Hot Chocolate

[Angie CupcakeQueen]

I spent today at home with my niece Katy who was home sick from school. Strep throat. Not good.
Anyway, I had a craving for hot chocolate but since I am lactose intolerant with dairy sensitivities, I cannot have store bought hot cocoa so I decided to make my own.
The last couple years I’ve made my own mix but it never turns out that great.
Today I did something different. I didn’t measure anything though.
I put milk in a small sauce pan and put it on to simmer, then added unsweetened cocoa powder, sugar, vanilla extract, unsweetened chocolate, coconut sweetened condensed milk and salt. I played around with it a bit before I was done. The result was a rich, thick cocoa that was great but too rich so I added some milk to it and it was delicious.
Coconut hot chocolate. Definitely going to make this again.

 

[ChesterV]

Ummmm.............sorry to point out the obvious.............

but if you are dairy sensitive, why did you use milk?



I've made dairy free chocolate milk before, and it was pretty good. I used water instead of milk, and once the hot chocolate was made, I put in some plain, dairy free, coffee creamer. It turned out pretty good.

 

[Angie CupcakeQueen]

Ummmm.............sorry to point out the obvious.............

but if you are dairy sensitive, why did you use milk?



I've made dairy free chocolate milk before, and it was pretty good. I used water instead of milk, and once the hot chocolate was made, I put in some plain, dairy free, coffee creamer. It turned out pretty good.

I use lactose free milk. Sometimes almond milk. There are certain dairy products that are lactose free that I still have to be careful with but otherwise it’s fine.