Struggling to find vegan milk chocolate? You're not alone. We've traveled from New York to LA, always on the look out for most delicious dairy-free vegan milk chocolate bars. Whether you're vegan, lactose intolerant, or just chocolate-obsessed, this list of dairy-free vegan milk chocolates is your ultimate guide to indulgence.
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As longtime vegans and chocolate lovers, we've tasted dozens of vegan chocolate bars over the years. And trust us we've had our share of gritty, chalky bad chocolate. So we'll definitely be giving you our honest opinions on flavor, texture and taste because we know how hard it can be to find good vegan chocolate. But thanks to the popularity of plant-based eating, truly delicious dairy-free milk chocolate bars are now more accessible than ever before.
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Why Can’t Vegans Eat Milk Chocolate?
Vegans can’t eat traditional milk chocolate because it contains dairy. Specifically milk and/or milk-derived ingredients like:
- Milk & Milk powder
- Whey
- Casein
- Lactose
Make sure you come back often. Our ever-growing list showcases the best dairy-free milk chocolate bars made with creamy plant-based ingredients like oat, almond, and coconut milk. We update this list often to bring you our newest vegan milk chocolate finds.
Tried one of these? Let us know your favorite vegan chocolate in the comments below!
Best Vegan Milk Chocolate Brands
Milkless - Chocolate Bar
A Hershey’s style milk chocolate bar without the dairy.
Why We Like It: Taste like that classic chocolate bar you grew up with.
Taste & Texture: Smooth, sweet and simple.
Ingredients: vegan cane sugar, cocoa butter, unsweetened chocolate, rice syrup powder, sunflower lecithin (an emulsifier), salt, natural vanilla, natural flavor.
Price & Where To Buy: Price $2.95 on their www.nowheychocolate.com
Taza Chocolate - Almond Milk
A smooth and creamy chocolate bar that blends cacao with almond milk and coconut sugar for a rich, semi sweet bite.
Why We Like It: The texture is great and its made in the USA with direct trade cacao.
Taste & Texture: The taste is a hybrid between dark & milk chocolate not overly sweet.
Ingredients: Organic coconut sugar, organic cocoa butter, organic cacao beans, organic blanched almond flour, organic cashews, organic sunflower lecithin and sea salt.
Price & Where To Buy: $4.99 available on Taza website and natural grocery stores
Hershey’s Oat Made
Run don’t walk. Hershey’s finally brings a vegan version of there classic milk chocolate bar. These bars taste just like what you remember. Hershey’s originally did a limited test release in June 2022 at Target stores but they are now available everywhere.
Why We Like It: Love that it’s so easy for us to find at all the major grocery store chains, its affordable and most importantly its so tasty.
Taste & Texture: It’s creamy and sweet; surprisingly like the classic bar.
Ingredients: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Almonds, Oat Flour, Rice Flour, Contains 2% or less of: Lecithin (Soy), Sunflower Oil, Sea Salt, Natural Flavor.
Price & Where To Buy: Price $2.49 at major grocery stores and big box stores like Wal-mart and Target.
Reese’s Plant Based Peanut Butter Cups
We can’t believe we are finally enjoying these. A plant-based version of the iconic peanut butter cup.
Why We Like It: Who doesn't love peanut butter and chocolate everything together.
Taste & Texture: In full transparency they don’t taste exactly like we remember the cups as kids but still very delicious. The cups are peanut buttery and sweet.
Ingredients: Sugar, Peanuts, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Oat Flour, Rice Flour, Dextrose, Contains 2% or less of: Sea Salt, Lecithin (Soy), Natural Flavor, Rosemary Extract.
Price & Where To Buy: Price $2.19
Trader Joe's Oat Chocolate Bars
Mini oat milk chocolate bars from Trader Joe’s Oat perfect for a small dessert bite.
Taste & Texture: The taste and texture are great. Not to sweet and smooth. You get three individually wrapped mini bars, stacked in a single box.
