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10 Hot Chocolate Recipes That Put the Store Brand Stuff to Shame

These nutella, vegan and spiked hot chocolate recipes aren't the hot cocoa your grandma used to make

by Amanda Montell | COMMENT

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When we think of hot chocolate, we picture our eight-year-old selves in footie pajamas, crowded around a microwave, waiting for that sacred ding telling us to snatch our Swiss Miss and load it up with marshmallows. Oh, childhood. All it took was a little hot chocolate mix and some milk to make our entire night.

But we're not eight-year-olds anymore, and store brand hot chocolate isn't quite enough to satisfy our grown-up taste buds. Luckily, there exists a whole, exciting new world of hot chocolate recipes reserved strictly for us adults.

Now that we no longer believe in Santa's naughty list, we can up our cocoa game with one of these decadent homemade hot chocolate recipes. We're talking Nutella hot chocolate, Mexican hot chocolate, spiked hot chocolate and other fancy, fun (and totally Instagram-worthy) adaptations of the Swiss Miss our moms used to make us. The best part is that these creative hot chocolate recipes require only a smidge more time and effort than the microwave varieties. (As in, the time and effort it takes to turn on a stove and open a bottle of whiskey.)

Seem doable? Treat yourself this holiday season with one of these 10 classy hot chocolate recipe ideas.

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