Gingerbread Hot Chocolate Recipe

Gingerbread Hot Chocolate may be the most delightful drink you'll sip all season. Grab a mug and sit yourself in front of a roaring...

We drink a ton of hot chocolate in our household. We live in Canada, so our winters tend to be brutally cold. We spend a lot of time outside in the winter because we have horses. This is our favourite way to warm up after a long, hard, cold day. 

One of our favourite hot chocolate recipes is peppermint hot chocolate. It's sheer perfection around the holidays, and beyond. We also really dig coconut hot chocolate. It's so fun to make and tastes out of this world. Take it to the next level and top it with coconut whipped cream. 

What I love about this gingerbread hot chocolate recipe is it's super easy to make and uses ingredients you already have in your pantry. There is nothing fancy or hard to find in this recipe.

The ingredients are simple and easily accessible. I dig recipes where I don't have to spend hours hunting down ingredients. 

So many recipes call for molasses, which I personally always have on hand because of the horses. The downside is the molasses is usually in the barn fridge, not the home fridge. So, for this recipe, I use dark brown sugar so I get the flavour of molasses with one less step. I'm all about making things easy.

I also use Biscoff in this recipe. It makes the gingerbread hot chocolate taste like you’re drinking a gingerbread cookie.

I can't even handle the deliciousness that is Biscoff. It adds such a great flavour explosion to this recipe, without a lot of fuss and adding too many ingredients. Again, easy is my main goal here.

My other secret ingredient is chocolate milk. I know, what a concept. Simple, easy, and already packed with chocolatey goodness. It helps give it a flavour boost without having to melt chocolate. I do add cocoa powder because I want this recipe to be extra chocolatey and delicious. It's how I roll. 

This hot chocolate is made in a saucepan and cooked on the stovetop. I know, right? So old school.

I'm telling you right now there are only two ways to make GREAT hot chocolate. One is on the stove, and two is in a slow cooker. Do not microwave hot chocolate. Sorry, all you microwave lovers. I'm keeping it real here. 

Feel free to adapt this to your own taste. Add a little this, or a little that. There are no rules when it comes to hot chocolate. Make it the way you like it. That's the key to any successful recipe if you ask me. Taste as you go and adjust each recipe until it's perfect for you and makes your taste buds do the happy dance. 

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