Finally, a hot cocoa replacement!
melba_321
Posts: 65 Member
I have always loved hot cocoa, but I would find most everything too sweet and/or full of junk, and I'd end up adding in instant coffee to cut the sweetness...even with making it myself. Stevia to me just makes it gross! Thanks to BabyPhit for suggesting the coconut sugar! 
Recipe...
1 tsp. Nutiva Organic EV Coconut Oil
1.5 TBSP - cocoa powder
1/4 cup Coconut Milk (I used Thai Kitchen Premium, unsweetened, first pressing, canned)
3/4 cup Blue Diamond Almond Breeze unsweetened
1 tsp. Madhava - Organic Coconut Sugar (Granulated Coconut Nectar - Blonde)
Melt oil in saucepan, blend in cocoa & sugar until fully dissolved, then whisk in the milks as it heats. This comes out not too sweet and not bitter. For more sweetness, you will want to add more coconut sugar.
207 calories - 4 g protein - 12 g carbs. - 20 g fat
I also added Raw Organic Whey (concentrate) Powder into mine and it's still really good. *when adding protein powder, I had to use a stick blender or else it gets little clumps.
damn, with the rounding in MFP --macros are wrong here too, since they calculate to 244 Calories. I'm sorry, but I am a wee bit too lazy to manually do calculations.
*note, you can also add in real vanilla extract, but I like leaving it out of my hot cocoa. xD
Recipe...
1 tsp. Nutiva Organic EV Coconut Oil
1.5 TBSP - cocoa powder
1/4 cup Coconut Milk (I used Thai Kitchen Premium, unsweetened, first pressing, canned)
3/4 cup Blue Diamond Almond Breeze unsweetened
1 tsp. Madhava - Organic Coconut Sugar (Granulated Coconut Nectar - Blonde)
Melt oil in saucepan, blend in cocoa & sugar until fully dissolved, then whisk in the milks as it heats. This comes out not too sweet and not bitter. For more sweetness, you will want to add more coconut sugar.
207 calories - 4 g protein - 12 g carbs. - 20 g fat
I also added Raw Organic Whey (concentrate) Powder into mine and it's still really good. *when adding protein powder, I had to use a stick blender or else it gets little clumps.
damn, with the rounding in MFP --macros are wrong here too, since they calculate to 244 Calories. I'm sorry, but I am a wee bit too lazy to manually do calculations.
*note, you can also add in real vanilla extract, but I like leaving it out of my hot cocoa. xD
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I don't eat almond milk (but I just heard one of our stores is going to start stocking unsweetened almond milk soon!) or added sugar, but I do enjoy a scoop of organic/fair trade cocoa in the Bulletproof coffee on occasion.
If I could play with the recipe and get it to 20g fat, 12 protein, 4 carb... I'd be hooked. :drinker:0 -
The cocoa adds 5 g of carbs and coconut sugar adds in 4 g carbs...according to MFP (as you know, they round up all too often). lol If you like a milk chocolate taste, then you could probably get away with using 3/4 to 1 TBS of cocoa powder. Too, I'm using Ghirardelli at the moment. I still need to replace that with an organic cacao. So, there might be a slight difference. Then of course, the sugar can be eliminated.
After adding in the organic whey powder, it brought mine up to... 256 calories - 14 protein - 13 carbs- 21 fat (again, as per MFP and the macros aren't 100%, since calculating the #'s makes it 297 calories, which isn't correct)0
