Receta Clean Eating Hot Chocolate Mix
This is a simple one guys. A clean, quick, easy and affordable mix you can give as a gift for the holidays!
Here’s the thing. Hot coco mix is typically a mixture of 3 ingredients (when made at home). Powdered milk, cocoa powder and sugar. You then add water to it to reconstitute everything.
But I just don’t see the point in all that. First of all, there’s nothing clean about powdered milk. And second, I’ve honestly never liked “watering down” my hot chocolate. I much prefer the richness that comes when making it with real milk. I avoid anything that involves water like the plague when it comes to my hot chocolate, and so does Mini Chef.
I enjoy keeping this mix around for my little guy. He loves “getting snuggly”. Give him a fireplace, a warm snuggly blanket and a cup of hot chocolate and he’s happy as a bug in a rug. Some of my favorite memories are of him laying in front of the fireplace at my mom’s house. He loves to set up his blankets in front of the fireplace and tuck him and his stuffies in underneath them. He then stares into the fire as he sips his hot chocolate. He’s quite the little man in moments like those.
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Clean Eating Hot Chocolate Mix
- (Makes about 1 cup + 2 tbsp.)
- Ingredients:
- 1/2 level cup unsweetened, fair trade cocoa powder
- 1 level cup organic sucanat (affiliate link)
Directions:
Put both ingredients in a mixing bowl and whisk to blend well.
Do your best to smash larger clumps. You want the pieces to be as small and as close to a powder consistency as possible. Larger clumps will change the flavor of your hot chocolate and make it slightly more bitter. So break them up the best you can. This may take a minute or two.
You can also put the ingredients in a plastic, Ziploc bag and mash it with your hands until the larger clumps are gone.
To make chocolate milk, simply combine 1 tbsp. mix with 1 cup of milk (any kind).
NOTE: This mix is purposefully not overly sweet (believe it or not). If you want a sweeter hot chocolate, I strongly recommend adding more sucanat to your hot chocolate AFTER making it and pouring into mugs or cups. That way, each person can sweeten it to their own tastes.
Nutritional Content:
(Data is for 1 tbsp. mix. Does not include milk.)
Calories: 45
Total Fat: 0 gm
Saturated Fats: 0 gm
Trans Fats: 0 gm
Cholesterol: 0 mg
Sodium: 1 mg
Carbohydrates: 12 gm
Dietary fiber: 1 gm
Sugars: 11 gm
Protein: 0 gm
Please Note: Nutritional information estimated at MyFitnessPal.com. Data may not be accurate and is subject to the availability of specific foods in their database. Where one ingredient is not listed, substitutions must be used. Therefore, you should not refer to this data as being exact. It’s more of a ballpark figure. The Gracious Pantry does not take responsibility for the inadequacies of the nutrition calculator used. This data is provided as a courtesy and general reference only. It is not exact.