Slow Cooker Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate

TiffanyUpdated Jun 19, 2025, Published Dec 03, 2014

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Creamy, rich Slow Cooker Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate made easy right in the crock pot!

For more recipes to enjoy as you quench your thirst, try these! Homemade Eggnog, Whipped Milk: Three Ways, and Pumpkin Nog.

slow cooker salted caramel hot chocolate in a mug topped with whipped cream and caramel on a cutting board.

I have a hot chocolate problem. And by problem, I mean that I drink a lot of hot chocolate, often at inappropriate times. I’m working on it but, there’s a good chance that I’ll never fully recover from being a hot-choco-holic.

We can still be friends right? I mean, odds are that at least a few of you are closet hot-choco-holics too and we really need to stick together. For recovery purposes. We need a support system.

slow cooker salted caramel hot chocolate ingredients on a baking sheet.

A couple of years ago my husband (a seasoned cruise veteran) took me on my first-ever cruise experience. I had hot chocolate every. single. day. Doesn’t sound that weird right? Except that this wasn’t an Alaskan cruise or a trans-atlantic cruise in January. This was a Caribbean cruise in October.

Now you see what I mean by drinking hot chocolate at inappropriate times? It’s only half my fault though. The ship offered it! And it’s all-inclusive so I pretty much paid for hot chocolate, I might as well actually enjoy it if I paid for it.

top view of slow cooker salted caramel hot chocolate in a slow cooker with a serving spoon.

Plus you know that I also have an ice cream problem and the ship was serving hot chocolate about 17.3 feet away from the soft serve ice cream machine. GENIUS! I have my nightly gallon of ice cream, get all chilly, then hop on over and grab a cup of steaming hot chocolate to warm back up. But then it’s a bit toasty so I head back over to the soft serve machine….

You see where this is going.

slow cooker salted caramel hot chocolate in a mug on a wooden cutting board.

It’s been uncharacteristically warm around here lately, usually we have a foot of snow on the ground by now but we’ve only had one snow storm come through and the grass is as green as ever. Yesterday and today thought have cooled off quite a bit and I’ve pulled the space heater out of the closet.

You know what that means: hot chocolate time. (If you could only see the smile on my face right now…)

top view of slow cooker salted caramel hot chocolate in a mug topped with whipped cream and caramel with the title of the recipe written around the bottom part of the mug.

Have you tried making real hot chocolate in your slow cooker?? “Real” meaning made from actual chocolate instead of powder. Don’t get me wrong, I use powdered hot cocoa like it’s going out of style. But if you haven’t tried making real-from-actual-chocolate hot chocolate, you need to. Use your crock pot for no-fuss amazing hot chocolate. You just dump everything in there, let it do its cooking thing, and come back a couple of hours later for the best salted caramel hot chocolate of your life. Not into salted caramel? No worries, you can leave out the salt and enjoy creamy plain-caramel hot chocolate. Bonus: serve it straight from the slow cooker to keep it nice and hotttt.

slow cooker salted caramel hot chocolate in a mug with a spoon topped with whipped cream and caramel on a wooden cutting board with another spoon and a bowl of salt faded in the background.

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