BEST Homemade Chocolate Sauce
Best Homemade Chocolate Sauce is better than any store-bought chocolate sauce! Store in the refrigerator and serve over ice cream sundaes or chocolate cake! WATCH THE VIDEO!
Friends, you may remember my BEST Homemade Chocolate Sauce on Frozen Peppermint Ice Cream Dessert during the holidays.
You can make the sauce separately from the dessert and keep stored in a mason jar in the fridge. And I think it’s best served over my Mom, Millie’s Old-Fashioned Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream recipe!
Ready for last-minute company! Perfect for summer, too! Remember this post, How to Make a Summer Ice Cream Trough Dessert? So popular for any party! PS. Now with social distancing, you’d serve this “epic” trough dessert with individual bowls and spoons!
How do you make homemade chocolate sauce?
- Using a small saucepan, add together melted butter and chocolate and cook over low heat, stirring constantly.
- Stir in evaporated milk.
- Heat to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Cook and stir 5 minutes, or until slightly thickened; stir in vanilla.
- Cool completely, about 2 hours.
- Use right away (warm), or cover and refrigerate the sauce.
How long does homemade chocolate sauce last?
Homemade chocolate syrup has a shorter shelf life than store-bought, so I usually just keep my recipe in the fridge for about 2 weeks. That is, if it lasts that long. (HEE HEE)
Can you reheat chocolate sauce?
To reheat the sauce you can warm on the stovetop in a saucepan for about 5 minutes on low heat, stirring regularly. Or, microwave for about 15 seconds at a time until hot.
BEST Homemade Chocolate Sauce
Yesterday we didn’t know we’d be hosting until the morning, when a little dinner party just came together. So serving this BEST Homemade Chocolate Sauce on Last-Minute Crazy Cake or ice cream or gelato was the perfect company treat. Or, you can make an ice cream dessert.
Spring in the air
I bought some pussy willows last week at Trader Joe’s, because not only do they remind me of spring, they remind me of my mom. My mom always brought the pussy willows in, a sure sign that spring was on its way.
This time of year, we’re waiting patiently for that next season (will it ever come?), which seems to take its time here in central Oregon.
I was back home last week, and walked early in the mornings with my girlfriends. I’m not kidding, the daffodils are already blooming! Daffodils are enough to give a girl spring fever, that is for sure. That, and a whiff of recently mowed grass, as we walked through residential areas.
Anticipation
In the meantime, anticipation is a good thing.
When we get a dinner invite, or a date on the calendar to have company, I always look forward to those moments. There is a bit of anticipation whatever the invite, because it’s usually a really good time (and needed time) with friends.
So on this night, the table was set (I used a tablecloth) with love, a simple meal, great people and conversation, and then a little bite of sweetness.
Homemade Chocolate Sauce was served!
More recipes:
Homemade Old-Fashioned Chocolate Ice Cream
Simple Bittersweet Hot Fudge Sauce [View from Great Island]
Rocky Road Ice Cream [Barefeet in the Kitchen]
Get the Recipe:
Best Homemade Chocolate Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter, melted
- 2 oz unsweetened baking chocolate, melted
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/2 can, 6 oz evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, melt 1/4 cup butter and 2 squares (2 oz) chocolate over low heat, stirring constantly. Stir in sugar; gradually stir in evaporated milk.
- Heat to boiling over medium-high heat, stirring constantly. Cook and stir 5 minutes or until slightly thickened; stir in vanilla. Cool completely, about 2 hours.
- Use right away (warm), or cover and refrigerate the sauce.
Notes
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This is soooo good. I’ve made it twice now and my husband and kids just devour it. I added a tsp of espresso powder the second time and it made it that much better.
So easy and very good! It’s my go-to chocolate sauce now!
Could this be canned in a water bath for gifts?
I have never canned chocolate sauce. Sorry I can’t give advice on that.
Oh yummy – making homemade ice cream for family this weekend – will have to make some of this too!!
Delicious ? I used Chocolate Almond Bark because that’s what I had & it worked great..thank you for sharing ?
a great staple to know how to make for unexpected dinner parties like yours or to keep and use for, whatever, nice set of ingredients in this chocolate sauce, thank you