The Best Hot Chocolate Recipes for the Holidays

Clockwise: Snickerdoodle Hot Chocolate, Creme Brulee Hot Chocolate, S’mores Hot Chocolate, Slow Cooker Peppermint Mocha Snuggler

Every Christmas Eve, my mom throws her annual hot chocolate party. Family and friends bring over their favorite holiday dessert to eat and share while they sip on hot chocolate. Calories don’t count, and everyone’s sweet tooth is allowed to really indulge. Does this sound like your kind of party or what?

My Pinterest feed is just brimming with yummy desserts and hot chocolate recipes to make these holidays bright. In the spirit of my mom’s party coming up, I took some time to pin a ton of hot chocolate recipes that are just asking to be made. Some of these can even be made in a crockpot – how cool.

Whether you say no-no to changes to your traditional cocoa, or if you want to shake things up with this bright blue Disney’s Frozen themed hot chocolate (side note: how have I still NOT seen Frozen!?), there’s one on this list for you to try this holiday season:

1. Best Ever Creamy Crockpot Cocoa
2. Disney’s Frozen White Hot Chocolate
3. Slow Cooker Peppermint Mocha Snugglers
4. Polar Express Hot Chocolate 
5. Spiked Red Velvet Hot Chocolate [this one has WINE]
6. Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate
7. Crock Pot Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate
8. S’mores Hot Chocolate
9. Slow Cooker Pumpkin White Hot Chocolate
10. Copycat Starbucks Peppermint White Hot Chocolate
11. Candy Bar Hot Chocolate [Almond Joy, Reeses, and Twix]
12. Homemade White Hot Chocolate
13. S’Mores Frozen Hot Chocolate
14. Crockpot Caramel White Hot Chocolate Recipe
15. Red Velvet Hot Chocolate [with Cream Cheese Whipped Cream]
16. Gingerbread Hot Chocolate
17. Crockpot Chai Spice White Hot Chocolate
18. Snickerdoodle Hot Cocoa
19. Strawberry White Hot Chocolate 
20. Creme Brulee White Hot Chocolate
21. Nutella Hot Chocolate

Surrounding every great hot chocolate is a mug to keep it nice and toasty. Shop my mug picks below by scrolling through and clicking on each one: