Coconut Butter Hot Chocolate (vegan recipe) | The First Mess (2024)

Coconut butter hot chocolate is a rich and cozy treat. Totally vegan, super creamy, naturally sweetened, and rich in good, healthy fats.

It’s been nothing buy grey and rain here, and I feel like I’ve been shivering for 3 days straight. Perfect timing for a banger of a hot chocolate recipe. My method is a little strange on the surface, but it yields an incredible end result. I like hot cocoa and cocoa/cacao powder-based drinks, but sometimes you need the richness that only actual chocolate can bring.

Basically I ask you to blend all the ingredients, including non-melted chocolate, in the blender before heating. You hear clicks and pulses coming from the blender as it chops through the chocolate and coconut butter chunks. Once the chocolate is visibly integrated throughout as little flecks, you heat the mixture up. Those flecks and coconut butter bits slowly melt away dreamily into the milk as you whisk. Coconut butter and dates make this almost caramel-y. Hope you love it!

This interview with Justin Vernon about the years that went into the latest album creation and the weirdness of fame is great.

Sometimes, if I’ve been on a long streak of photo editing or just general computer use, I start to get that weird double/blurry vision, and know that I need to step back into the real world for a bit. Lauren spells out so many great tips to protect your eyes from excessive screen exposure.

I’ve never trusted a recipe labelled as “best” because I know that it’s all for clicks. The utter deluge of “ultimate” versions ofall kinds of recipes has rendered the terms meaningless for me–even from a source that I trust!

On cooking with MSG at home. It’s weird to me that MSG is still taboo given the feverish obsession with umami in food media. Also, a choice quote: “Chinese-American restaurateurs were unfairly maligned for a Japanese invention widely present in American foods.”

Even more on that umami thing: everything you’ve ever wanted to know about traditional soy sauce, its origins, and classification. Kind of makes me want to seek out some premium, more traditionally produced brands.

The “Life Skill” series on Rookie Mag’s site is the perfect mix of fun and wise, and this breakdown of the Minor Life Emergency Kit (modelled on a bride’s survival kit) follows suit: “…a kit for a person who has no interest in marriage but is very interested in spilling taco sauce on any and all new shirts.”

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