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
This is definitely a great recipe to bookmark!
With just five basic ingredients, it?s easy to make, and so delicious! And you might already have all the ingredients on hand, so you can be fully prepared any time a hot chocolate craving hits.
The best thing about making your own at home (besides saving money) is that you get to be in control of all the ingredients ? you can use more or less sugar depending on your desired tastes, add a little peppermint extract if you?re a chocolate peppermint fan like I am, or top it off with coconut whipped cream or Vegan Marshmallow Fluff.

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How To Make It 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 s...