This Best Ever Hot Cocoa is a slow cooker recipe! That right there makes it perfect. It’s creamy and delicious and perfect for a cozy night.


This post is a triple win.
1. It’s a slow cooker recipe.
2. It’s chocolate.
3. It’s a giveaway.
Win.Win.Win.
I love that it has recipes for every season. There’s Warming Winter Dishes, Simply Speedy Springtime, Slow & Easy Summer, and Hearty Harvest Favorites. There are more than 225 slow cooker recipes and time saving tips.
I chose to make Best Ever Hot Cocoa for you all. It is pretty sweet so next time I will use less sweetened condensed milk. It tastes just delicious, anyway.
{Slow Cooker} Best Ever Hot Cocoa
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Author: Mandy Bird
Serves: 10
Ingredients
- 1½ C. whipping (heavy) cream
- 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
- 2 C. milk chocolate chips
- 6 C. milk
- 1 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions
- Combine all ingredients in a slow cooker.
- Cover and cook on low for 2 hours, stirring occasionally.
- Ladle into mugs; serve warm.
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Getting up so early on a Saturday does have it's perks, like being the first to comment/enter Mandy's giveaway! ;)<br />My favorite slow cooker recipe is for Phili Cheesteak Casserole!!!
I have too many favorites to pick just one, but I do love the hot cocoa. So warm and yummy and a chilly Northwestern morning.
Thanks for hosting this great giveaway & your hot cocoa looks delicious! It's going to 76 degrees here in So Cal today so I don't need it now, but I'll pin this post for a colder day!<br /><br />
Cranberry BBQ chicken– a can of cranberry sauce, a cup of bbq sauce, and some chicken breasts!
I love slow cooker recipes, and this hot chocolate looks to die for–thanks for the chance to win!<br /><br />I love throwing chicken breasts in with a jar of salsa…a few hours later–shredded chicken for tacos! So easy!
I like to make pot roast in my slow cooker, Works well & leaves the stove top &/or oven for other things. <br />Nadine Osborne
heather says: i love chicken, potatos and vegis in my cooker<br />hg temp addy at hot mail dot com
I got a slow cooker for Christmas–looking for new and vegetarian dishes!
Hmmmm. I think my current favorite is this recipe for beef vegetable soup. http://www.gimmesomeoven.com/steak-soup-vegetable-beef-soup/<br />I love Pinterest – and I see some answers I'd love to have recipes for. :D<br />Anyway! Thank you for your generous giveaway! 🙂 BLESSINGS!
Yum, that hot cocoa looks delish. I'm going to try it.<br /><br />My favorite recipe that I make in my slow cooker is a butternut squash soup that takes 8 hous to cook. It's well worth the wait!
My fave slow cooker meal is cream cheese chicken chili!
Creamy Italian Chicken! It's delicious!
Def BBQ pulled pork! Yum!
Chili!<br /><br />Robin mommy0004@aol.com
I love making soup in my crockpot. My favorite soup to make is Chicken Tortilla in the crockpot. Thanks for the chance to enter.<br /><br />Andrea D.<br />short74717@msn.com
Love using my crockpot~~the Hot Cocoa recipe is pefect for this weather!
I love fixing pork chops, apples, onions and sweet taters in apple juice in the slow cooker…MMMM!
I love peach cobbler in the slow cooker!
I love doing a big pork roast in my crockpot, and using the leftovers for pulled pork sammies.
Loaded Potato Soup
My favorite slow cooker recipe is spaghetti and meatballs.<br /><br />roxannewv@yahoo.com
This would be great for a day of yard work!!!!!
Country ribs.
Soup is my go-to crockpot meal. I would love to try some new ideas, though.
Great photo Mandy! The hot chocolate looks & sounds delicious!<br />~Amber @ Dessert Now, Dinner Later!<br />dessertnowdinnerlater.blogspot.com
Um, this? LOL, probably chicken and salsa!
I just served this at a ladies' luncheon this past Saturday! I got many positive comments and requests for the recipe. The original recipe was too rich for me, so I upped the amount of milk to 8 cups.
Shredded pork sandwiches and potato soup
Shredded tacos are a huge hit at our house after cooking all day in the slow cooker.
Yum! The cookbook looks awesome!<br /><br />Already your follower hopping by, blogging @ <a href="http://thequietmom.com/blog/why" rel="nofollow">Why?</a>
I love making pulled pork in my slow cooker!
HMMM…I usually make hot chocolate on the stove, but it needs tending. i am going to have to try it this way.
LOVE to cook chicken breasts in my slow-cooker to use in other recipes… but this hot cocoa…YUM.. and I love Gooseberry Patch cookbooks!!! I'm IN! Thanks! <br />dianayhall@yahoo.com
Awesome recipe! Awesome book…I'll have to pick one of those up myself.
I like to make spaghetti sauce in the slow cooker, but hot chocolate sounds GREAT!! Thanks for sharing on Two Cup Tuesday at <a href="http://pintsizedbaker.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">Pint Sized Baker</a>.
My favorite slow cooker meal is pulled pork sandwiches or spaghetti sauce and meatballs 🙂
Hot Chocolate could not be better this time of year… love it! Pinned 🙂 I hope you'll come and share at my Super Saturday Show & Tell! http://www.whatscookingwithruthie.com xoxo~Ruthie
Love the idea of doing hot chocolate in the crock pot. I am hosting a Valentine hot chocolate bar this week and will have to give it a try!<br /> I'd love for you to come over and join my Finding the Pretty & Delicious Linky Party.<br />http://www.yourhomebasedmom.com/finding-the-pretty-delicious-linky-party-2/
So smart to do this in the slow cooker! Thanks for linking it up with us this week!
Woot! You have been featured this week at Recipe Sharing Monday! The new link party is up and I'd love to see you back. Have a great week. 🙂
This looks awesome and I love that its a slow cooker recipe!
Sounds and look delicious!<br />Thanks for sharing over at Finding the Pretty & Delicious Linky Party. Hope you'll join in again on Saturday.
Fabulous idea! I’d love to have this cooking away on the counter on a cold afternoon!
This needs to happen on Christmas day in our house! We love hot cocoa!
I’m hosting a Christmas cookie swap later this month, and this slow cooker hot cocoa will be perfect to make for my guests!
I love drinks in the slow cooker and this recipe sounds delicious!
Dear Mandy, what a delightful way to prepare hot cocoa. This would be fun to make for the holidays. xo, Catherine