GFCF Hot & Steamy Chocolate Silk

After a particularly cold jaunt to the great outdoors with my never-affected-by-the-freezing-temperatures four-year-old, I was able to persuade him to come in with the promise of getting to assist me with making hot cocoa from scratch.

Never in a million years did I think our attempt at throwing a few ingredients together would result in something so yummy, but the end product was a drink so rich and creamy smooth, it was like drinking chocolate silk. If hot cocoa can possibly be thought of as sexy, this stuff was Robert Redford, Denzel Washington, George Clooney, and Brad Pitt (or whomever floats your boat) all wrapped into a cup of hot and steamy relief from a half-hour spent out in bone-chilling windy tundra-like temperatures. Okay, I'm exaggerating, as usual, but in my defense, it is February. In Indiana. And I am done with winter.

So to cut to it, the following is what we concocted:

4-5 ounces filtered water
4-5 ounces coconut milk (not coconut oil or coconut cream)
2 tablespoons Sun Crystals (or sugar or sweetener of your choice to taste)
3 heaping teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder
1/2 - 1 teaspoon gluten-free vanilla
dash of salt

Mix the water and coconut milk together in a mug and microwave until desired temp. Mix sweetener of choice, cocoa powder, and salt together in separate small bowl. Mix both mixtures together and stir in vanilla. Stir until all the cocoa powder mixture is blended well into the liquid.

Enjoy!