Orange Hot Chocolate

Looking for a super yummy spin on a traditional drink? Try out this super easy to make orange hot chocolate. The combination of orange and chocolate flavors are the perfect compliments to each other with the tangy citrus flavor and the sweet creamy chocolate.

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• ☕ What is a Orange Hot Chocolate?
• 🥄 Equipment
• 📋 Ingredients
• 👩🏻‍🍳Instructions
• Recipe

☕ What is a Orange Hot Chocolate?

Orange hot chocolate is an easy citrus twist on this traditional drink. It’s an easy combination of cocoa powder, dark chocolate chips, granulated sugar, milk and orange juice. The resulting hot beverage is full of creamy chocolate flavor and a tangy citrus zing.

Chocolate and orange flavors are classic combination. They are often combined in different Sweet searches cookies, cakes, drinks and fruit dips.

Flavor twists on hot chocolates, like this one, or oftentimes super easy to make because all you have to do is add one additional ingredient to infuse that new flavor. Some other common flavor combinations include Butterfinger hot chocolate, biscoff hot chocolate and Oreo hot chocolate.

Here are just a few of the reasons why this recipe works so well:

• It’s cozy. The warmth of the drink combined with a citrus and chocolate it’s a perfect combination of cozy and comforting.
• Ready in 10 minutes. With only five ingredients, you can easily get this one ready in about 10 minutes. Simply add it all to a pot and heat it together.
• Great flavor combination. Orange and chocolate go together like peanut butter and jelly. The tangy citrus and sweet chocolate are the perfect combination.

When to Make This Drink:

Heat up this recipe at any of the following occasions:

• Winter holidays
• Chilly nights
• Celebrations
• Brunch

Variations:

Have fun checking out these flavor variations and ingredient modifications to make this perfect for you:

• Use dairy-free milk. You can make this a dairy-free drink by making it as a oat milk hot chocolate or other dairy-free alternative.
• Add a smidge of vanilla. Add a teaspoon of vanilla extract to get a little extra vanilla flavor melted in.
• Make it creamier. Use half the amount of milk and replace the other half with half and half or heavy cream for a thicker creamier drink.
• Different orange flavor. You can substitute the orange juice for a teaspoon of orange extract or an equal amount of orange simple syrup. Do note that it won’t have quite the same tangy orange flavor.
• Garnish it. Add some extra orange into this drink by garnishing it with a candied orange, slice of orange or some orange zest.
• Change the sweetness. You can adjust the sweetness by using more or less sugar. Additionally, you can use a different sweetener altogether such as maple syrup or coconut sugar.
• Cocoa powder or chocolate chips. You can make this drink with all cocoa powder or all chocolate chips instead of a little of both. Simply use a quarter cup of just one. Using chocolate chips will make a slightly richer thicker drink.

🥄 Equipment

• Mug
• Measuring Cup
• Saucepan
• Whisk

📋 Ingredients

• 1 cup Milk – We like to use 2% milk. However you can use any type of milk you prefer.
• ⅛ cup Dark chocolate – We like to use chocolate chips so we don’t have to shred anything up. But you can use a dark chocolate bar and chop it up.
• ⅛ cup Cocoa powder– We like to use dark chocolate cocoa powder so that it has a little bit of a stronger richer flavor.
• ⅛ cup Sugar
• 1 Tbs Orange Juice – fresh squeezed works great, but you can also use store-bought. Either way you want to make sure there’s no pulp in it.

👩🏻‍🍳Instructions

Step one

Get everything together for this recipe including orange juice, milk, granulated sugar, cocoa powder, chocolate chips, saucepan, whisk, measuring cups and mug.

Step two

Take one cup of milk and pour it into the saucepan.

Step three

Take ⅛ of a cup of dark chocolate chips and add them to the saucepan.

Step four

Take ⅛ of a cup of cocoa powder and add it to the saucepan.

Step Five

Take ⅛ of a cup of granulated sugar and add it to the saucepan.

Step Six

Take one tablespoon of fresh orange juice and add it to the saucepan.

Step Seven

Place your saucepan with the mixture in it on the stove top. Heat it at medium heat whisking frequently.

You’ll want to heat it for about 8 minutes. After 4 to 5 minutes, the chocolate chips have usually melted almost all the way. Continue to heat until everything is thoroughly melted and warmed through.

Remove it from the heat and pour your hot chocolate into your mug. If desired, top it with whipped cream, mini marshmallows and mini chocolate chips.

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