This luxuriously rich and creamy homemade vegan hot chocolate is the perfect way to warm you up from the cold of winter!

5 ingredient vegan hot chocolate

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With just five basic ingredients, it?s super easy to make, and completely delicious. You might already have all the ingredients on hand to be fully prepared for Christmas, Valentine’s Day, snow days, or any time a hot chocolate craving hits.

The best thing about making your own hot cocoa at home (besides saving money) is that you get to be in control of all the ingredients.

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How to make hot chocolate like Starbucks

To recreate the Starbucks hot cocoa, I first looked at their ingredients:
Almondmilk [Filtered Water, Almonds, Sugar, Tricalcium Phosphate, Sunflower Lecithin, Sea Salt, Xanthan Gum, Guar Gum, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D2 (Ergocalciferol)], Mocha Sauce [Water, Sugar, Cocoa Processed With Alkali, Vanillin].

Okay so? milk, sugar, vanilla, and cocoa processed with alkali (which just means they use Dutch cocoa).

Sounded pretty easy, and the Starbucks hot chocolate can actually already be vegan, which is good to know if you?re ever out running errands and find yourself craving hot chocolate.

For my homemade dairy free hot chocolate recipe, instead of combining water, sugar, and cocoa to make a sauce, I decided to streamline it and omit the water, both for simplicity and to not dilute th...