Those little packets of hot chocolate are mostly sugar, powdered milk, and flavoring. They warm you up and then drop you flat an hour later. There is a better way, and it is older than any packet.
Real hot cacao is just raw organic cacao, a natural sweetener, and your milk of choice. Cacao is one of the richest whole-food sources of antioxidants and magnesium on the planet, and magnesium is the mineral most of us run low on, the one that helps you relax and sleep. A warm cup in the evening is not a guilty treat. It is your body getting something it was actually looking for.
One tip: warm it gently and do not let it boil. Keeping the heat low protects more of the nutrients that make raw cacao worth drinking in the first place.
How to use it day to day: Make it your evening wind-down instead of a late snack. Blend it cold with ice for a chocolate shake in summer. Stir a spoon of cacao into your morning coffee for a mocha without the syrup. For a real energy and hormone boost, add half a teaspoon of our gelatinized organic maca, it blends right in.
Real Hot Cacao (serves 2)
Ingredients:
- 2 cups organic unsweetened almond or coconut milk
- 2 tbsp raw organic cacao powder
- 1 to 2 tbsp pure organic maple syrup, to taste (or 1 pitted organic Medjool date, blended in)
- 1/2 tsp pure organic vanilla extract
- a pinch of unrefined sea salt
- optional: 1/2 tsp organic gelatinized maca, a dash of organic cinnamon
Steps:
- Warm the milk in a small pot on low heat. Do not boil it.
- Whisk in the cacao powder until fully smooth. For a frothy, cafe-style cup, blend it for a few seconds instead.
- Stir in the maple syrup, vanilla, and sea salt. Add the maca and cinnamon if you are using them.
- Taste, adjust the sweetness, and pour.
Warm, rich, and real. Nothing artificial, nothing your body has to fight.
Make the hot chocolate your body actually wants. Get our raw organic cacao powder at www.PureNaturalMiracles.com.