The Easiest Homemade Hot Chocolate Recipe (Just 3 Ingredients!)
Looking for an easy homemade hot chocolate recipe? The secret to perfect homemade hot chocolate is just three ingredients (that you probably have on hand right now!) Cocoa + Milk + Sugar. That's it! This recipe is so simple you'll never buy hot cocoa mix again.
Course Drinks
Cuisine American
Keyword chocolate, cocoa, hot chocolate, hot cocoa, hot drink, milk, sugar
Prep Time 5 minutesminutes
Cook Time 4 minutesminutes
Total Time 9 minutesminutes
Servings 4cups
Calories 300kcal
Author Beth
Ingredients
2TbspHershey’s cocoa powderunsweetened
1/2cupwhite sugar (use 1/4 cup sugar if you like your hot chocolate less sweet)
3 3/4cupmilk
1/4cupmilk (to be used separately from other milk)
Instructions
1. Stir together the cocoa powder and sugar in a medium saucepan.
2. Add 1/4 cup of milk and stir constantly over medium-high heat until mixture begins to boil. Continue stirring constantly until all sugar is dissolved. Do not let it burn.
3. Add the remaining milk to the pan and bring the heat up to the desired temperature.