Best Hot Chocolate Drinking Powders in Australia

There’s nothing more soothing than a lovely hot chocolate snuggled up on the sofa. I’m not a fan of serving it in glasses, but a nice mug. I rarely add marshmallows as I prefer to focus on the chocolate flavour. When making a good hot chocolate at home, you might want to try some of these drinking powders:

Byron Bay Coffee Company sells gourmet drinking chocolate in a range of flavours, including dark mint, chilli cinnamon, and original. https://byronbaycoffeeco.com.au/

Fraus stocks European styles of hot chocolate in a large range of flavours: caramel, chilli, classic, coconut, dark, Gianduia, hazelnut, mint, raspberry, vanilla and white. https://fraus.com.au/

Grounded Pleasures are a family-owned business from Victoria. The range of drinking chocolate are mostly in white boxes. Look out for the original, orange, chilli-infused, French mint, noir (dark) and cinnamon spice and vanilla bean. They also stock organic panela sugar and exquisite marshmallows. https://www.groundedpleasures.com.au/

Heirloom stock a range of chocolate shavings in 70% Dark, Dairy Milk and White Chocolate. You can buy these in soft plastic recyclable bags or collectible white tins. The cacao butter is blended with rapadura cane sugar. It has a slight fruit flavour with low bitterness. The dairy milk and white chocolate contain dairy milk powder and Madagascan vanilla beans to result in a creamy hot chocolate. https://heirloomchocolate.com.au/

Loving Earth makes an organic cacao powder which is from Satipo in the Peruvian Amazon. It’s jam-packed with antioxidants and available in a range of different sizes. https://lovingearth.net/

Mork Chocolate specializes in hot chocolate powders and a simply indulgent. I usually order the original dark 70% chocolate, but I’m keen to try the Australian natives blend with Australian herbs and spices. There is also a Junior dark 50% which has a toffee-like sweetness of unrefined coconut sugar. You might like the dark milk and salt 65% with a pinch of river salt, or the even darker 85% which has dark notes of raisins, earthy spices and sweet almonds. This Melbourne brand is serious about the traceability of cocoa beans. https://www.morkchocolate.com.au/

Nib + Noble create drinking chocolates using only organic and fair-trade ingredients. This family business stocks 40% cacao, chai organic drinking chocolate, sugar-free, original and chilli. These products are dairy-free and gluten-free. The online shop also has raw cacao powder, handmade tumblers and organic granola. https://www.nibandnoble.com/

TTotalertea stocks a beautiful tea hot chocolate gift box. Each box contains a selection of eight delicious vegan, refined sugar-free and no added nasties tea chocolate latte blends. These can be used to make either hot chocolate or iced tea chocolate latte at home. Each gift box contains French Earl Grey tea chocolate, berry velvet, chocolate orange, mint chocolate, billy bush chocolate, smoked tea chocolate, chai chocolate, matcha chocolate and a recipe card. You can add Persian Fairy Floss, a brass strainer or both to the box. https://www.ttotalertea.com/

If you’re overseas, you might be tempted by these brands:

Godiva, America: https://www.godiva.com/coffee-and-hot-chocolate

Whittard, England – All Hot Chocolate: https://www.whittard.co.uk/hot-chocolate/discover-hot-chocolate/all-hot-chocolate