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December 23, 2018 · 5 Comments

Vegan Hot White Chocolate

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1 Is Starbuck’s White Hot Chocolate Vegan?
2 Can This Be Made Oil-Free?
3 What is White Chocolate?
4 Is White Chocolate Vegan?
5 What Can I Use in Place of the Vanilla Bean?
6 First You Make the Plant Based Milk
7 Then Strain It Into the Rest of The Ingredients
8 You’ll see a mine field of cacao oil all over the top of your beautiful homemade milk.
9 Put That Whisk to Work!
10 Then It Starts to Emulsify
11 It’s Ready When the Color Is More White Than Yellow
12 More Recipes to Try
13 Vegan Hot White Chocolate
13.1 Ingredients 1x2x3x
13.1.1 For the milk
13.1.2 After the milk is made
13.2 Instructions
13.3 Video
13.4 Nutrition
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This vegan hot white chocolate is thick, rich, and pretty much unforgettable. 

It has simple flavors, but the vanilla is important so don’t forget it.

Is Starbuck’s White Hot Chocolate Vegan?

It is not and most white chocolate syrups have dairy in them too. So, usually, the only vegan choice is to make it yourself!

Can This Be Made Oil-Free?

I have to tell you the truth, this is the opposite of fat-free. I’d try this regular cocoa instead or maybe try my vegan warm horchata or Instant Pot chai concentrate instead.

If you are on a fat-free eating plan try leaving out the cacao butter, but add extra vanilla and some cacao powder to make an oil-free hot chocolate.

Vegan Hot White Chocolate | Healthy Slow Cooking

What is White Chocolate?

It uses a base of cacao butter from the cacao bean.

A bar of white chocolate has sugar and vanilla and most commercial white chocolate does use milk.

Is White Chocolate Vegan?

It’s hard to find good dairy-free white chocolate, but you can find a vegan white chocolate recipe here.

There are a few brands that are called white chocolate that doesn’t have cacao butter. To me, that’s not really white chocolate at all.

Vegan Hot White Chocolate | Healthy Slow Cooking

What started this whole thing is the cacao butter that I found at Whole Foods. I had been looking for some for a while and they never had it. But there it was on the shelf calling my name.

I also decided to make some homemade milk and scrape some of the vanilla beans I’ve been saving. I think vegan hot white chocolate qualifies as a special occasion!

Tip: Put the rest of the vanilla bean into a container with sugar to make vanilla sugar. Never let any part of a vanilla bean go to waste!

What Can I Use in Place of the Vanilla Bean?

I created this recipe when vanilla was a little cheaper than it is now.

Feel free to use vanilla extract, unless you have a vanilla bean hidden away like I usually do.

Vegan Hot White Chocolate | Healthy Slow Cooking

This is the fine mesh strainer I use. If you use a nut milk bag resist the temptation to squeeze every last bit of liquid out.

When you are using oats a little restraint is needed so the mixture doesn’t get that slimy texture.

Vegan Hot White Chocolate | Healthy Slow Cooking

First You Make the Plant Based Milk

You should have about this much pulp after you strain your homemade milk.

Doesn’t the milk in the pan above look luscious?

Vegan Hot White Chocolate | Healthy Slow Cooking

Then Strain It Into the Rest of The Ingredients

You can see in the photo above that the cacao butter is just starting to melt a little.

The lumps are not completely melted yet, but the yellow spots are melted cacao butter.

Vegan Hot White Chocolate | Healthy Slow Cooking

You’ll see a mine field of cacao oil all over the top of your beautiful homemade milk.

Do not panic! This is what it should be doing right now. Full disclosure, I totally panicked when I saw this on the first batch I made.

I also found out that whisking is surprisingly calming.
Vegan Hot White Chocolate | Healthy Slow Cooking

Put That Whisk to Work!

And do a little zen breathing if you’re still stressed. Between the heat, the oats in the milk, and whisking, the oil will start to incorporate into your hot white chocolate.

