18 hot cocoa products you need to try this year
- "Hot Cocoa" is the new food flavor you've probably seen everywhere this year.
- From hot cocoa M&M's to hot cocoa marshmallows, many of your favorite treats got the hot cocoa treatment this year.
- There's even hot cocoa flavored popcorn.
Peppermint is old news, pumpkin spice has been relegated to October, and gingerbread is a tad boring — the flavor on everyone's lips this year is "hot cocoa." Once only a type of drink, hot cocoa is all the rage this year when it comes to seasonal flavorings.
Everything from Hershey's Kisses to M&M's to cinnamon rolls can taste like a Swiss Miss packet now.
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The Dairy Queen Oreo Hot Cocoa Blizzard is like a frozen hot chocolate, but better.
If you swear by DQ's frozen hot chocolate, then you'll want to try their Oreo Hot Cocoa Blizzard. Oreos and cocoa fudge come together in one decadent dessert that we wish was available year-round.
M&M's Hot Cocoa Candies taste just like you're drinking hot cocoa.
If you're a fan of M&M's, you'll definitely want to try these hot cocoa flavored M&Ms. Made with milk chocolate and filled with a white chocolate, marshmallow flavored center, these treats were said by one Amazon user to be just "Like drinking hot cocoa."
Hershey's new hot cocoa-flavored kisses would be amazing on a peanut butter cookie.
Hershey's kisses come in a variety of flavors (mint truffles, candy cane mint, and mint chocolate with almond, to name a few), but their latest seasonal flavor is a milk chocolate kiss with a marshmallow creme filling. We suggest topping your traditional Hershey's kiss blossom cookies with one of these next time.
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