Hot Chocolate! The Best Gifts for Hot Chocolate and Hot Cocoa Lovers, including gift baskets, mugs, marshmallows, hot chocolate and more.

The Best GIFTS FOR HOT CHOCOLATE & HOT COCOA LOVERS

Good morning friends! It is a cold day here, the perfect day for a steaming cup of hot chocolate. Actually, who am I kidding, everyday is a great day for hot chocolate. Today I’m sharing a few gifts that the hot chocolate lover in your life would love. They can also be used in a gift basket or as stocking stuffers.

HOT CHOCOLATE & HOT COCOA

Did you know there is a difference between hot chocolate and hot cocoa? Put simply hot chocolate is shaved chocolate mixed with milk or cream creating a melted chocolate bar in a cup. Hot cocoa is cocoa powder mixed with sugar or other sweetener and milk. Both are delicious but hot chocolate is much more rich.

If you have a hot chocolate or hot cocoa lover in your house you cannot go wrong with gifting them all things hot chocolate or hot cocoa related.

The Best Hot Chocolate for Gifts And Stocking Stuffers

• Williams Sonoma has a delicious selection of hot chocolate, they offer classic, caramel, peppermint and double dark.
• Tcho is an excellent hot chocolate it you like a fruity, rich dark chocolate. Another of my favorites is Maine made, woman owned, Bixby.
• Dolfin drinking chocolate from Belgium it is my all time favorite but it is hard to find in the US. I have been known to take an extra suitcase to Paris and fill it with Dolfin.
• There are many other chocolate companies that make hot chocolate or drinking chocolate, Frans, Christopher Elbow, Jacques Torres, Vosges, Chocolat Vitale. Experiment with a few different kinds and pick your favorite.

The Best Hot Cocoa for Gifts and Gift Baskets

• If you are a hot cocoa fan there are so many options, including Whittard .
• Godiva,
• L’Anciene from France, and many others.
• Caputos market has many great options from all over the world.

 If you don’t feel like buying hot cocoa, you can make your own hot cocoa mix to give to friends and family. It is an easy and delicious homemade gift.

Hot Chocolate Mugs

The perfect mug is subjective to the user. I have ones that I use in the winter or around the holidays with whimsical sayings or snowmen or from my travels and others that I like to use in the summer(yes I drink hot chocolate year round).

Like coffee and tea drinkers I change mugs to suit my mood.

Isn’t this mug from Emma Bridgwater cute?

Williams Sonoma, Anthropologie and Pottery Barn have a few that would be perfect including the perfect plaid mugs for everyone in the family.

A vintage cup and saucer is a beautiful option as well.

MARSHMALLOWS

Marshmallows and whipped cream are the perfect topping for hot chocolate and cocoa.

You can buy marshmallows at the grocery store or at and various other specialty shops or you can make them.

Homemade marshmallows are so easy to make and they are scrumptious. You can find the recipe that I use in this post.

Hot Chocolate Gift Basket

A gift basket is unique, easy to make and a great option for the “hard to buy for” people in your life. They are also great for people who really do not want or need anything but you want them to have something special.

How to Make a Hot Chocolate/Cocoa Themed Basket

• Choose a theme
• Get a basket, bucket, tray, cookie tin or a bag
• Purchase or make items to fit the theme, cookies, candy, etc
• Cellophane
• Ribbon, twine, bows
• Then nestle the items in the basket, wrap with cellophane, tie on a bow and voila, a fabulous gift.

Where to Purchase Hot Chocolate Gift Baskets

I purchased the hot cocoa, the pot, the cups, mug and napkins at TJmaxx and Marshalls but you can find the same sorts of things on Amazon, at your local grocery store,  Walgreens or anywhere else that you shop. Then grab a basket add the mug, hot chocolate, cookies, decorative napkins, etc and wrap with cellophane. Add a bow and a card or gift tags and you have an easy and beautiful hot chocolate gift basket.

What Gift Goes Well With Hot Chocolate?

Here are some gifts that go well with hot chocolate and hot cocoa.

•  Hot cocoa or Hot Chocolate
•  Small cocoa pot,
• Mugs
• Disposable cups
• Decorative holiday napkins
• Homemade cookies in a cellophane bag.
• Gingerbread Cookies
• Marshmallows, purchased or homemade.
• Candy Canes
• Chocolate Spoons
• If you want to make your basket extra special include homemade treats as well, for this one I made sugar cookies and homemade marshmallows.

How to Make A DIY Hot Chocolate Gift

A DIY hot chocolate gift is perfect for teachers, friends, co-workers or even your neighbors and easy to make.

I would include a beautiful mug, hot chocolate, homemade cookies and if you have time homemade marshmallows.Homemade marshmallows are so easy to make and they are scrumptious. You can find the recipe that I use in this post.

Simply place the mug, hot chocolate, marshmallows, and cookies in a decorative bag, or wrap them in cellophane, add a ribbon and a tag and you have a great DIY hot chocolate gift.

Do you like hot chocolate or hot cocoa? Do you make your own? What is your favorite recipe?

Are you making any gift baskets this year?

Do you have any special themes or things that you like to put into them that we should know about?

For more hot chocolate fun why not make a hot cocoa and hot chocolate board?

UNTIL TOMORROW

I hope that you enjoyed my hot chocolate lovers gift ideas. There is something for everyone. Take care and thank you for spending part of your day with me.

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