Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate
13 Comments Nov 19, 2022
Updated Dec 05, 2025
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This Slow Cooker Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate is a delicious party drink you and your guests will love. It has all the chocolate as regular hot chocolate but with added pumpkin spice flavoring for a fall treat.
A few years ago, I published a recipe for Pumpkin Spice Lattes for a crowd; it’s been my most popular winter and fall recipe for four years!
If you love hot chocolate, try this pumpkin spice hot chocolate variation when the fall weather hits. It’s a significant change that your guests will love and make for a cozy night.
Key Ingredients
- Whole Milk: Makes for a creamy pumpkin hot chocolate recipe.
- Chocolate Chips and Cocoa Powder: A combination of milk chocolate chips and unsweetened cocoa powder will give this pumpkin cocoa a very chocolaty flavor.
- Spices: You can use pumpkin pie spice or a combination of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and ginger to get that great pumpkin flavor.
- Vanilla Extract: Adds a touch of vanilla flavor to the hot chocolate.
- White Sugar: Sugar is used instead of sweetened condensed milk that most hot chocolate recipes call for.
How to make Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate
Step One – Add the whole milk, pumpkin pie spice, vanilla, chocolate chips, and cocoa powder to the crockpot. Stir.
Step Two – Cover and cook on HIGH for 2.5 hours. Stirring occasionally.
How to serve:
- Serve this pumpkin spice hot chocolate with pumpkin mugs or fall-style mugs. If you are making this for Halloween trick-or-treaters, have some travel cups available.
- Have mini marshmallows or large marshmallows available with your hot chocolate bar.
- Top with homemade whipped cream, or even try pumpkin spice whipped cream.
Recipe FAQs
This is a full pot of hot chocolate; I suggest making this at the party location and not trying to travel with it.
Use three bags of white chocolate chips instead of the milk chocolate chips, and skip the cocoa powder.
No, for this recipe, you want to skip adding canned pumpkin puree, which will add a strange texture to the hot cocoa.
To reheat leftover pumpkin hot chocolate, reheat single servings in the microwave. Or reheat a larger batch on the stovetop.
Yes, though if you use dark chocolate chips or semi-sweet chocolate, you may want to add more sugar, for it will be less sweet.
Yes, but skip the sugar in the recipe.
What other drink can be made in a slow cooker
Candy Cane Hot Chocolate, Slow Cooker Hot Chocolate, and Slow Cooker White Hot Chocolate each offer a different take on warm, cozy cocoa.
Christmas Coffee and Hot Buttered Rum Coffee are great options when you want something rich and comforting.
Hot White Russians add an easy adults-only drink for holiday gatherings.
Pumpkin Spice Hot Chocolate Recipe
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Ingredients
- 24 oz. milk chocolate chips
- ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- ¼ cup sugar
- 2 Tbsp. vanilla extract
- 1 Tbsp. pumpkin pie spice
- 1 gallon whole milk
Instructions
- Add everything to the slow cooker, stir.
- Cover and cook on HIGH for 2.5 hours. Stirring occasionally.
- Serve topped with whipped cream or marshmallows.
Nutrition
Nutrition info is auto-generated. This information is an estimate; if you are on a special diet, please use your own calculations.
I have a bunch of dark chocolate. Can I use it instead?
Yes, you may need to add more sugar though.
This looks amazing! I’m allergic to milk though. Also allergic to almonds…so no almond milk. Is there a way to make this without milk? Could you use coconut milk?
Try Oatmilk! It’s a new favorite at our house and I bet would give this a yummy flavor.
Can I double the recipe? If I can do I double cooking time?
Where did you get your pumpkin mugs?
Pottery barn
If I do this recipe in the stove, how much time do you think is going to take? And at what temperature? Thanks in advance
Probably just a few minutes, heat it slow like you would a soup.
This looks so good! I can’t wait to drink hot chocolate every night!
-Kyra
Can I substitute the milk for soy or almond milk?
I dont know how i will make it if it takes 2.5 hours to cook i mean at a party location
You could do it on the stove top?