Vegan Hot White Chocolate | Healthy Slow Cooking

Then It Starts to Emulsify

Before you know it, it will start to look like something you want to drink. Don’t underestimate the power of the whisk.

Vegan Hot White Chocolate | Healthy Slow Cooking

It’s Ready When the Color Is More White Than Yellow

Taste, and add more sweetener or vanilla if you think it needs a little more. Now ladle out into 2 small mugs.

Try it with some coffee one morning for a vegan hot white mocha.

What coffeehouse drink do you miss since you’ve gone vegan?

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vegan white hot chocolate

Vegan Hot White Chocolate

Kathy Hester
This drink is thick, rich and pretty much unforgettable. It does have simple flavors so the vanilla is important to zing it up. You can add coffee to make a vegan white mocha. This is the opposite of fat-free, but if you are on a fat-free eating plan try adding extra vanilla and maybe some cacao or cocoa powder to make an oil-free hot chocolate.
4.8 from 5 votes
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Prep Time 8 hrs
Total Time 8 hrs
Course Drinks
Cuisine American
Servings 2 servings
Calories 404 kcal

Ingredients
  

For the milk

  • 2 cups water
  • 2 tablespoons raw cashews
  • 2 tablespoons raw almonds
  • 1 tablespoons oats Steel-cut, Scottish or Rolled will work
  • 4 dates ,optional

After the milk is made

  • 4 tablespoons cacao butter chopped
  • 1/2 vanilla bean split or 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • sweetener of choice ,to taste if not using dates

Instructions
 

  • Soak the milk ingredients (the water, cashews, almonds, oats and dates) at least 8 hours. I like to toss everything in my Vitamix before I leave the house for work.
  • After it’s soaked, blend well. Put a fine mesh strainer over a saucepan and strain the milk mixture to remove the sediment.
  • Please note that you should have pulp left over. You can use this in a baked good or your morning bowl of oatmeal.
  • Add the cacao butter, vanilla (either scraped or extract) to the saucepan. If you didn’t use dates earlier, now is the time to add your sweetener.
  • I used 2 tablespoons sugar in one batch, dates in another and monk fruit in the last. They all worked well and you will be able to add more later if it’s not sweet enough for you.
  • Heat over medium heat whisking all the time. First the cocoa butter will melt and cover the top of the mixture like an oil slick. Don’t panic – this is supposed to happen.
  • Keep whisking and the oil will incorporate and the oats in the milk will begin to thicken ever so slightly.
  • It’s a fine line between making it just right and cooking it too long until it looks like gravy. It is tasty gravy, so if that happens just whisk in some nondairy milk you have hiding in the fridge.
  • I like to take it off the heat as soon as the oil droplets disappear (this takes between 5 to 10 minutes), but still whisking a minute more. If it doesn’t thicken up enough put it back on the heat for another minute or so.
  • I’ve made this thick like a liquid truffle or French hot chocolate and I like it that way. It will continue to thicken, so err on the side of thinness.

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Nutrition

Calories: 404kcalCarbohydrates: 17gProtein: 4gFat: 35gSaturated Fat: 17gSodium: 14mgPotassium: 228mgFiber: 2gSugar: 9gCalcium: 39mgIron: 1.3mg
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  1. Jessica says

    March 6, 2015 at 1:46 pm

    This is brilliant! Looks delicious. I’ll have to try and track down some cocoa butter and give it a shot!

    Reply
    • Kathy Hester says

      March 6, 2015 at 2:05 pm

      I am in love with your blog name!

      Reply
  2. anna says

    March 10, 2015 at 8:51 pm

    i’m confused— where are the cashews, almonds and oats in this recipe? the recipe instructions don’t seem to incorporate some of the ingredients.

    Reply
    • Kathy Hester says

      March 10, 2015 at 11:02 pm

      I clarified this more in the ingredient list and instructions, but the water, cashews, almonds, oats and dates are what you soak to make the milk in the first step.

      Let me know if you have any other questions.

      Reply
      • Margot says

        February 5, 2016 at 6:52 am

        You should discard the soaking water, an important step. Use fresh water to blend nut milk.

        Reply

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