This All Natural Hot Chocolate Will Blow You Away!

If you've been following me for a while, you'll know that I love chocolate. Remember my post a while back about raw chocolate?

Well - things just got real.

Now that the winter months are upon us - at least here in Calgary - I've been craving all sorts of warm, delicious (yet healthy) treats. Once I discovered this decadent hot chocolate, I knew I'd hit the jackpot. The best part is that all of the ingredients are REAL! That's usually enough for me right there, but it's also super easy to make, and so deliciously creamy and delicious.

All you'll need to make this are a few simple ingredients that you may already have, and a blender! I used my vitamix, but any high speed blender would work.

All Natural Hot Chocolate

serves 2

Ingredients

3 cups hot water
6 dates, pitted
1/4 cup raw cashews
2 tbsp raw cacao powder (see notes)
1/4 tsp cinnamon
pinch of cayenne (optional)

Directions

Combine ingredients into high speed blender, mix on high for 30-40 seconds.
Serve warm in your best mugs and enjoy with someone special.

Notes

If you don't have raw cacao powder on hand, I highly recommend you head out to the closest natural foods store and get some. It's unbelievably high in antioxidants, and is the purest form of chocolate - what all the candy bar chocolate originally came from. If this is not an option for you, for whatever reason, regular cocoa powder that you would use to bake with would work just fine.