"healthified" Decadent Hot Chocolate

Name: "healthified" Decadent Hot Chocolate
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 10 min
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 3/4 cup, 4 serving(s)
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons sugar; 2 tablespoons unsweetened baking cocoa; 2 1/2 cups nonfat milk (skim); 1/2 cup fat-free half-and-half; 1/4 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (1 1/2 oz); 1/2 teaspoon vanilla

Submitted by lauralie41

"A recipe from Tablespoon.com that makes a healthier version of hot chocolate. 50% fewer calories, 77% less fat and 20% more calcium than the original recipe."

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photo by Baby Kato

Ready In:: 15mins
Ingredients:: 6
Yields:: 3/4 cup
Serves:: 4

ingredients

2 tablespoons sugar
2 tablespoons unsweetened baking cocoa
2 ¹⁄₂ cups nonfat milk (skim)
¹⁄₂ cup fat-free half-and-half
¹⁄₄ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (1 1/2 oz)
¹⁄₂ teaspoon vanilla

directions

Mix together the sugar and cocoa in a 2-quart saucepan. Stir in the skim milk and half and half until well blended and cook until heated. Do not bring to a boil. Remove pan from heat.
Whisk in chocolate chips and stir until chips are melted and the milk mixture is smooth. Stir in vanilla and pour into 4 mugs to serve.

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Reviews

Excellent Hot Chocolate Lauralie. I enjoyed it so much. I used 1% milk and dairy milk chips. So yummy, I did garnish mine with whipped cream. Thanks for sharing Lauralie, I will be making this decadent treat again. :)

Baby Kato
OUTSTANDING HOT CHOCOLATE! I did use 2% fat milk instead of the nonfat kind, but other than that the recipe was followed, & we thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful chocolate fix! Will certainly be making this one again & again! [Tagged, made & reviewed in Make My Recipe]

Sydney Mike
You can’t tell it’s healthy! Loved it used a cocoa with a bit of orange flavor

MarraMamba
I really enjoyed your hot chocolate this morning in place of my coffee. Used Splenda for the sugar and shaved bittersweet chocolate for the chips. Also added a fair pinch of cinnamon. Delicious! Thanks sweetie for a lovely treat.

Annacia
Yummy hot chocolate. I plan to make this again and experiment using different flavored chips, for example half chocolate chips and then half peanut butter chips or butterscotch or mint or cinnamon.

LainieBug

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Tweaks

OUTSTANDING HOT CHOCOLATE! I did use 2% fat milk instead of the nonfat kind, but other than that the recipe was followed, & we thoroughly enjoyed the wonderful chocolate fix! Will certainly be making this one again & again! [Tagged, made & reviewed in Make My Recipe]

Sydney Mike