Mix of a batch of this low carb chocolate milk powder and you’ll love how easy it is to get a refreshing chocolaty drink!
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I’ve never been able to give up my sweet tooth in all my years of low carbing. When I was pregnant I craved chocolate milk – well at least I *think* I it was a pregnancy craving, but it may just have been a reaction to stopping low carbing, and that was the first thing that I wanted a LOT of. Yes, even before bread, pasta, and candy!
I don’t often make chocolate milk because it is so difficult from a low carb point of view. But it occurred to me that if I made up a big batch of it, I might be way more likely to drink some. My recipe for the powder is simple: just two ingredients!
Add ½ cup of xylitol and ¼ cup of unsweetened cocoa powder to a small screw-top jar. Then shake the jar until fully mixed and it is ready to go!
Mix 2 teaspoons of the powder with 1 cup of unsweetened vanilla almond milk. 2 teaspoons of this chocolate milk mix contains 4.2g net carbs – and of course that’s from using xylitol – if you prefer a lower carb sweetener you could reduce this even further. A cup of the almond milk doesn’t contain any carbs – so this makes for a pretty low carb drink!
Two ways to make it: Shake it up or blend it. To shake, add everything to a cup or bottle with a lid, shake until mixed. To blend, add ingredients to a cup and use a stick immersion blender to mix it together. This is my favorite method!
As you can see I made a cute label for my chocolate mix jar – just to make sure no-one else in my house got their hands on it!
Ingredients
- ½ cup xylitol
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
Instructions
- Add both ingredients to a screw-top jar and shake to mix.
- Store until required.
Recipe Notes
1g net carb per serving of two teaspoons of powder (not including sugar alcohols from the sweetener).
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Yum! I’m go see if I can fool my kids with this. It tastes great to me. Thank you!
You’re welcome Andrea!
Do you know if it would it be the same amount of Truvia? That’s the only sweetener I use and actually like. Thanks!
Yes I’m sure it would work fine. I think Truvia contains fewer carbs than Swerve, too – but check that before you make it!
Thanks! It is absolutely delicious! My boyfriend doesn’t like the vanilla almond milk, so I have unsweetened original and it’s absolutely delicious with this mix. 🙂 Truvia has 0 net carbs and is the closest thing to regular sugar to me, I love it!
Another thing you could add to make it even better is non dairy powder creamer. My mom mentioned that the other day. I would have never thought of it! I haven’t tried it with the creamer yet though.
Fantastic!
I had pyure organic stevia would that work or the swerve both kinds the confectiors and grandulated one and I have stevia also. So would it be the same for them?trisa
Xylitol is equal sweetness in volume to sugar, so granulated Swerve would be a great alternative!
thanks
I’ve been making a similar mixture using sucralose instead of xylitol, but it froths up big-time when I shake it up with milk to mix it — rather unpleasant. Is that also a problem with the xylitol version? And/or does anyone know of some benign anti-frothing agent that might be added to the mix?
You can see from my photos that there is a little froth from using the immersion blender – but not a crazy amount! No idea about an anti-frothing agent I’m afraid!