Hot Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream or Cake
From krumkake 17 years ago
- 10 minutes to make
- Serves 12
For an extra-special treat, make your own hot chocolate sauce and serve it warm over a dish of ice cream, or a slice of chocolate, angel-food or pound cake, topped with some real whipped cream…your friends and family will love you for it. Read more This recipe dates back to 1974, and came from my mother, who always served it over a big bowl of vanilla ice cream, topped with whipped cream and salted peanuts – fantastic! It is so simple and tastes so divine, you’ll wonder why you’ve been buying bottled ice cream sauce all these years… See less
Ingredients
- 1 cup sugar shopping list
- 5 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa (you can use the Special Dark if you want a darker chocolate sauce) shopping list
- 1 heaping tablespoon all-purpose white flour shopping list
- 1 cup boiling water shopping list
- 1 tablespoon butter shopping list
- 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract shopping list
How to make it
- In a medium saucepan, stir together sugar, cocoa and flour.
- Pour boiling water over this mixture and bring it to a gentle boil over medium heat, being careful not to scorch the bottom of the pan.
- Boil sauce for 7 minutes.
- Remove pan from heat and add butter and extract; whisk the sauce well to incorporate the butter and extract into the sauce.
- Place a piece of waxed paper (not a tight lid) loosely over the pan and allow sauce to cool a bit before pouring it over ice cream or cake.
- Store cooled leftovers in a sealed container in the refrigerator.
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