Hot Fudge Sauce

Submitted by Jan in Lanark

"I'm giving this recipe up because I love this site so much. It's been in my family for three generations and I've never tried one I liked better. It gets very thick on cold ice cream."

 

• Ready In: 15mins
• Ingredients: 7
• Serves: 4

ingredients

• 1⁄4 cup butter
• 1 1⁄2 unsweetened chocolate squares, shaved or broken up
• 1⁄4 cup cocoa
• 3⁄4 cup sugar
• 1⁄4 cup table cream
• 1⁄8 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

directions

1. Melt the butter and chocolate over low heat in a heavy saucepan, stirring until smooth.
2. Stir in cocoa, sugar, cream and salt and then bring slowly to boil. My mom always said do not stir, but to dissolve the sugar I've found using a whisk works fine.
3. Remove from heat and blend in vanilla.
4. Serve warm.
5. May be reheated very slowly.

Reviews

[Lennie]

I wanted a quick sauce so I could whip up some hot fudge sundaes, so decided to give this recipe a try. The only alteration I made was to use some bittersweet Lindt chocolate I had on hand, instead of the unsweetened baker's square called for in this recipe. I love the taste, but the texture, I found, really suffered from not being cooked enough. I followed the recipe and it just wasn't enough to dissolve the sugar--the sauce was very gritty. I fixed it by pouring the sauce into a large Pyrex measuring cup and microwaving it on low for a few minutes, whisking often. Once the sugar has dissolved and the sauce had a satiny texture, it was absolutely delicious and made for wonderful sundaes; I will make a double batch next time. I do recommend, though, that when preparing this sauce, it be tasted before removing from the heat to ensure that it's smooth and that the sugar has completely dissolved. Thanks for posting this!

 

[children from A to Z]

I made this last night for dessert to go with brownies and vanilla ice cream, this was easy and I knew what was in it (no processed ingredients). This also tasted great. Thanks for sharing this recipe I will be using this again for sure!

 

[Sweetcheeks Schulz]

YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY!!! this was super quick and easy to make. I didn't have unsweetened chocolate so I used semi sweet and whole milk. Turned out great thank you!

 

[livie]

I just made a double recipe of this and it's amazing! I of coarse did not look in my cupboards before making it, so did not have enough cocoa. In a panic I used 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips cause that's what I had. It turned out perfect and was not too crazy sweet! I only used 1 tsp. vanilla because of using the milk chocolate. So happy I made this great recipe old fashioned ice cream parlor hot fudge sauce, thanks for posting!

 

[Busters friend]

Tripled (yes, tripled LOL) beautifully - this stuff is THE BOMB! OMG, made a BIG BATCH 'cause company's coming next weekend & we may have to make more! Goes GREAT with our banana ice cream & wet walnuts, vanilla ice cream, cherry ice cream, pretzel sticks... Delicious! BTW, used Ghirardelli bittersweet chips instead of unsweetened chocolate (what I had on hand) & Hersey's Special Dark cocoa & it is MIND BLOWINGLY delish! Clean Plate Club, THANK YOU for posting this super keeper! Deserves more than 5 stars!