Ingredients: Cane Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Ground Oats, Cocoa Mass, Rice Syrup, Sunflower Lecithin (Emulsifier) and Natural Vanilla Flavor.
Price & Where To Buy: Price $1.99
Lindt Classic Recipe - Oatmilk Non-Dairy
Why We Like It: Creamy and sweet with no strong oat aftertaste. These bars are very easy to find.
Taste & Texture: This bar is a smooth, sweet and creamy treat. The taste is very reminiscent of a traditional milk chocolate bar. You really don't taste any hints of the oat milk.
Two varieties: OatMilk Salted Caramel & Plain OatMilk
Ingredients: Sugar, oat milk powder (oat milk, maltodextrin), cocoa butter, almond paste, chocolate, soy lecithin (emulsifier), natural flavors. *gluten-free oats. Manufactured on equipment that processes products that contain milk and other tree nuts.
Price & Where To Buy: $6.29. We picked up our bars from our local Publix grocery store but they are also available online at Lindt.com with free shipping right now.
Endangered Species Chocolate Oat Milk Brands
A satisfying alternative to dairy milk chocolate.
Why We Like It: Rich without bitterness.
Three varieties: Oat Milk Sea Salt & Almonds Dark Chocolate, Oat Milk & Dark Chocolate, Oat Milk Rice Crisps & Dark Chocolate
Taste & Texture: Traditionally dark chocolate contains anywhere from 50% to 90% cocoa solids, cocoa butter and sugar. Milk chocolate contains anywhere from 10-50%. These bars clock in at 55% cocoa solids the perfect marriage between the two. Not to sweet and not to bitter.
Ingredients: Chocolate liquor, cane sugar, cocoa butter, whole grains oats, soy lecithin, vanilla.
Price & Where To Buy: $2.83, avaiable at Whole Foods and online.
Lindt Oatmilk Chocolate Truffles
Lindt now offers its indulgent truffles in two vegan varieties - Dark Chocolate and Regular Oat Chocolate.
Why We Like It: Their signature smooth and decadent flavor, just vegan.
Taste & Texture: Really creamy with a smooth interior chocolate that has a light sweetness with a melts in your mouth texture.
Two varieties: OatMilk & Dark Oatmilk
Ingredients - Sugar, vegetable oil (coconut, palm kernel) chocolate, almond butter, oat extract powder*, rice extract powder, soy lecithin (emulsifier), natural and artificial flavors. *from gluten free oats
Price & Where To Buy: Price $5.99 on their website, major grocery stores and online.
Otherly
A UK brand offering a good variety of creamy oatmilk chocolate flavors.
Why We Like It: We always love companies that have creative seasonal flavors.
Taste: Otherly, has a creamy light sweetness, more of a dark chocolate rather than milk chocolate taste.
Varieties: Oatmilk, Sea Salt, Cold Brew, Salted Caramel, Gingerbread
Is a UK based chocolatier that uses oatmilk for its chocolate creations.
Ingredients: Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Gluten-free Oat Powder, Cocoa Mass, Dried Rice Powder, Emulsifier (Sunflower Lecithin), Natural Vanilla Flavor. Cocoa Solids: 43% Minimum.
Price & Where To Buy: Price $5.99 we purchased this UK brand at Besties Vegan Grocery store in Los Angeles. You can also buy through their website.
Happi Oat Milk Chocolate
Why We Like It: We like the variety of flavors they offer, the gingerbread and salted caramel are so good.
Taste & Texture: happi has a buttery smooth taste. Like traditional milk chocolate just vegan.
Varieties: Plain Milk Chocolate, Salted Caramel, Orange, Cacao Nibs Crunch, White Raspberry, White Chocolate, Candy Cane and Gingerbread
Ingredients: Colombian couverture chocolate (100%) (cocoa mass, sugar, oat powder, cocoa butter, dried rice powder, emulsifier: sunflower lecithin; vanilla extract). Cocoa Solids 46.5% minimum.
