Hot Chili-Chocolate

Servings: 2 Prep: 5 mins Cook: 5 min Total: 10 min

Who doesn’t love a hot chocolate? It’s cold outside, perhaps a bit drizzly. It might snow. Feeling a bit groggy? A Hot Chocolate would bring us back to a bright place!

Wait! What’s that? This one has chilies in it? What?!

I wanted to do something a little different than a standard hot chocolate. First, this recipe is in complete and total respect to the origin of the word “Chocolate”. It pays home to the Latin origin, while being simple to make and modernized enough for it to translate like a hot comforting cup of cocoa, but with a faint titillating tickle near the back your throat.

The word “chocolate” comes from the Aztec word “xocolātl”. Xocolātl (meaning “bitter water”) was an ancient beverage of cocoa beans, maize, various spices, honey and chili! This was a special drink, reserved for warriors and nobles. It’s generally believed that this wasn’t a sweet concoction and that sugar and cream was added by the Europeans, many years later.

Give it a shot! You won’t be sorry!

Hot Chili-Chocolate
Ingredient
Calories
Fat
Protein
Carbs
SA’s
Fiber
Net Carbs
1 cup (240g) unsweetened almond milk
45
3.5
2
3
0
1
2
3/4 cup (178.5g) cream, heavy whipping
615.8
66
3.8
5.3
0
0
5.3
1 tsp (4g) vanilla extract
11.5
0
0
0.5
0
0
0.5
1/4 cup (50g) ‘Swerve’ or other sugar replacement
0
0
0
50
50
0
0
3 tbsp (16.13g) unsweetened cocoa powder
36.8
3.4
23.2
9.4
0
5.5
3.9
1/2 tsp (1g) cinnamon, ground
2.5
0
0
0.8
0
0.5
0.3
1/2 tsp (2g) ancho pepper, new mexico chili or cayenne, powdered
5.6
0.2
0.2
1
0
0.4
0.6
1 dash (1g) salt
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
1 shot (28g) espresso (optional)
5
0
0
0
0
0
0
Grand Totals (of 2 servings):
722.1
73.1
29.2
70
50
7.4
12.5
Totals Per Serving:
361.1
36.5
14.6
35
25
3.7
6.3 g
62.4%
Fat
11.1%
Protein
26.5%
Carbs

Hot Chili-Chocolate

Hot Chili-Chocolate

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Prep Time: 5 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 10 minutes
Servings: 2 Servings
Author: DJ Foodie

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Place your almond milk, cream and vanilla on the stove and slowly bring it up to a very low simmer.
  • While the milk is heating, combine all your dry ingredients and blend them together.
  • Once the milk is hot, quickly whisk in the dry ingredients until they are well blended, the sugar equivalent has dissolved and a nice foam has formed.
  • Pour the liquid into two mugs and optionally top with whipped cream and some cocoa powder!
  • To make it a hot chili-mocha, you could add a shot of espresso!

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8 thoughts on “Hot Chili-Chocolate”

  1. this sounds to die for!!!! And, wonder of wonders….I have all the ingredients!!! 😀 Thanks for this, I will be making it after dinner (chilli and cauli rice) and will use ancho (duh) and maybe a dash of cayenne <3

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  2. I just tried this and it was excellent with a bit of Irish Whiskey. I did replace a bit of the almond milk with heavy cream too. Very rich. Thank you so much for all your wonderful recipes.

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  3. Hi – do you know that if you use ORGANIC heavy whipping cream there is ZERO carbs in it?  No fillers .. just yummy cream!  ðŸ™‚ 
    —Reply posted by DJ on 6/3/2016
    Hi Paula, organic products don’t really have a significant macronutrient difference from their “standard” (sadly) counterparts. All cream is roughly 1/2 net carb per tablespoon (as far as I know). I hope this helps. Sorry for the delay! 😀

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