Vegan Chai Hot Chocolate Recipe
Published 11/11/2018 • Updated 6/29/2023
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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
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.
Watch It
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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I just want to say you’re killin it on the recipes lately! I made your rice pudding (last week, I think) and it was so good! Even better cold the next day! I’m thinking I’ll have to make this hot chocolate as a treat tonight.
Also, come to Phoenix if you’re looking for some warm weather. Fall is nowhere to be found!
o0o YAY! Question for you. Did it turn out crunchy? Someone made it this week and complained it was crunchy :/. Did you have to do any modifications to the original recipe?!
I cooked it on the stove instead a rice cooker, but other than that no substitutions! I covered it while it was simmering to keep the liquid in. I can see it coming out crunchy if the lid was left off, though!
Hmmmmmmm. Well I’m glad it turned out for you 😀
Never even thought of making my own Chai Spice but I’ve got all these spices so why not?
Also, target might put me in the poor house too so I feel ya. I try not to step foot in there for anything unless I absolutely have to or I’ll go crazy. I keep failing at that tho haha
I try not to go more than twice a week 😀 Since they are headquartered here in Minnesota, we literally have like 2 in every town. TARGET ERRYWHERE!
Ha ha Target and Costco seriously are the blackholes of shopping. Go in for 1 thing, come out with 10 things you totally don’t need but want! Cute mugs though!
This looks so good. How many times do you typically need to test a recipe before it comes out the way you want it to? PS I totally send my fiancé for things at the store too and he comes home with the wrong thing. #itsthethoughtthatcounts, right?
Hmmmmmmm all recipes vary. Usually baked good are at least 2 times, but a lot of things come out great the first time…especially if you modify old recipes that worked! This recipe in particular…I had started off with 1 tablespoon of cocoa powder and half the amount of chai spice and then doubled it after taste testing it. Technically I only made it once….
PS: That’s why I’m not aloud to get a Costco membership. I’d spend my life savings there.
Come visit me in CA if you’re not quite ready to move into fall yet… Sunny and 90° with no end in sight! I practically have to turn the A/C on full-blast to make it feel like pumpkin weather indoors. 😉 And this chai hot chocolate? Totally brilliant! They’re my mom’s two favorite drinks — she’d get a kick of of this!! Pinned!
OMG SO JEALOUS. What part of cali do you live in? I lived in the Bay Area for a while when I was little. I’m a total California Girl 😀
NO WAY!!! I was born and raised in the East Bay Area. Small world!! 🙂 What part of the Bay were you in?
Pleasanton! I want to say from 1993 to 1997?
Those adorable cups…I can’t even. I never walk out of Target without paper towels, one item of clothing, lip gloss, and Amy’s burritos. It gets me EVERY TIME. Pinning!
Is it me or do food bloggers use an OBSCENE amount of paper towels. Like at least a roll a week.
Those mugs are SO cute!! I am so glad that hot cocoa weather is almost here 🙂
WOOT WOOT! It’s going to be in a blink of an eye. #whomp
With the cold weather hitting this little cup of goodness will hit the spot.
I can’t believe how warm it’s going to be here this weekend! Like 4 days in a row of 80 degree weather. That’s pretty good for September! Where are you from?!
I saw this on Pinterest and had to swing by and say….LOVE it!!
I loooove chai, but I also really love those mugs! Target sucked me into their new fall mugs last week as well. How do they do that EVERY TIME?!
EVERY TIMEEEEEEe. So worth it though, because now you can use it in photos on your site…and even write the mugs off as “blog props.” That’s what I did at least 😉
Are you writing off my half of the mugs too? 😉 Leevida LLC
SHHHHHHHhhhhhh
Wow, this looks delish. Two weeks ago I did my own almond milk. Well it was okay, but I still love cow’s milk. And cocoa powder is too strong for me. Last week I did a chia pudding with cocoa powder and it was awful 🙂
My maple syrup chia pudding (another variation)turned out too sweet. I thought 1/4 cup is 80ml instead of 60ml hahaha….
But I have to try the chai spice.. I love chai latte!
Love
Jocelyne
Wellll Geeee I need to try making my own almond milk. I’ve seen so many people do it and I’ve been inspired! Are you using sweetened cocoa powder or unsweetened?! I use unsweetened so that it’s not so intense…and then you can just sweeten it yourself 😀