This homemade hot chocolate milk recipe can be heated for hot cocoa or you can drink it as cold chocolate milk!Homemade chocolate milk is so easy that you'll never need that chocolate syrup again! We added some extra fun to ours and made it Monster Milk, but you can (obviously) leave that part out if you don't want to have extra fun. You can also heat this up and it makes for a really creamy (and yummy) hot cocoa, too!
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Total Time5 minutesmins
Course: Drinks
Cuisine: American
Servings: 1serving
Calories: 294kcal
Author: LittleCooksReadingBooks.com
Ingredients
1Tablespoonunsweetened cocoa powder
1Tablespoonsugar
8ounceswhole milk
Large marshmallows(optional, if making Monster Milk)
Colored decorating sugarwe used yellow, (optional, if making Monster Milk)
Black decorating gel or black food marker(optional, if making Monster Milk)
Whipped creamoptional
Halloween colored sprinklesoptional
Instructions
In a jar or container with lid, add cocoa powder and sugar. Stir or shake to mix.
To the cocoa powder and sugar mixture, pour just enough milk into glass to cover mixture. Vigorously shake or stir mixture until all clumps have disappeared and you have a thick mixture.
Slowly add remaining milk, stirring or shaking until as you go until all milk has been added and is completely mixed, with no clumps remaining.
Serve immediately.
TO MAKE MONSTER MILK
Before adding ingredients to glass, dip rim of glass into water.
Place colored sugar in a saucer. Roll rim of wet glass in sugar until rim is covered. Set aside to dry.
Using the decorating gel, draw faces on the marshmallows. Set aside to dry. (The gel will still have a sticky texture, even after it sits.)
Follow the instructions above for making the homemade chocolate milk. Carefully pour into the prepared glass. Add "monster" marshmallows, face up. ENJOY!
If you are making this as homemade hot cocoa, heat the milk in a microwave-safe cup for 30 seconds to 1 minute. Then, top with monster marshmallows and/or whipped cream.
Notes
This recipe can easily be doubled or tripled for more servings.