This hot chocolate is made in the slow cooker—a versatile kitchen device that’s not just for savory meals like sweet potato turkey chili! It’s mega creamy and so undeniably chocolate-y and rich that it should come with a warning label. It honestly tastes like pure melted chocolate with a creamy, frothy texture. Because guess what? It’s made with pure melted chocolate! HEAVENS YES. Ingredients for you real quick: milk and cream. Use whole milk and heavy cream for the creamiest texture. 1% or 2% milk would be excellent as well, as long as you’ve got that heavy cream in there. That’s where most of the decadence comes from! Also: cocoa powder and pure chocolate. Just a little cocoa. I used natural unsweetened but you can use dutch-process here. There’s no baking involved, so it can be an easy switch. (Remember the difference between Dutch-process vs. natural cocoa powder? Good to know for baking!) Make sure you don’t use chocolate chips. Save those for chocolate chip cookies. They don’t melt down very easily and will separate from the liquid. But pure chocolate melts down beautifully. And tastes better as a drink, too! Sugar for sweetness and vanilla for a little extra flavor. That’s it. Just throw it into the slow cooker, whisk every now and then, and it’s done. Takes 5 minutes of prep and either 6 hours on low or 4 hours on high. Make this decadent slow cooker hot chocolate for a treat while decorating sugar cookies! And have it warming in the slow cooker for all your cookie exchange parties, gift exchange parties, work holiday parties, and cookie baking marathon days. If you really want to go overboard with dessert (don’t we all?), serve this hot chocolate with hot cocoa cookies.
Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate Video
Required: extra marshmallows. Or even a (BIG) dollop of homemade whipped cream!
