We’re a hot chocolate obsessed family, especially our teenage son. He loves it so much, it’s become a tradition to get him a hot chocolate related gift every year at Christmas. Do you know how hard it is to give a different type of hot chocolate related gift each year? It’s pushing my creativity buttons for sure! Well, he’ll be getting a hot cocoa bar “for 1” this year and I’m super excited about it! To get inspiration for his mini hot cocoa bar gift basket, I researched the best homemade hot cocoa recipes on the internet as inspiration! I’m not quite sure this batch can be classified as drinks, they definitely seem more dessert like to me!
I purchased most of the hot cocoa bar ideas at World Market, they had such a wide variety it was definitely hard to narrow it down. If I ever stop blogging and start wrapping gifts, I’ll add a photo of his mini hot cocoa bar basket!
I hope you enjoy my round-up of inspiring homemade hot cocoa recipes from amazing home chefs and food bloggers!
Cookies & Cream Hot Cocoa
Recipe by Sprinkle Some Sugar
Peanut Butter Hot Cocoa
Recipe by Certified Pastry Afictionado
Unicorn Hot Cocoa
Recipe by Cookies & Cups
I’m sure there’s many ways to create pink hot cocoa, you can color a white hot cocoa mix pink, heat up strawberry milk as your base or do what I did for my teenage son–he’s going to be mad over this one!–purchase pink Hello Kitty cocoa! They sell it at Cost Plus World Market, it was too unique to pass up!
Slow Cooker Almond Joy Hot Cocoa
Recipe by Melanie Makes
European Style Drinking Chocolate
Recipe by Crazy for Crust
Caramel Hot Cocoa
Recipe by Cooking Classy
Red Velvet Hot Chocolate
Recipe by Tidy Mom
Peppermint Mocha
Recipe by The Girl on the Floor
This is technically a drool worthy mocha recipe, but as a former barista, I’m telling you to just take the espresso out and it’d still be perfect!
Smores Hot Chocolate
Recipe by The Minimalist Baker
Toasted Marshmallow Cocoa
Recipe by How Sweet Treats
Matcha Honey Hot Chocolate
Recipe by How Sweet Eats
The Worlds Best Hot Cocoa
Recipe by Inspiration Kitchen
Hot Chocolate Floats
Recipe by Sugar Hero
By chance you want yours iced!
And last but not least, a couple ways to dress up your standard cocoa if you prefer to open a grocery store cocoa packet!
Frozen Whipped Cream Crubes
Recipe by The Cake Blog
Olaf Marshmallow Snowman
Recipe by Cully
Red mug with hot chocolate with melted marshmallow snowman
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