Oooh sometimes in my dairy-free, wheat-free – mostly sugar-free life – I allow myself a wee treat or two. This week I found two ‘naughty’ items at my local organic grocer that sparked my imagination – a Halloween Hot Chocolate Recipe!
First, presto-ready coconut whipped cream in a can – at the push of a nozzle!:
Secondly, natural pumpkin-spice marshmallows:
So I decided to make this scrumptious Halloween Hot Chocolate:
Halloween Hot Chocolate Recipe – Dairy-Free, Reduced Sugar
Heat a mug’s worth of your choice of almond, coconut, cashew, hemp milk etc. in a small saucepan
Whisk in about a teaspoon of unsweetened cocoa powder:
Then sweeten with a tiny spoonful of KAL Stevia:
And if I want to mask the stevia taste, I add about this much non-GMO Xylitol:
Drop a few marshmallows in the mug (to support the whipped coconut cream):
Lastly, top with the whip cream, some shaved chocolate and a few more marshmallows:
And YES. This really does taste as good as it looks!
The marshmallows and the coconut whipped cream both contain sugar, but by using stevia/xylitol to sweeten the hot chocolate, we do avoid a considerable amount (versus a ‘normal’ hot chocolate).
Jini Patel Thompson is an internationally recognized expert on natural healing for digestive diseases. She healed herself from widespread Crohn’s Disease and has remained drug and surgery-free for over 25 years. Jini has appeared on numerous podcast, TV, and radio shows throughout the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia, giving people hope and vision for how they can heal their Colitis, Crohn’s, Diverticulitis and Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), using entirely natural methods. Her books on natural healing for digestive diseases have sold worldwide in over 80 countries.
