Vegan Chai Hot Chocolate that’s ready to drink in 5 minutes! This delicious vegan hot chocolate is low calorie, creamy and full of chai flavor. Make this homemade chai hot chocolate recipe today!
HOT CHOCOLATE. One of my all time faves in the fall and winter months. It really brings me back to all the years I spent at skating rinks growing up. After a long evening of practice, I’d always grab a hot chocolate from the concession stand on my way out. You know, the kind that came in a packet with those tiny hard marshmallows. Anyway, we thought we’d figure out a way to create a clean ingredient vegan hot chocolate that has all the delicious creamy chocolate flavors or our coconut hot chocolate recipe, but with the added kick of a little chai spice. We knew we wanted to use our DIY Chai Spice for this, too. It’s been sitting patiently in the cabinet waiting for this season 😀
If you don’t have the time or ingredients to make your own chai spice, it will be easy to find this time of year at pretty much any grocery store. But, I do have to say, making your own mix is SO MUCH BETTER. And you can always mix up a big batch to last you all season. Yum. Let’s get into this recipe!
How to Make Hot Chocolate (with Chai!)
Step 1: Gather your vegan chai hot chocolate ingredients:
- Almond milk
- Cocoa powder
- Chai spice (here’s our fave DIY chai spice recipe!)
- Vanilla extract
- Maple syrup
Step 2: Pour wet ingredients in a medium sauce pan, and then add in your dry ingredients. Bring to a rolling boil and stir with a whisk until all dry ingredients have dissolved. Reduce heat and let simmer for 3-5 minutes.
Step 3: Pour in mugs and add your favorite whipped cream, frothed milk or mallows, and enjoy! This recipe serves 2, but feel free to double or triple if you’re serving a crowd.
Vegan Chai Hot Chocolate
Ingredients
- 4 cups unsweetened almond milk
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1.5 teaspoons DIY Chai Spice
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 3 tablespoons maple syrup or more to taste
Instructions
- Place all ingredients in a medium-size saucepan. Bring to a rolling boil and whisk until spices and cocoa powder have dissolved. Reduce heat and let simmer for 3-5 minutes.
- Top with your favorite whipped cream or frothed milk.
This was so good! Instead of using maple syrup, I used 1 packet of stevia per serving (4 total for the recipe) because I have a sweet tooth! It was delicious 🙂
Delicious *vegan* way to warm up during the fall, especially when it’s snowing outside!
Almond milk or coconut milk with cacao powder and Stevia along with a pinch of cinnamon or sea salt is my favorite healthy hot chocolate combination! The chai spice is unique though–I have never tried that flavor before, but I definitely have to upon stumbling on this recipe! Your mug of hot chocolate looks glorious! I’d slurp it up by the fireplace any evening!
Thankyou very much for this recipe. I will try to make it.
those little mugs are really cute
Thank you! TARGET!
I halved the recipe and used unsweetened vanilla almond milk and two Truvia packets. I topped it with a bit of ReddiWip. It was tasty, but not quite sweet enough for my taste. Next time, I’ll be sure to use sweetened vanilla almond milk.
Your chai hot chocolate recipe is phenomenal!! My fiance and I are both allergic to dairy so we looked for a recipe to make our own and this one wins hands down! We live in Phoenix so we never really get hot cocoa weather but we’ve made it for every trip we’ve taken up to the mountains (i.e. – cold weather) this year. Thank you!
Yay! This comment totally made my day. I am so glad you guys love the recipe! You should try it over ice for a chilled version in that AZ heat 😉
This looks absolutely DIVINE! Can’t believe cocoa weather is here already…definitely making this…and heading to Target for these mugs!!
I know right. Kind of sad. I love fall, but not what comes after it 😉