11 Delicious Hot Chocolate Recipes Guaranteed To Warm You Up

Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate

This beautiful slow cooker hot chocolate recipe from The Foodie Teen is paleo and vegan and cooks in the slow cooker (yes you read that right). You just whisk it all together and it’ll cook in a few hours. No dairy, no refined sugar - and it uses raw cacao. So it’s pretty healthy and guilt-free. Hurray!

Hot Chocolate with Sea Salt Whipped Cream

Eva from the blog Adventures in Cooking created this luxurious hot chocolate with sea salt whipped cream after enjoying an incredible hot chocolate drink in Spain. She got home, tried to recreate it and ended up with this. “Yep,” she writes, “I put chocolate in the whipped cream too, and it was AMAZING.”  And the sea salt? “The hot chocolate slowly melted the bottom of the whipped cream island and made the whole drink slightly salty.” Sounds delicious.

Super Simple Nutella Hot Chocolate

Nutella hot chocolate is something to be celebrated - and this one even more so because it’s really simple to make. The recipe comes from Sarah, who writes at the blog The Sugar Hit. “It’s the kind of thing you can easily make at the drop of a hat,” she writes, “because really all you need to have in the house is some kind of milk, Nutella and a pinch of salt.” Well, what are you waiting for? (Don’t forget the toppings).

Hot White Chocolate with Salted Caramel

White chocolate. And salted caramel. Lovely. And as if that wasn’t enough, Louise from the blog Louise’s Spis has added a splash of dark rum, too. Check out the recipe for hot white chocolate with salted caramel on her blog (Louise lives in Sweden but has kindly written the recipe out in English too. Scroll down to the bottom of her post to read it).

Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate

Love peanut butter and chocolate? Then you’re in luck. Sam, from the aptly-named blog Sweet Remedy came up with this silky peanut butter hot chocolate recipe. And you only need a few ingredients to make it. Looks divine.

Cherry Vanilla Hot Chocolate

Inspired by memories of hot chocolate treats as a child, Tracy from the blog Shutterbean created this grown-up version, which includes vanilla beans and - yep - cherry liqueur. She writes, “this cherry vanilla hot chocolate is rich, creamy and super decadent. Umm. Did I mention there’s butter in it!?” Swoon. Check it out on her website.

Salted Caramel Vodka Hot Chocolate

Another boozy hot chocolate, this time spiked with caramel vodka. The recipe was created by Kathryn from the blog London Bakes, after a stressful Christmas shopping trip. “ I think these should be a compulsory part of the Christmas shopping experience,” she writes. Yep. We’d agree.

Red Wine Hot Chocolate

“I don’t know,” writes Kylie, from the blog Imma Eat That. “It seemed like a good idea to me. But holy smokes it was RICH.” She’s talking about her red wine hot chocolate. “You eat chocolate with wine, so why not put chocolate in wine,” she asks. Makes sense. Kylie says that this hot chocolate is totally delicious but is better suited to “sipping out of a small glass than gulping from a mug.” Tempted? Check out the recipe on her website.

Spiked and Spicy Hot Chocolate

Over to Anita at A Cocktail Life for this drink, which she calls spiked and spicy hot chocolate. There’s lots going on. She’s put spices including cayenne pepper and ginger and then a glug of rum, for good measure. Click on through to find out how to make it.

Spiced Orange Mocha Hot Chocolate

We have Samina, at The Cupcake Confession, to thank for this spiced orange mocha hot chocolate. It looks incredible. She’s used ingredients such as coffee, nutmeg and orange to make this one, and topped it with peppermint marshmallows. “The warmth of the hot chocolate melts the marshmallows,” she writes, “and you get this creamy puddle of peppermint that refreshes your palate from all of the richness of the hot chocolate.” LOVE the sound of that.

Ultra Rich Hot Chocolate

Let’s face it. If there’s one thing that’s going to get anyone to try a new hot chocolate recipe, it’s the words ‘ultra rich.’ Claudia, from the blog Home Made with Love put this ultra rich hot chocolate together after being inspired by the hot chocolate she drank in Paris. Thick, creamy and intensely chocolatey, it looks gorgeous.

What are your favourite hot chocolate toppings or flavours? Let us know in the comments!

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