Chocolate Sauce

This easy Chocolate Sauce recipe is a delicious treat to pair with your favorite dessert! Calling for just 5 ingredients, this Hot Fudge Sauce comes together in less than 10 minutes and is wonderfully chocolatey.

We’re all BIG chocolate lovers in our house… and there’s something wonderful about a perfectly decadent chocolate sauce on top of most any dessert, right? 

It adds a little something extra, and I love it.

Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce

Turns out, Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce is incredibly simple to make at home. Honestly, this recipe is just about perfect for anything you could consider adding it to.

Also, I could easily eat this sauce by the spoonful.

Why You’ll Love This Chocolate Sauce

• It makes a large batch… so you’ve got plenty to keep in your fridge and enjoy, or you can portion some out to share with someone you love!
• You can pair it with anything chocolatey. Need a drizzle for cake or a cupcake? Boom. Want an ice cream topping? Here ya go.
• It’s balanced. Sometimes, sauces like these can get a little sweet for my likings. This one is not.
• You can make this sauce thicker or thinner. If you like a thicker fudge sauce, simply use less milk. If you want it to drizzle more easily, add a little more. I have notes on what to do in the recipe card below.

No matter how you look at it, this Homemade Chocolate Fudge Sauce is a simple treat to make at home! 

Chocolate Sauce Ingredients

You just need a handful of ingredients to make this Hot Fudge Sauce!

Here’s what you’ll need:

• Sweetened condensed milk — this canned goodness is the base of our sauce and provides creaminess, as well as sweetness. It is not the same thing as evaporated milk.
• Unsweetened cocoa powder — this is going to give our sauce the BEST flavor! You can use Dutch process or the regular unsweetened baking cocoa. Either will work.
• Kosher salt — adding salt to sweet things helps balance out the sweetness! Just a pinch will do. I like to use a medium-grain kosher salt here, so use something similar in size.
• Whole milk — this thins out the sauce just a little bit so it’s perfectly drizzleable
• Vanilla extract — the 100% pure kind is amazing and lets these chocolate flavors sing! 

How to Use

Who doesn’t love a drizzle of chocolate on top of, well, anything?

If you’re looking for some things to add this recipe to, let me suggest:

• Ice cream topping- what is better than chocolate fudge sauce on ice cream?
• Pound cake– every pound cake needs a little sauce!
• Brownies– Make them extra fudgy with sauce!
• Cheesecake– Vanilla cheesecake or this no bake chocolate cheesecake are delicious!
• Pancakes or waffles– I’m no opposed to chocolate for breakfast.
• Vanilla Custard– Chocolate’s best friend needs some love!
• Edible Cookie Dough– Drizzle over cookie dough for a super rich treat.

How to Make Chocolate Sauce

Making your own chocolate sauce is easy!

1. Choose your saucepan. I like to use a medium-sized one with a heavy bottom. 
2. Add the sweetened condensed milk, unsweetened cocoa powder and salt to the saucepan. 
3. Heat the ingredients over medium heat until combined, stirring constantly, then pour in the milk. 
4. Continue stirring until smooth, and cook until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon.
5. Remove the saucepan from the heat, and stir in the vanilla extract.
6. Serve warm or let cool, then store in a mason jar in the fridge.

Storage and Reheating

Storage: Store the cooled chocolate sauce in a mason jar. Keep it in the fridge for a month!

Reheating: Pour into a bowl, and reheat in 15-second increments, stirring between each one so the chocolate sauce does not burn.

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Chocolate Sauce

This easy Chocolate Sauce recipe is a delicious treat to pair with your favorite dessert! Calling for just 5 ingredients, this Hot Fudge Sauce comes together in less than 10 minutes and is wonderfully chocolatey.

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Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Keyword: chocolate sauce

Prep Time: 5 minutes minutes

Cook Time: 5 minutes minutes

Total Time: 10 minutes minutes

Servings: 2 cups

Calories: 777kcal

Ingredients

• 14 oz. sweetened condensed milk
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• ½ cup whole milk
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

• Combine the sweetened condensed milk, unsweetened cocoa and salt in a medium saucepan.
• Heat over medium heat while stirring constantly until combined, then pour in the milk.
• Continue stirring until smooth, and cook until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon.
• Remove the saucepan from the heat. Stir in the vanilla extract.
• Serve warm or let cool, then store in a mason jar in the fridge for up to a month.

Notes

You can make this a thicker sauce by adding less milk. If you want your fudge sauce to be thicker, start with ¼ cup of milk and see if that consistency is pleasing to you.

Nutrition

Calories: 777kcal, Carbohydrates: 136g, Protein: 26g, Fat: 25g, Saturated Fat: 16g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 7g, Cholesterol: 75mg, Sodium: 866mg, Potassium: 1484mg, Fiber: 16g, Sugar: 112g, Vitamin A: 629IU, Vitamin C: 5mg, Calcium: 694mg, Iron: 6mg