Crockpot Nutella Hot Chocolate
The most perfectly creamy, super sweet hot chocolate you’ll ever taste.
All is right in the world when you drink this little concoction of mine.
We’ve all had powdery hot cocoa—watery, only vaguely chocolaty, and occasionally crunchy with undissolved marshmallow clumps. Still, cocoa was—and is—the best thing to stir into a mug on a winter afternoon.
Today’s hot chocolate recipe has come a long way from little packages with gritty marshmallows. It’s perfectly sweet with a super creamy base… and if you top it with homemade marshmallows… You’ll probably die and go to heaven.
I really wanted to serve Hot Chocolate for both of my Christmas parties this year, so my family and I took an afternoon a couple of weeks ago and experimented with as many hot chocolate recipes as we could find. We tried chocolates in all forms; solid, cocoa and syrup. We tested dark, milk and Dutch process. We used powdered milk, real milk, cream, powdered coffee creamer and water. Whipped cream? We used real, canned and frozen. We had great big marshmallows and tiny little ones.
What we finally settled on as the best hot chocolate ever and guess what the secret ingredients is?! Well, I guess if you read the title you already know…. but it’s NUTELLA!!
My jeans are already getting too tight, but that has not stopped me from drinking more Hot Chocolate with homemade whipped cream than I probably have in my entire life all together… leading up to my party and since the party, my family and I have made this every night after dinner… and sometimes for an after-school snack:
I just love the Holidays. I hope you enjoy this heavenly beverage!
Crockpot Nutella Hot Chocolate
The most perfectly creamy, super sweet hot chocolate you’ll ever taste.
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
Directions:
- 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.
- 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 🙂
Ah this looks so yummy!! Love crockpot recipes AND nutella… so this is heaven!
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!