Holiday Recipe: Gingerbread Hot Chocolate

What are the holidays without a little hot chocolate? Certainly not tasty! The issue with hot chocolate is that it can be a sugar bomb. Did you know that a grande hot chocolate from Starbucks has 44 grams of carbs and 38 grams of sugar? That’s a lot, but the good thing is hot chocolate is super easy to make at home with a fraction of that sugar. Here is a delicious recipe for gingerbread hot chocolate that you’ll want to sip all the way through January.

Gingerbread Hot Chocolate

Ingredients

1 cup cashew milk or soy milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 tablespoons cacao powder
1 teaspoon blackstrap molasses
1 teaspoon Ceylon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger powder
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
Pinch of ground cloves
Honey or maple syrup to taste

Instructions

In a medium saucepan, heat the milk with vanilla.
Add cocoa powder, molasses, and spices. Cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally until cocoa is dissolved completely. Do not overcook and do not boil.
Cook for few minutes, just until the mixture is steaming and is warmed thoroughly. Add maple syrup or honey to taste (optional).
Remove from heat and pour into mugs.
Top with whipped coconut cream, and dust it with cocoa powder, roughly chopped dark chocolate or crushed cacao beans.

Toppings:

Whipped coconut cream
Cacao beans
Cocoa Powder or dark chocolatefor dusting

Nutrition

This recipe is from Natalieshealth.com