Price & Where To Buy: Price $2.49 we purchased ours at Besties LA. You can purchase from their website.
VGAN Chocolate Milk Chocolate
Bold flavors, these vegan chocolate bars contain three types of nuts: almonds, hazelnuts and cashews so definitely NOT for anyone with nut allergies.
Why We Like It: It feels like if Nutella & Cadbury Fruit and Nut bar had a baby.
Taste & Texture: Its rich and creamy.
Varieties: Salty Almonds, Pink Raspberry & Almonds, Almonds & Salty Caramel, Dark Chocolate , Matcha & Lemon, Chocolate With Coffee Beans , Grapefruit & Chia and Hazelnuts, Guarana & Ginger.
Ingredients: Organic cane sugar, organic cacao mass, organic cacao butter, organic coconut cream, organic coconut sugar, organic coconut milk powder, organic sunflower lecithin, organic vanilla extract.
Price & Where To Buy: Price $5.28 on their website, we got our's from the Essex Market in New York City.
Brooklyn Born Chocolate
Small batch New York made vegan chocolate bars in classic and nutty varieties.
Why We Like It: We love the simple ingredients list and a rich flavor reminiscent of Hershey's chocolate bar.
Taste & Texture: Lightly sweet with a touch of salt.
Varieties: Paleo Vegan Milk Chocolate Bar, Plain, Quinoa Crisp and Salted Hazelnut flavors.
Ingredients: Organic cacao butter, organic coconut sugar, organic almond, organic cashew, organic pea protein, organic cacao liquor, and sea salt
Price & Where To Buy: Price $5.99 at Essex Market in New York City.
Enjoy Life Rice Milk Crunch
This is a vegan version of a Nestle Crunch bar, so good.
Why We Like It: Nice when you just want something sweet and with a crunch.
Taste & Texture: Not to sweet and nice chocolate favor.
Ingredients: Cane sugar, Cocoa butter, Unsweetened chocolate, Rice crisps (Rice flour, Cane sugar, Sea salt) Dried Rice Syrup, Salt.
Price & Where To Buy: $2.49 at Whole Foods.
Trader Joe’s Almond Beverage Chocolate Bar
A creamy, smooth organic almond milk chocolate bar from Trader Joe’s to the rescue again.
Why We Like It: Trader Joe's delivers with this chocolate bar made from simple ingredients. Each bar comes in a resealable bar for easy portioning.
Taste & Texture: Mild and silky with a pleasant sweetness and creamy mouthfeel.
Ingredients: organic cocoa butter, organic cane sugar, organic cocoa beans, organic almond beverage (organic almond flour, water), organic sunflower lecithin, sea salt, and organic ground vanilla beans.
Price & Where To Buy: Price $2.99 at Trader Joe's
Honorable Mentions
- KitKat
This gets an honorable mention because if you're anything like us you been planning an entire trip to the UK for this bit of nostalgia.
But good news you can now buy this bar; however, for a pricey shipping fee delivered from Canada. Bad news unlike our favorite childhood KitKat it's actually made from what taste more like dark chocolate than milk chocolate. Probably why we haven’t gotten a US version yet.
Price & Where to Buy: $2.99 at www.vegan supply.com
Where To Buy Vegan Milk Chocolate
From online to brink and mortar we recommend these store for there selection of vegan chocolate:
- Besties Vegan Paradise
- Thrive Market
- Vegan Supply in Canada but great selection
- Sprouts Farmers Market
As always ingredients and manufacturing processes can change without warning. Always make a habit of carefully reading labels every time to ensure you avoid any potential allergens. Although thevgnway.com attempts to provide accurate nutritional information, this list should be considered a guide.
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Monica Lindsay
Definitely been missing milk chocolate since going vegan in January. Thank you for creating this list.