The easiest hot chocolate that uses pure chocolate and it only calls for three ingredients!
Hot chocolate has been my go-to drink for as long as I can remember. It’s been my savior during these chilly, rainy and now SNOWY days that we’ve been having here lately in NJ. I have it almost every single day and thought it was about time I share my favorite recipe with you! I do have another recipe on my site for hot chocolate (don’t mind the pictures, I was a newbie!) hat’s delicious as well but it uses cocoa powder while this one uses real chocolate. This one is the besssst and is ridiculously easy to make. And the best part is that it requires only THREE ingredients and ten minutes of your time!
Since hot chocolate is my thing, I am pretty picky about it. It has to be super chocolate-y, creamy and rich. I usually only use whole milk for my hot chocolate but if I’m making some for friends too, I usually use half heavy cream for an even creamier treat. Or even all heavy cream, but that kind of grosses me out, not gonna lie.
In the summer, frozen hot chocolate is my bessst friend.
 
In hot chocolate, using real chocolate lends a much richer and more pure chocolate tasting drink. Honestly, I do love both cocoa powder (I have a hot cocoa mix recipe coming soon.. it’s amazing so stay tuned!) and real chocolate based hot chocolates but real chocolate one reins supreme over the rest! You can play around with the amount of chocolate you’d like to add, I like mine with a deep chocolate flavor so I use a lot, feel free to use less.
One of my favorite ways to drink this hot chocolate is by adding a few drops of peppermint extract to create a peppermint hot chocolate. So good!
 
Try this recipe for the easiest and best hot chocolate ever!
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Real Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1/2 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- garnish with homemade whipped cream or marshmallows
Instructions
- Heat milk on medium heat until very hot, but not boiling. Stir in chocolate chips and vanilla. Start whisking rapidly until all chocolate is melted. (By whisking rapidly, this prevents a skin forming on the hot chocolate from the milk getting too hot.) Once everything is smooth, pour into glasses and enjoy!
Notes
Add 1/4-1/2 tsp of peppermint extract for peppermint hot chocolate.
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I love hot chocolate always have, I love mine with lots of cream marshmallows and sometimes i love having some cinnamon in. Most days when i am watching tv, when its raining or just when i feel like it i make hot chocolate. I probably have 6-10 cups a week lol love it.
Mmmm, cinnamon sounds like a yummy addition!
this is making me miss hot chocolate! i don’t think i’ve had any for a long while.. probably a couple years! no, i lie.. i’ve had frozen hot chocolate at serendipity, but i haven’t made my own hot chocolate or gotten the hot hot chocolate. looks so cozy for right about now!
Yumm, I love frozen hot chocolate too!
Oooh, hot chocolate is a favorite around here! When I was growing up, I loved it when my parents made homemade hot chocolate for my sister and I–instead of chocolate chips, they used cocoa powder and a pinch of sugar, which made for a less sweet cocoa. I haven’t ever tried making with the chocolate chips–time to start experimenting. 🙂
That’s a great way to make hot cocoa too. Chocolate chips are my favorite way, though 🙂
I’ve never made homemade hot cocoa, but I need to start! And I need to add a ton of marshmallows too! Yum!
Same! I love a massive amount of marshmallows! 🙂
yummy! I have seen a couple of recipes for homemade hot cocoa but have never tried it out before. I will now! I love hot cocoa during the colder months with marshmallows! They are so good and it is so satisfying on a cold winter day! Thank you so much for sharing this 🙂 I’m about to go make one right now!
Hope you loved it!!
Yum! Thank you for sharing, this hot chocolate looks absolutely delicious. I love how you styled these photos as well, mine never seem to come out nearly as nice. I’ll try making hot chocolate using your recipe some time next week for sure 🙂
Thanks so much for the comments about my photos!
I don’t like hot drinks – hot chocolate included but I really wish I did because it always looks so sweet with all the marshmallows. It’s great that hot chocolate is you thing and you want it to taste just right. Thanks for sharing the recipe, I’ll have to make this for my little boy, I know he’s at least love all the marshmallows 🙂
Definitely. My little guy’s favorite part is the marshmallows too. 🙂
Let me just say you take some stellar photos! Hot chocolate is my go-to drink as well! I am not much of a coffee drinker anyways but thanks for the recipe I really never thought to make my own hot chocolate without the package I bet this is richer! Definitely gonna try it!
Thank you so much!!
Hot chocolate is the ultimate comfort food specially for weather like this! I usually get my hot choco fix from the nearest Starbucks but if I am in the mood, I make some from scratch, I mean from cocoa powder. I haven’t tried one with so much marshmallows 🙂