My kids are BIG fans of hot chocolate! We like to make our hot chocolate from scratch rather than a packet, it just tastes better! We use milk when we make hot chocolate instead of water, and we think the easiest way to make hot chocolate is with a milk steamer. We have had probably 4 different milk steamers and finally invested in a large one that can hold 20 oz of liquid. While I like hot cocoa with cocoa powder, my kids aren’t fans of the taste, they say it tastes too rich and more dark chocolate tasting to them. I am sharing how my kids LOVE to make hot chocolate with chocolate chips! Also sharing our favorite milk steamer. By the way, do you call it hot chocolate or hot cocoa?? I feel like since we use actual chocolate chips rather than cocoa powder it warrants the name hot chocolate!

Making hot chocolate in a milk steamer is fast and more kid friendly for kids to make on their own, rather than making hot chocolate on a stove. I also like to use our milk steamer to heat up my hot drinks, because I can’t seem to drink them fast enough! We don’t own a microwave, so I love the multi-function.

Really you only need two ingredients to make hot chocolate. Milk and chocolate chips. We do add to more ingredients to boost the flavor.

Chocolate chips, a little sweetener or choice, milk of choice, vanilla and you have yourself homemade hot chocolate! Our exact recipe below….

Hot Chocolate Recipe

Easy and delicious homemade hot cocoa

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Total Time 5

Servings 1

Ingredients

1 cup milk any milk of choice, like oat milk
1/4 cup chocolate chips any chocolate of choice, we like milk
1 tsp truvia or any sweetener of choice
1 tsp vanilla

Instructions

Add all ingredients to your milk steamer and hit the steam or hot cocoa button
Pour in a mug and enjoy!
Optional- top with marshmallows or marshmallow fluff!

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Such a delicious sweet treat on those cold days!

We ended up purchasing the SMEG Milk Steamer because it holds 20 oz of liquid and matches our other SMEG appliances. I linked other milk steamers (below) that also have other functions, typically they can steam milk and also froth milk (more foamy) but make sure to check each one if you want it to do more than steam milk.

Milk Steamers *with other functions

SMEG Milk Frother– $229- 20 oz heating capacity (ps I like buying from here because best customer service!)
Maestri House– $89- 17 oz heating capacity
Breville– $159- 24 oz heating capacity
Secura– $52- 17 oz heating capacity
Starument– $49- 10 oz heating capacity
RATRSO– $59- 16 oz heating capacity