Tessa's Recipe Rundown
Taste: Just pure chocolate goodness, no weird sickeningly sweet or artificial flavors here.
Texture: So rich, thick, and fudgy it’s to die for.
Ease: If you can measure ingredients and stir, you can make this chocolate sauce because it’s just that easy.
Appearance: Absolutely positively delectable, I couldn’t resist anything drizzled with this liquid gold.
Pros: Quick, easy, and 1,000 times better than any store bought chocolate sauce. Plus it goes good on everything.
Cons: None! The stuff can even be made ahead of time!
Would I make this again? Absolutely, there’s an extra bottle sitting in my fridge ready to be enjoyed.
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Oh boy is this homemade chocolate sauce recipe good. I could chug an entire batch it’s so thick and fudgy and loaded with unadulterated chocolate flavor. It goes good with ANYTHING and instantly elevates any sweet treat into something glorious. Ice cream, warm brownies, pastries, waffles, bread pudding, crepes, even as a dipping sauce for fruit, cookies, or my personal favorite, churros. The sauce is perfection on its own, but you could totally add a flavored liqueur such as Grand Marnier, Frangelico, or Chambord for an extra boost of flavor.
I love to use my Weck jars or an airtight glass bottle to store the chocolate sauce.
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Ingredients
- 1/2 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup light corn syrup
- 1/4 cup half-and-half or evaporated milk
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, stir together the sugar, cocoa powder, corn syrup and half-and-half. Set over medium heat and cook until mixture comes to a boil, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 3 minutes. Remove sauce from heat and add butter and vanilla, stirring until the butter melts. Cool to warm or room temperature before using or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 week. The chocolate sauce can be reheated in the microwave.
Hi, half-and-half and evaporated milk is not easily found where I come from. Is there anything else I can substitute it with or can half and half be made at home? If so pls let me know how. Thanks.
This chocolate sauce is A.M.A.Z.I.N.G! It reminds me of the chocolate sauce on a Dairy Queen sundae! It won’t be lasting a week in my fridge I can tell you that 🙂 thanks for sharing!!
Haha!! So glad you like it, Daphne 🙂
This is a receipt i have been looking for. Can you explain what is half – and half?
Half and half is a dairy product that consists of half cream half milk.
Ohhh, this looks so decedent and delicious! Now I’m wishing I had a big bowl of ice cream so I could have an excuse to eat a bunch of this! Or I co just use a spoon! I recently discovered your blog and I’m so excited to meet a fellow AZ food blogger! I’m down in Tucson 🙂 I’m guessing I will be ice cream season real soon!
Oh, I love me some good chocolate sauce! Especially if it’s homemade, which I think is always better than store-bought. This looks decadent!
Love the fudgy-ness of the chocolate sauce! Yum!
Can this sauce and the caramel sauce be used for coating apples. for caramel apples?
does it harden?
Thank you
Oooooh this fudgey, chocolate sauce looks delish and I love the fact that you can store it in the fridge. Definitely going to give this a go. Thank you for posting such a scrumptious recipe. Sammie http://www.feastingisfun.com
Oh wow Tessa! This sauce looks delicious, so rich and fudgy!
As soon as it warms up 60 more degrees, I’m going to make this!
I can only imagine how good this must be. I stopped buying what’s in the store to steer clear of HFCS and of course homemade is so much better! What a treat for the kids since it doesn’t happen very often.
Perfect pictures.
Happy Wednesday!
Sub for half and half???