Really Good Easy Chocolate Sauce
Created by CookinTO on January 13, 2015
- Servings: 6
- Prep Time: 5m
- Cook Time: 12m
- Recipe #16708
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk (or half and half)
- 1 1/3 to 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
How to Make
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Step 1: Mix together sugar, cocoa powder and salt in a saucepan. Slowly stir milk or half and half in until all cocoa lumps are gone. Turn on low heat and cook the mixture until it comes to a hard boil, stirring occasionally. After it reaches a hard boil, start timing. Boil for 10 minutes. (For a thicker sauce, cook an additional 2-3 minutes). Turn off heat.
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Step 2: Leave the saucepan on the burner and mix in the butter in the butter, this will take a minute or two.
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Step 3: Stir in the vanilla extract. Beat with a whisk 2 or 3 minutes. (Seems to make the sauce creamier).
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Step 4: Sauce can be served hot, at room temperature or chilled in the refrigerator.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (123.1 g)
- Calories 294.7
- Total Fat - 10.7 g
- Saturated Fat - 6.6 g
- Cholesterol - 27.1 mg
- Sodium - 327.6 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 51.5 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.4 g
- Sugars - 47.4 g
- Protein - 3.5 g
- Calcium - 82.5 mg
- Iron - 1 mg
- Vitamin C - 0 mg
- Thiamin - 0 mg