Frozen Hot Chocolate Recipe

Summer Holidays are officially here & we are HAPPY about it!!! :) This morning I told the girls that I wanted to make a special treat with them today at snack time and right away they started guessing. One of their first guesses was hot chocolate! It's funny because they will often ask for it, even when it's hot out. So, when that guess came up, I said, "Nope! It's too hot out for that! But we're going to make FROZEN hot chocolate!" and that prompted some wide-eyed faces!

I am SO glad that we decided to give this a try because my goodness, it was good!!! I have seen a few variations of this around the internet and after reading a few different recipes, I made a few little changes and combinations from different recipes and here's what we came up with:

Here's What You'll Need:

Ingredients

1/2 cup Milk chocolate (we used milk chocolate chips)
1/2 cup Nutella (this doesn't taste strongly of hazelnut- my husband didn't even realize I had added it!)
5 tbsp Hot Chocolate Mix
1 & 1/2 cups Milk
5 cups Ice
Gay Lea Real Whipped Cream


Instructions

1. Start by melting the chocolate chips. I just did this on a very low setting, in a saucepan.

2. Add the Nutella, melt. (it'll look like the picture on the left, below)

3. Add the Hot Chocolate mix, melt. (it'll look like the picture in the middle, below)

4. Add the milk and stir until there are no hot chocolate mix clumps left. (like the picture on the right, below)

5. Put some of the ice in your blender and start to blend (if you have a super powerful blender, you may not need this step, but we do with ours).  Add some of the chocolate mix to it (be sure that it's not hot or it'll melt your ice!) and blend some more.

6. I added a bit more ice and a bit more liquid, working on blending the ice as I went, until it was all combined.

7. Pour into a glass, top with Gay Lea Real Whipped Cream (which I love because it's made with REAL cream), and garnish with chocolate chips...

8. ... and enjoy!!
(this made 5.5 cups, which was enough for 5 or 6 servings for us!)

This will not be the last time we make this recipe- it was a big hit!  I was actually surprised by how delicious it was!



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