I love a warm cup of hot chocolate in the winter to warm me up!
If you need to make a batch of hot chocolate for a group of family or friends, you'll love this Instant Pot Hot Chocolate recipe. It's easy to make on the slow cooker function of your Instant Pot, or you can use your slow cooker.
You don't need a packet of hot chocolate mix, because this recipe is from scratch and made with a bar of dark chocolate, cocoa powder, milk, and sugar. Plus, you can add nutmeg and cinnamon for some extra flavor.
Turn the Instant Pot on via the slow cook button. Set the time to 2 hours and 30 minutes.
Chop the chocolate bar and place it into the instant pot.
Once it starts to melt stir quickly.
Pour in the milk. It will clump up but don't worry as the instant pot heats up this will melt and leave specks of chocolate throughout your hot cocoa.
Mix together ⅔ cups cocoa powder with a few tablespoons of water. Mix it till it becomes a liquid paste. If you need more water then add a little more. You don't want it a soup you want it to be a thick running paste like chocolate syrup.
Add this paste into the instant pot and stir well. Stir or whisk in the sugar. I suggest starting at 1 cup of sugar and tasting it. Just remember as it warms up the sugar will be sweeter. Add the sugar to your own taste buds.
Add cinnamon and nutmeg (optional) and stir well.
Place the lid on the pot with the valve open.
Stir every 30 minutes or so allowing the chocolate to mix in well. At about 2 hours the hot chocolate will be warm enough to serve.
The extra 30 minutes can be used if your instant pot needs extra time to warm (or to keep your hot chocolate warm).
Serve topped with whipped topping and cinnamon (optional).
Instant Pot Hot Chocolate Recipe
Easily create this hot chocolate recipe from scratch with either your Instant Pot or slow cooker, so that it stays hot and delicious and is perfect to share with your family and friends on a cold winter day.
Ingredients
- 1 bar of chocolate - 72% cocoa
- ⅔ cup cocoa powder
- 1 gallon of milk
- 1 ½ cups sugar; (more may be needed to achieve the sweetness you'd like)
- ½ teaspoon cinnamon (optional)
- small pinch of nutmeg (optional)
- water
- whipped topping
Instructions
- Turn the instant pot on via the slow cook button.
- Set time to 2 hours and 30 minutes.
- Chop the chocolate bar and place into the instant pot.
- Once it starts to melt stir quickly and pour in the milk. It will clump up but don't worry as the instant pot heats up this will melt and leave specks of chocolate throughout your hot cocoa.
- Mix together ⅔ cups cocoa powder with a few tablespoons of water. Mix it till it becomes a liquid paste. If you need more water then add a little more. You don't want it a soup you want it to be a thick running paste like chocolate syrup.
- Add this paste into the instant pot and stir well.
- Stir or whisk in the sugar. I suggest starting at 1 cup of sugar and tasting it. Just remember as it warms up the sugar will be sweeter. Add the sugar to your own taste buds.
- Add cinnamon and nutmeg (optional) and stir well.
- Place the lid on the pot with the valve open.
- Stir every 30 minutes or so allowing the chocolate to mix in well.
- At about 2 hours the hot chocolate will be warm enough to serve. The extra 30 minutes can be used if your instant pot needs extra time to warm (or to keep your hot chocolate warm).
- Serve topped with whipped topping and cinnamon (optional).
