Ultimate Vegan Hot Chocolate
Course: Drinks Servings: 1
Prep time: 1 min Cook time: 5 min
Difficulty level: Easy
Vegan
Gluten Free
Naturally Sweetened
*** FEATURING OUR LOVE VEGAN CACAO BASED BARS ***
Author: Jennifer Sargison
You cant beat a hot chocolate, loaded with cream a flake and lots of lovely toppings. These hot chocolates are often loaded with sugars and full of empty calories. My ultimate hot chocolate is a healthier version subbing double cream for a small squirt of vegan cream, swapping the chocolate for a healthy and filling love vegan bar and using plant based milk instead of a higher calorie full fat cows milk.
Because we have included a love vegan bar to substitute a chocolate flake you’ll be getting a healthy snack as well as a hot drink, the bar is healthy, low in calories and jam packed with fruit, nuts and seeds. When it is dipped into a hot chocolate it goes super gooey and even more indulgent.
Ingredients
1 Love vegan bar (a cacao based bar so choose from any of the following orange, cherry, rich cacao or coffee and amaretto)
1 teaspoon of cacao powder
2 teaspoons of a sugar or sweetener of you choice (add more/less to taste)
1 cup of plant based milk (cashew nut works well as it’s naturally creamy, soya is also good as it froths up really well and oat is really sustainable and also is good at frothing up)
Method
Mix the cacao and sugar in the bottom of a mug with a little milk until a paste is formed.
Heat the milk using either a frothing device (hand held, electric or you may have one on a coffee machine) or pop the milk in the microwave or in a small pan on the hob to heat.
Whilst you’re keeping an eye on the milk you can get on with the love vegan ‘flake’
Slice the vegan bar in half and squish the two half’s together to make a long flake shape (it will resemble a straw shape) cut off a little to use to crumble on top of the cream later.
Once the milk has heated up add it to the mug containing the paste and mix really well so the milk becomes chocolatey.
Add a squirt of vegan cream to the top of the hot chocolate drink.
Carefully place the vegan bar in the mug at an angle so it stays in place
Crumble the remaining love vegan bar on top of the cream for decoration.
All you need to do now is to find a nice chair or sofa and put your feet up.
Get your Love Vegan fix here
If you do make this then I hope you love it
Any thoughts or comments?
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Big love, Jen x