December 17, 2013
Crockpot Hot Chocolate
Crockpot Hot Chocolate – The most creamy, sweet hot chocolate you’ll ever taste. The perfect recipe for serving hot chocolate to a crowd!
How do you serve a large amount of hot chocolate?
Answer: crockpot!!! This way of making hot chocolate is perfect for a crowd. You can make a huge batch and then serve it up by the cupful with a laddle.
How do you keep hot chocolate warm for a party?
Answer: the warm setting on the crockpot!!! This recipe is perfect if you’re doing a hot chocolate bar at a holiday party. Because the hot chocolate stays warm and you don’t have to do anything other than turn on the crockpot.
Is it better to make hot chocolate with milk or water?
Definitely milk! it makes hot chocolate way creamier than water. We actually use heavy cream in the recipe for extra richness. But you can use milk if you prefer.
What else to serve at a holiday party?
Crockpot Hot Chocolate
The most creamy, sweet hot chocolate you'll ever taste. The perfect recipe for serving hot chocolate to a crowd!
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Ingredients
- 6 cups milk
- 1 1/2 cups heavy whipping cream or 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 can 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 1/4 cups nutella
Instructions
- Add milk, sweetened condensed milk, whipping cream and vanilla extract to crock pot and quickly stir. Add nutella to crock pot and mix in, so nutella isn’t piled in one place.
- Cover and heat on low setting for 2 hours. Stir occasionally.
- Turn on keep warm setting after the 2 hours.
- Serve and top with whipping cream or marshmallows.
Yay! I will trust your family’s experimenting, and my jeans thank you!!
Let me know what you think of it if you try it!
I’m really enjoying all of your Christmas posts and recipes 🙂 keep them coming!!!
Yay!! I’m so happy to hear that… We enjoy writing them 🙂
Crockpot recipes are my favorite too! I love just throwing everything in and letting it do the work for me!
This has great flavor and is absolutely DELICIOUS!!!
I did find it too creamy though. I did not know that “too creamy” was possible, but it evidently is. Even my littlest guests found it too thick. I will use only milk next time, but other than that, it was fantastic. I did use the Trader Joe’s cocoa almond spread instead of Nutella, so maybe that is thicker?
I will say this, it has been used as a very delicious and amazing chocolate coffee creamer and every cup of coffee has made me a happy girl.
No complaints, just a warning if you don’t like stuff too thick. This stuff is SO yummy!
Thanks for the feedback! We have never made this with almond butter, but based on the super thick/creamy/stick-to-the-top-of-your-mouth qualities that almond butter has, I would guess that the almond butter made the hot chocolate much more creamy and wouldn’t want the extra cream! But so glad you liked the flavor. 🙂
The Trader Joe’s Cocoa Almond spread isn’t almond butter; it is almost exactly Nutella, except that TJ’s uses almond instead of hazelnut. It is essentially the same stuff. Nearly the same texture, flavor, and consistency (when eaten off of a spoon… not that I would do that *smirk*) as Nutella, just TJ’s brand.
I can’t imagine that I would love an almond butter version of this, but who knows.
Oh. 🙂 In that case I will make a note that it could be too creamy for some!
How many people will this serve in one recipe?
This will serve 15-20 people!
Can I just say that you should add some ability to rate your recipes – because this deserves 5 stars! I found this recipe in 2014 and have always come back to it every couple years when I host (it would be more often if I was willing to make it for just myself but then I would make it every week which my butt cannot handle). But like an idiot, I never save it so I always have to search for it and today I realized that when all of the recipes popped up, that this one didn’t show any ratings in google. So sad because this recipe deserves a lot more recognition.
Aw!!! Thank you!!