Vegan hot chocolate

miscellaneous | hot chocolate

Makes one smallish cup/mug (not one of those bucket-sized ones!)

After visiting Pemberton's chocolate factory where my family live in Wales, I had visions of simply melting some chocolate and adding a bit of rice milk, and all would be well. How wrong could someone be! That didn't quite work out, but this is a very simple and quick non-dairy hot chocolate which is beautiful when you're cold and can't get warm - or it's a dark wintery night outside.

Wheat free, dairy free, nut free, meat free version...

Ingredients...

7 fl oz (200ml) rice milk
2 tsp cocoa powder (I use the Green and Black's)
3 tsp brown sugar (I use an organic soft brown sugar, but if you don't have brown, try white. However, you may find you need a little less, so start with 2 tsp and add more to taste).

Optional:

Tip tsp cayenne

Method...

Put all the ingredients in a saucepan and heat gently to the point of simmering.

Maybe serve with...

A lovely freshly made toasted oat slice

If you have rice milk leftover, see the rice pudding, the banana smoothie and the vanilla sauce. If you have cocoa leftover, see the truffles and Maggie B's chocolate cake.

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