Description
Creamy slow cooker hot cocoa brings festive warmth to winter gatherings with minimal effort. Rich chocolate mingles with smooth milk and sweet marshmallows, creating a comforting drink you’ll savor by the fireplace.
Ingredients
Scale
- 6 cups (1.4 L) milk
- 2 cups (340 g) milk chocolate chips
- 1 14-oz (397 g) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1.5 cups (360 ml) heavy whipping cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preparation: Position a large slow cooker, ensuring ample space for all liquid ingredients without potential spillage.
- Ingredient Fusion: Combine milk, heavy whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract, and chocolate chips into the slow cooker, creating a smooth liquid base with even ingredient distribution.
- Heating Process: Activate the slow cooker on low temperature, enabling gentle and consistent chocolate melting without risk of burning or scorching ingredients.
- Chocolate Integration: Periodically whisk the mixture every half-hour, facilitating uniform chocolate dissolution and preventing ingredient stratification or bottom-of-pot adhesion.
- Temperature Management: After approximately one hour, if chocolate chips remain unmelted, cautiously elevate the temperature to medium, continuing careful stirring to maintain a silky, homogeneous liquid texture.
- Serving Optimization: Transfer the slow cooker to warm setting once chocolate completely dissolves, preserving the ideal serving temperature and luxurious consistency.
- Final Preparation: Conduct a conclusive whisking to guarantee perfect ingredient blending, eliminating potential chocolate settlement.
- Presentation: Ladle the velvety hot cocoa into decorative mugs, garnishing with whipped cream or marshmallows for an elegant and indulgent finishing flourish.
Notes
- Prevent Overflow: Choose a slow cooker large enough to hold all ingredients comfortably, leaving at least 2 inches of space from the top to avoid messy spills.
- Chocolate Melting Technique: Stir every 30 minutes to guarantee smooth chocolate integration and prevent uneven melting or bottom-of-pot burning.
- Temperature Control: Start on low heat to gently melt chocolate, gradually increasing to medium if chips resist melting after an hour, ensuring a silky-smooth texture.
- Serving Perfection: Whisk thoroughly before serving to blend all ingredients completely, creating a luxurious, consistent hot cocoa with no settled chocolate at the bottom.
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 2 hours
- Category: Drinks, Desserts
- Method: Slow Cooking
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 9
- Calories: 410
- Sugar: 42 g
- Sodium: 150 mg
- Fat: 22 g
- Saturated Fat: 13 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 9 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 46 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 8 g
- Cholesterol: 70 mg