Gingerbread Hot Chocolate

I’ll show you how to make the best gingerbread hot chocolate at home in 10 minutes, whether you need 4 mugs or 1!

Gingerbread Hot Chocolate Recipe 

Although I love coffee all year round, the holidays are that time of the year when my mugs are filled with another sippable favorite: hot cocoa! My kids love the classic recipe but also enjoy all the different variations I make for them, like this gingerbread hot chocolate.

It tastes like my classic gingerbread cake, and it's easy to make in 10 minutes with milk and a few simple ingredients from your pantry. Are you already dreaming of sipping a cup of this hot cocoa? I do!

How to Make Gingerbread Hot Cocoa 

Here is what you need to know about the steps:

1. Combine dry ingredients in a small dish: cocoa powder, sugar, salt, and spices. Use a mug if you're making a single serving.
2. Make the hot cocoa by whisking the dry mix with water on the stove until you get a liquid chocolatey mixture. Add the milk and heat it up, making sure it doesn't boil (or it could burn!). Right before serving, add vanilla. For one mug, combine the dry mix with hot milk.
3. Serve this gingerbread hot chocolate with whipped cream, marshmallows,
4. or your favorite hot cocoa toppings. Don’t forget the mini gingerbread men on the side!

More Hot Cocoa Recipes

If fall flavors are your thing, you should also try my pumpkin spice hot chocolate and this peppermint hot chocolate, or even this epic spicy hot cocoa. For fun and colorful mugs, you need this raspberry hot chocolate in your life.

Gingerbread Hot Cocoa (1 mug or 4!)

Servings: 4

Cook Time: 8 minutes mins

Total Time: 8 minutes mins

Enjoy all the classic gingerbread flavors in a warm and rich cup of hot chocolate that will immediately become a new holiday favorite!

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Ingredients

• ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• ½ cup brown sugar, or regular
• Pinch salt
• 2 teaspoons ground ginger
• 2 teaspoons cinnamon
• ¼ teaspoon nutmeg
• ⅓ cup hot water
• 6 cups milk, dairy or non-dairy
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

Prep:

• In a small dish, combine the cocoa powder, sugar, salt, ground ginger, cinnamon, and nutmeg.

Make the hot cocoa:

• In a medium saucepan over medium heat, whisk the water and the cocoa powder, sugar, and spices mixture. Continue stirring constantly until the cocoa powder and sugar have turned into a liquid chocolatey mixture.
• Pour in the milk, and warm it up over medium heat until it's hot -do not boil it, or you'll risk burning the milk.
• Turn off the heat and stir in the vanilla. Pour into mugs and serve immediately.

Notes

For one: in the bottom of a mug, mix 2 teaspoons of cocoa powder, 2 tablespoons of sugar, ½ teaspoon ground ginger, ¼ teaspoon cinnamon, and a pinch of nutmeg. Heat 1 ¼ cups of milk until hot but not boiling (in the microwave or stovetop). Pour a little bit of the hot milk, just enough to cover the powdered mixture, and with a spoon or small whisk, until the cocoa, sugar, and spices have dissolved. Then, add ¼ teaspoon of vanilla pour the rest of the hot milk into the mug, and stir to combine.

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Nutrition

Serving: 1 cup | Calories: 278kcal | Carbohydrates: 50g | Protein: 13g | Fat: 4g | Saturated Fat: 3g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 0.1g | Monounsaturated Fat: 1g | Cholesterol: 18mg | Sodium: 148mg | Potassium: 701mg | Fiber: 3g | Sugar: 45g | Vitamin A: 697IU | Vitamin C: 0.05mg | Calcium: 488mg | Iron: 1mg