Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate

If, like me, you love the peanut butter and chocolate combo, you’ll love the many recipes I have that use chocolate and peanut butter, such as my chocolate peanut butter chia pudding, chocolate peanut butter, or my crunchy gluten-free chocolate peanut butter. But one thing was missing, a peanut butter hot chocolate. This recipe started when I accidentally dropped one of my vegan peanut butter cups in my hot chocolate. It melted in the hot cocoa delivering the most delicious peanut butter flavor. In fact, peanut butter makes the most creamy hot chocolate without adding full-fat milk or cream. Somehow, it’s a healthier way to make ultra-thick hot chocolate because nut butter is packed with proteins, less saturated fat than dairy, and simply so tasty.

Ingredients and Substitutions

It’s so easy to make Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate recipe at home with just a few wholesome plant-based ingredients. All you need are the following:

Non-Dairy Milk of Choice – Any plant-based milk like oat milk, almond milk, or soy milk would taste good. But, to decrease calories, or carbohydrates, use unsweetened almond milk. Dark Chocolate Chips – Depending on the sweetness you want to achieve, pick from 55% vegan dark chocolate chips to 85% cocoa. Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – Prefer unsweetened as it makes it easier to control the sweetness. Natural Peanut Butter – Make sure your jar is fresh, drippy, and made from no added salt, no added sugar, or oil. Sugar – Any granulated sweetener works, like coconut sugar for a healthy flavor or unrefined cane sugar for a healthier twist. You can obviously use white sugar or your favorite sugar-free natural crystal sweetener like erythritol. Vanilla Extract

How To Make Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate

If you are a peanut butter lover, you must try peanut butter and hot chocolate together. I can guarantee that this brings your hot chocolate to the next level of decadence.

Flavoring Options

It’s optional to add spices to hot chocolate, but I truly love the addition below, from 1/8 teaspoon to 1/4 teaspoon.

Ground Cinnamon Chili powder Chia spice Peppermint essence

Serving

Before serving, taste the hot chocolate and adjust with more sugar if you like. Serve this hot chocolate with your favorite dairy-free whipped cream or my Vegan Whipped Cream, a dust of unsweetened cocoa powder, chocolate chips, and an extra drizzle of peanut butter.

Allergy Swaps

If you are allergic to some of this recipe’s ingredients, try the options below:

Nut-Free – Use dairy-free milk like soy milk, oat milk, or coconut milk. Replace the peanut butter with sunflower seed butter. Gluten-Free – Make sure you use gluten-free plant-based milk like almond milk or soy milk. Peanut-Butter-Free – Any nut butter works in hot chocolate recipes. Try cashew butter or almond butter to create different hot chocolate flavors. Sugar-Free Keto Option – Peanut butter is keto low-carb friendly. To make this recipe low-carb, use erythritol as a sweetener, almond milk, and sugar-free dark chocolate chips.

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