Ditch the bottled stuff and make your own chocolate fudge sauce from scratch. It’s pourable, reheatable, and easy to make.
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Good stuff!
I Want my chocolate sauce to be more runny, should i increase the amount of milk added ?
I decided to try this sauce with some ice cream and it was a bit rich but ok
More like England's test kitchen amirite??!
Great recipe. So easy! Too many recipes are too complicated, so this was nice yo find. I'll definitely be making this!
Thanks!
How much is 1/2 a stick of butter in grams ??
Love this , thanks 👍🏽
I subscribed purely on the fact that the guy doing this recipe is totally in love with food 🙂
Will it work to substitute heavy whipping cream instead of milk?
His accent makes it difficult to understand.
Measurement with grams would be helpful.
This is very well done. Depending on one's taste it doesn't need the last quarter cup of sugar.
Ingredients :
1 and 1/4 cup of sugar
2/3 cup of milk
1/4 teaspoon of salt
1/3 cup of cocoa powder
3 ounces of unsweetened chocolate
1/2 stick of butter
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
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Instructions:
1- Add the sugar, milk and salt in a saucepan and for the first 5 or 6 minutes keep your burner at medium-low heat and whisk until sugar dissolves
2- Once you see bubbles around the edges turn your heat down to LOW and add the cocoa powder and whisk until smooth
3- Remove the saucepan from the burner and add the unsweetened chocolate and stir a little bit then leave it for 3 minutes so it can melt
Now whisk untill smooth when chocolate is fully melted.
4- Now add the butter BUT cut the half stick into 8 pieces. And keep whisking
5- when the butter fully incorporated and the sauce has thickened ADD the vanilla
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Note: You can refrigerate this sauce up to a month.
When you need the sauce just put it in the microwave stirring every 10 seconds until warm and portable
Watching the hot fudge sauce pour over the ice cream is so mesmerizing. I love this recipe. I make it so much and in large quanities. Thank you ATK!!
My notes for disabled:
Ingredients
1 ¼ cup granulated sugar
⅔ cup milk
¼ tsp salt
⅓ cup cocoa
3 oz unsweetened chocolate, (chopped)
½ stick butter, cut into 8 pieces
1 tsp vanilla extract
Preparation Steps
1. Whisk together sugar, milk and salt in a saucepan over medium-low heat for 5-6 minutes or until sugar is completely dissolved.
2. Once it starts to bubble around the edges, turn heat down to low and add cocoa. Whisk until smooth.
3. Remove from heat and stir in chocolate. Whisk until smooth and chocolate is fully melted.
4. Whisk in butter, one piece at a time.
5. Once the butter is fully incorporated, whisk in the vanilla.
Notes
The butter thickens the sauce and strengthens the emulsification so the sauce won’t break when reheated.
Refrigerate up to a month.
Gently reheat in microwave, stirring every 10 seconds.
Cocoa adds to the complexity…of chocolate syrup. Sugar adds richness.
Were you trying to cause aneurysms…?
I made this sauce. Instead of unsweetened chocolate, I used 37% cocoa milk chocolate. It was delishhhhhh … 🥰🤤 just amazing as a hot fudge on vanilla custard ice-cream! BUT after refrigeration it became something else. THE MOST AMAZING chocolate spread I have ever tasted. No exaggeration. I'm allergic to Nutella and I've never found an acceptable alternative, but this blows Nutella out of the water! This is now my go-to 'accidentally nut-free' homemade chocolate spread. Thank you so much for sharing this amazing recipe.
Can someone please write what ingredients he said and the amount as I’m unable to understand his accent.
Really intuitive instructions helpful. Thank you
Its delicioussssssss❤️❤️❤️❤️ I made this, I also made homemade brownies and vanilla ice cream. The combination of the 3 is a killerrr😻
Tip: Have it cold, keep it refrigerated till its cold enough, it tastes just like Mc Donalds chocolate sauce which I absolutely love….
What if we don't have dark chocolate at the time? Should I skip it?
I barely hear from that awful music
this its so tastey am i right
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1 1/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup milk
1/4 tsp salt
1/3 cup cocoa powder
3 oz unsweetened chocolate
1/4 cup butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
I made it tonight and it has the purest chocolate taste of any chocolate sauce I have ever known. This was so good that putting it over ice cream diluted the chocolate flavor, which was disappointing, haha! Better to eat this straight from the spoon and totally pure. Thank you very much.
Same recipe as America’s Test Kitchen…Saw it three days ago…
Does it work with an electric stove?
Since I put this on ice cream, which is for me sickly sweet anyway, I didn't add sugar to the recipe, and WOW! It was chocolatey, but it was still helped by the sweetness of the ice cream. It was delectible!
If you want to boost the flavour even darker, add a quarter teaspoon – with the cacao – of freeze-dried coffee … incredibly dark and especially over some über-choco-cocolate-fudge ice cream … MAN!!!
I love Elle, but Joe is great too with the shorter video. Love the music behind the video. Trying this fudge tonight!!!
“Delectable, horrible???, reheatable” It took me until he said it the second time at the end to realize he said ‘pourable’
Looks like a good recipe…but how much is half a stick of butter? Our butter does not come in sticks but in 500g blocks. ?
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Liked and subbed!👍💯
Wow, he can whip that whisk….lol
I made this sauce it is amazing 😍
1 ¼ cups (8 3/4 ounces) sugar
⅔ cup whole or 2 percent low-fat milk
¼ teaspoon salt
⅓ cup (1 ounce) unsweetened cocoa powder,
sifted
3 ounces unsweetened chocolate,
chopped fine
4 tablespoons unsalted butter,
cut into 8 pieces and chilled
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
In a saucepan add:
1.25 cup of suger
2/3 cup of milk
1/4 tsp of salt
Whisk until combined on medium low heat for 5 minutes until starts to bubble
Lower the heat and add:
1/3 cup of cocoa powder
Whisk until combined then remove from the heat and add:
3 ounces of chocolate
Whisk until combined, then add:
1/2 stick of butter
Whisk until combined, then add:
1 tsp of vanilla extract
Whisk aaand done!
Would have helped a lot if you had written the ingredients down in the description or had a link so it could be seen in written form also!
Delectactable, and horrible? Okay still tryin this :'D
Why are we stupid enough to actually buy this when we can make our own? The older I get the more baffled I am at how little I know. Right… it won't last a month though. Thanks for teaching us how to do it.
I've trusted the Test Kitchen for years (I make their brownies often) so I went straight to this video to help me make my life even less healthy and yes, this hot fudge sauce is perfect: delicious and easy to make.
I speak English but I have no idea what he just said.