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Hey, welcome back. Today I'm giving you a little bit of a bonus episode. Totally unplanned, unscripted
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I know it's super cold for most of you. Not me, I live in Miami, but for everyone else I thought
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I would give you a super quick and easy vegan hot chocolate recipe. So the first thing I want
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to mention is there's a difference between hot chocolate and hot cocoa. Some people just use
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the terms interchangeably, but there is a slight difference where hot cocoa is usually just cocoa
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powder and sugar, whereas hot chocolate actually has chocolate bars melted into it. So we're going
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to make the hot chocolate today with the melted chocolate bars, which is really rich and thick
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If you prefer something more like a hot cocoa that's a little bit thinner, I do have a recipe
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for that on my website as well in addition to the hot chocolate recipe. So I'll put the links for
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both of those below and you can pick whichever one you want. So with this recipe I'm going to be
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using Oatly oat milk. You can use whatever non-dairy milk you want, but I will mention that I tested
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multiple different non-dairy milks. And I am a diehard 365 almond milk person, but when I tasted
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them all in this hot chocolate recipe there was nothing as good as the Oatly. So I recommend that
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you use that one. Also if you're looking for vegan marshmallows to go in your hot chocolate
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Trader Joe's has their own brand of vegan marshmallows. And in this recipe I'm going to be
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using the Dandy's brand, which I got at Whole Foods, but it is available at a lot of different
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supermarkets. All right, let's get started because this is super quick and easy. So we're going to put
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two cups of Oatly in a saucepan and we're going to whisk in two tablespoons of unsweetened cocoa
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powder, two tablespoons of maple syrup, and an eighth of a teaspoon of salt. You want to whisk that
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until it is nice and even and then we're going to turn on the heat to medium and keep whisking
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until the milk is just starting to steam. You don't want it to boil, but you should see steam
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coming off of the milk. Once the milk starts steaming we're going to add in our baking chocolate
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So I'm using three ounces of bittersweet baking chocolate. Mine is 70% cacao. Keep whisking that
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until everything is smooth and then we're going to take it off the heat
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and add half a teaspoon of vanilla extract. And at this point we're basically done
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Mmm this hot chocolate is just so rich and creamy. By the way, this will make four normal size mugs
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of hot chocolate or two giant mugs like this one. I actually ordered these online and
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I knew they were big. They said 16 ounces, but I just I just didn't picture them to be this big
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I just I just didn't picture them to be this big so..
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But here we are. Anyway, thank you so much for watching this short little video
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Hope you stay warm out there and I'll see you next time
