Chocolate Sauce (A La the Joy of Cooking)

This is a super easy sauce that I whipped up tonight on the suggestion of a friend who brought over ice cream and cookies. It's easy to mod, but I'll tell you how I made it. Serving size depends on how you use it.

• Ready In: 12 mins
• Serves: 6-8
• Yields: 1 cup

Ingredients

• 1  tablespoon butter
• 1⁄4 cup heavy cream
• 1⁄4 cup 2% low-fat milk
• 1 -2  tablespoon turbinado sugar
• 4  ounces  semisweet chocolate, chopped (I used chips, but that's not ideal because of the emulsifiers...worked fine though)
• 1  teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions

1. place butter, cream, milk and sugar in a pan over medium high heat.
2. stir constantly.
3. allow to come to rolling boil and take off heat.
4. add chocolate and allow to sit for about a minute - to melt.
5. stir until integrated.
6. add vanilla extract, stir.
7. serve over ice cream, dip cookies in it, eat it from the spoon.
8. *you can add dark rum instead of vanilla, 1/2 of light cream instead of the 1/4 and 1/4, white sugar instead of turbinado, etc.