Last Updated on January 19, 2025 by Leah Hall
This Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate Recipe is decadent and full of peanut butter flavor. This sweet sip can also be made boozy with peanut butter whiskey if you would like!
If you like a warm drink in the winter, we have you covered! This Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate recipe is a sweet treat perfect to warm up with. A hot chocolate recipe perfect for peanut butter lovers instead of just a warm cup of cocoa. Try our Boozy Hot Chocolate or Verte Chaud, too!
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Don’t get me wrong, I love plain hot chocolate too, but this thick hot chocolate is definitely better than hot cocoa mix.
Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate
This homemade hot chocolate is made on the stove top with whole milk, cocoa powder, creamy peanut butter, sea salt and sugar. So easy to make and easier to drink, we hope you try out this hot chocolate drink for the holiday season or all winter long.
Tips & Tricks
- Garnish – feel free to use whipped cream and chocolate shavings, sprinkles, peanut butter chips or chocolate chips. Marshmallows are also great!
- Glassware – mugs are always easiest for warm cocktails. And glass mugs are even classier, but use what you have!
- Milk – feel free to use whatever milk you prefer. We love whole milk, but heavy cream makes it even more decadent. But, use coconut milk, almond milk, etc. Use what you can drink.
- Boozy – more details in the recipe card below, but feel free to make this recipe boozy, too! Decrease the peanut butter to 1 teaspoon and add in 1.25 ounces peanut butter whiskey!
Cheers!
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Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate
A Peanut Butter Hot Chocolate is a must make, decadent treat! This warm recipe is great for sipping all winter long!
Ingredients
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 Tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 Tablespoon sugar
- 1 Tablespoon smooth peanut buteer
- pinch of salt
- Boozy option: only 1 Teaspoon peanut butter and 1.25 ounces peanut butter whiskey
Instructions
- Heat the ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat until steaming hot. If using peanut butter whiskey, leave out until ready to pour into mug.
- Stir ingredients together until sugar dissolved and cocoa is absorbed and heating. Continue until steaming and bubbles have formed near the saucepan edges.
- Take of of heat, add whiskey if desired. Pour into mug.
- Garnish as desired.
- Cheers!
Notes
Make it boozy by using only 1 teaspoon peanut butter and 1.25 ounces Skrewball Peanut Butter Whiskey or other peanut butter whiskey brand. Don't add the whiskey until you have made the hot chocolate and taken off of heat.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
1Serving Size:
9 ouncesAmount Per Serving: Calories: 1457Total Fat: 78.6gSaturated Fat: 27.4gCholesterol: 8mgSodium: 545mgCarbohydrates: 234.2gFiber: 65.5gSugar: 117.4gProtein: 64.5g
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