on the market since they contain no soy lecithin which is very common in chocolate.
You can definitely skip this recipe if it’s not for you 🙂
Have a great day
Sylvie
Can you prepare it in advance?
sure!
How many servings does this make?
3-4 servings – you can water it down a bit if you want to stretch it out