The Best Hot Chocolate Mix, According to Food Editors

The Best Hot Chocolate Mix, According to Food Editors

HomeCooking Tips, RecipesThe Best Hot Chocolate Mix, According to Food Editors

The editors at Simply Recipes blind-tasted 13 brands of hot chocolate to choose our favorite from Trader Joe's and Swiss Miss to Starbucks and Nestlé.

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Hot chocolate toppings plate

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Snow day? Check! Cozy blanket? Check! Hot chocolate? Sure but what kind do you like? If you ask a room full of food editors the answer depends on which carton we stirred into our milk (or water) as kids. It turns out the best hot chocolate is the familiar and comforting.

The editors at Simply Recipes recently challenged our hot chocolate preferences with a blind tasting of popular brands like Swiss Miss Nesquik Trader Joe's and Nestlé. Could we pick our favorite from a ton of options and would it still be our favorite? Here's what we learned.