My kiddos love hot cocoa/hot chocolate. I’ve been buying it for the Keurig which is nice and easy but gets expensive after a while. My husband told me that he loved the hot chocolate mix his mother made when he was a child. He said she made it in bulk so they always had it around. That’s all I needed to hear. I asked her for her recipe and she sent it right over.

That’s a lot of cocoa mix!
I told you it made a lot!

Guess who made a trip to the wholesale store?
Alright. I know. The recipe doesn’t use cocoa by itself. It uses Nesquik. I’m using the recipe as it was given to me. 😉
Instant Cocoa Mix Bulk Recipe
Joy - JoysLife.com
Ingredients
- 1 pound box (powdered) instant chocolate flavoring such as Nestle Nesquik
- 8 quart box of instant dry milk 13 ½ cups
- 5 oz (powdered) non dairy creamer like Coffee Mate
- 1 cup confectioners sugar, sifted
Instructions
- Combine thoroughly and store in a tightly covered large container.
- To use: Mix ¾ cup hot water with 1/3 mix.
Mix ingredients, combine thoroughly and store in a tightly covered large container.
To use: Mix ¾ cup hot water with 1/3 mix.

I do not have man hands! LOL! This is my husband.
I added all of the ingredients and began stirring the mix. Super Husband offered to shake it up instead. I took these photos as my sons and I stood by laughing and waiting for the Glad Press n’ Seal wrap to give way and cover my dear husband like a snowman. We waited. He shook the container…and shook it…and we watched and waited hoping it would break for a good laugh…hoping it would not break for good hot cocoa. Guess what?

For daily use, pour some into a smaller container.
Yeah. The Glad Press & Seal wrap didn’t break. No instant snowman dad for us. Sad. Well, we still had hot chocolate to drink! YAY!

One scoop + hot water = yum.
I highly suggest putting some of the mix into a smaller container for daily use. That keeps the big container from being knocked off, contaminated by winter illness and from being in the way.

What? I can still use my Keurig? SWEET!
Add 3/4 cup of hot water and then 1/3 cup of the mix and stir. One of the first things we did was figure out what setting we could use on our Keurig to make this even faster. I have the Keurig Platinum B70 and we found that putting it on the second cup choice was the perfect amount of water for this drink. YAY!

Awwww….sweet!
I’m a huge fan of dark chocolate. That’s definitely NOT what this tastes like. I’d say…to me…this has a sort of a white chocolate flavor to it. It’s a milder hot cocoa/hot chocolate drink. I’m so glad I made this. It brought back such fond memories for my husband and making this as a family created new ones for us all.
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