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Sugar Free Hot Chocolate Recipe

March 9, 2015 By Gwen Brown 17 Comments

Sugar Free Hot Cocoa The perfect sugar free hot chocolate recipe has eluded me, until now. I’ve tried many, many variations on low carb or sugar free hot cocoa, only to be left not in love. Which is so sad, because I’m a girl who LOVES her hot cocoa and hot chocolate!

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Not to be deterred by multiple failures, I continued to test and tweak until I found a recipe that delights me. It’s the perfect blend of sweet, chocolaty, and has just the right feel and creaminess to it. I’m so delighted to have a new hot chocolate recipe that I can love, and that will love me back by not packing on the pounds.

 

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Trim Healthy Mama category: Made as written, it’s a low cal (and can be dairy free!) treat. But you can always top it off with a generous swirl of whipped cream and call it an S treat.

Hope you enjoy! Here’s your printable and your pin:

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Sugar Free Hot Chocolate Recipe
 
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I've had a hard time finding a sugar free hot chocolate recipe to fall in love with, but I think this is the one- you can keep it light (aka FP for my Trim Healthy Mama friends) or up the fat content for a decadent hot chocolate experience!
Author: Gwen
Recipe type: Beverages
Serves: 1 serving
Ingredients
  • 1 cup almond milk
  • 1-2 packets of sweetener of your choice (1 teaspoon of a stevia blend)
  • ¼ teaspoon mct oil or ½ teaspoon butter
  • 2 teaspoons cocoa powder
  • tiny pinch of salt
  • ¼ teaspoon hydrolyzed gelatin, optional- for that silky texture
Instructions
  1. Warm all ingredients, whisking to combine well. I will sometimes put it all in a pint jar and put the lid on and shake.
  2. For a decadent S treat, add up to 1 tablespoon of cream or half & half, or top with stevia sweetened whipped cream.
Notes
Nutrition Information
Fat: 4.2 Carbohydrates: 1.3 net
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FINALLY! A sugar free hot cocoa that's worth loving- Can be df/sf/ef!

Filed Under: Drinks & Beverages, Low Glycemic Sweets & Desserts, Recipes, THM Drinks & Beverages, THM FP Drinks & Beverages, THM FP Recipes, Uncategorized Tagged With: dairy free

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  1. Laura Sauriol says

    September 8, 2015 at 5:21 PM

    Can’t wait for the cooler weather to try this. Two questions. What is an “S” treat? and which gelatin did you use?

    Thanks!

    Reply
    • Gwen Brown says

      September 8, 2015 at 8:43 PM

      “S” is short for “Satisfying”, and it’s lingo from the Trim Healthy Mama book, which you can read about here. 🙂 It means a snack with healthy fats for fuel. And I use the hydrolyzed (green can) gelatin for this one…I didn’t want it gelling up on me. 🙂

      Reply
  2. Marie says

    November 16, 2015 at 9:12 PM

    This was great, but I had to up the sweetener a lot. By ‘stevia blend’ do you mean something like Truvia? I used 1/2 teaspoon of (homemade) Truvia and it was undrinkable – maybe there is a typo? Added about 8 drops of liquid stevia and it was much better.

    Reply
    • Marie says

      November 16, 2015 at 9:14 PM

      PS. I love your food photography. 🙂

      Reply
  3. Ann says

    December 29, 2015 at 1:56 AM

    Is hydrolyzed gelatin like thm “just gelatin” or “collagen”

    Reply
    • Gwen Brown says

      December 29, 2015 at 12:09 PM

      Yes! They’re all the same product-just different names for it. 🙂

      Reply
  4. Ally says

    January 28, 2016 at 8:36 PM

    I also love my hot cocoa, and I really don’t care for the flavor of almond milk so just adding cocoa and stevia and heating it up was not cutting it. I made this with the butter (and wow, I would not have thought of that!), a shake of powdered stevia extract and plain old unflavored Knox gelatin, and it was…better, the pinch of salt is truly necessary even with salted butter and the gelatin creates a lovely smooth texture (plus it’s quite filling!). But it’s still mostly almond milk, and almond milk is mostly water, and the taste is not deceptive of that fact. I added cream and it did help; my experience so far is that trying to make E/FP treats taste rich is a lost cause, and it’s better to just go with their natural lightness and make charming fruit desserts, frozen yogurt and muffins for those meals and leave the decadence to real cream and butter. I will try this again, though, and I think next time I’ll increase the cocoa and add some vanilla to round it out. If it’s going to be an S anyway, some dark chocolate grated into the heating almond milk could really deepen the flavor.

    Reply
    • Gwen Brown says

      January 30, 2016 at 2:36 AM

      I agree…I like the rich S, and I admit to using half & half in mine to make it creamier. 🙂 I love the melted chocolate idea! I’m toying with a mix with chocolate in it. 🙂

      Reply
  5. Angie says

    May 11, 2016 at 1:37 AM

    Gwen
    You nailed it on this recipe! It’s my new go-to night time treat! Thanks for sharing it with us!!

    Reply
  6. stacy says

    July 13, 2016 at 12:55 AM

    how do you heat it up or do you add hot water

    Reply
    • Gwen Brown says

      July 22, 2016 at 11:37 PM

      You can warm everything in a small saucepan or in the microwave. 🙂

      Reply
  7. Tina says

    November 30, 2016 at 8:16 PM

    I love this so much. Been drinking it daily for the last week. 🙂

    Reply
    • Gwen Brown says

      December 5, 2016 at 3:52 AM

      Awesome, Tina! That makes my day. 🙂

      Reply
  8. Nicole Bennett says

    March 20, 2020 at 10:52 PM

    I just made this, but improvised a bit. I added hot water, powdered collagen, cocoa, stevia, and whipping cream – thank-you I needed something hot & sweet without compromise, flavour and sugar

    Reply

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