Chocolate Oat Milk

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You won’t believe how easy it is to make homemade chocolate oat milk. All you need are a few ingredients and a blender, and you’ll have this delicious chocolate oat milk recipe ready to enjoy! It’s quick, easy, and budget-friendly!

If you want to make fresh homemade chocolate oat milk, you only need a few ingredients to make it at home! I love how all you have to do is blend and strain, and you’ve got creamy and chocolatey oat milk ready to go!

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Why You’ll Love This Recipe

This chocolate oat milk is naturally lactose-free, gluten-free, and nut-free.
It’s creamy, smooth, and full of delicious oat and chocolate flavor.
It’s super easy to make! You just have to blend every up and strain it.
It’s more budget-friendly to make oat milk at home. Buying boxes of oat milk at the store can add up, whereas a large bag of rolled oats is much more economical!

Ingredients You’ll Need

Ingredients needed to make chocolate oat milk.

rolled oats — make sure you are using old-fashioned rolled oats. Instant oats and quick oats do not hold up as well, so you end up with a more slimy texture.
cocoa powder — you can use cocoa powder or cacao powder, whichever one you have on hand.
maple syrup — you can use maple syrup or honey to sweeten the chocolate oat milk. Make sure you use real maple syrup and not pancake syrup.
salt — just a pinch of salt helps enhance the flavors in the chocolate oat milk.
water — make sure to use cold filtered water. I prefer chilled water.

How to Make Chocolate Oat Milk at Home

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Add the rolled oats, maple syrup, cocoa powder, and salt to the blender.
Add the filtered water.

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Blend for 15 to 25 seconds. Avoid over blending or the oat milk will become slimy.
Strain the blended liquid through a cheesecloth or nut milk bag (I like putting a fine mesh strainer underneath for extra support).
Gently squeeze the cheesecloth to get the oat milk out. You can do this in two batches if needed.
Transfer to an airtight container to store in the fridge or serve immediately.

Recipe Tips and Notes

You can use just a fine mesh strainer, but I prefer using a cheesecloth to make sure nothing gets through.
Do not soak your oats beforehand. Soaking them will lead to slimy chocolate milk.
Avoid using warm or room-temperature water. Using cold or chilled water will keep your chocolate oat milk creamy and not slimy.
If you need this recipe to my gluten-free, use certified gluten-free rolled oats. While rolled oats are naturally gluten-free, the processing centers are not.
Due to not having any stabilizers, the chocolate milk will separate in the fridge. No biggie, just shake it to combine before enjoying.

Make Ahead Tips

Storage: store the oat milk in the fridge for up to 5 days in an airtight container. The airtight container to help keep the milk fresh.
Freezer: you can freeze it in ice cube trays and then serve it with oat milk to not dilute it!

Two glasses of chocolate oat milk and a bottle in the background.

How do I make creamier chocolate oat milk?

To make creamier oat milk, you can adjust your oats-to-water ratio. The less water you add to the blender, the creamier the oat milk becomes.

What if I don’t have a blender?

You can make homemade oat milk in a food processor as well! Again, don’t blend for more than 30 seconds or you’ll overprocess the oats and make the milk slimy.