Homemade Staples: Chocolate Sauce
A good chocolate sauce can really raise the bar for your desserts. If you’ve never made your own chocolate sauce before, you’ll see how incredibly easy it is and vow never to buy store-bought sauce again (with loads of ingredients with hard to pronounce names).
Plus, chocolate sauce put in small canning jars as shown above make wonderful hostess gifts!
Chocolate Sauce
- 1/4 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup water
- 1 Tbs arrowroot
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
Combine all ingredients in a small saucepan and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.
Once it starts boiling, it will thicken. Once desired consistency, remove from heat. (If the chocolate sauce gets too thick, just add a dash of water and it stir. It will thin out.)
Add vanilla to mixture and stir until combined.
Pour over dessert.
34 comments on “Homemade Staples: Chocolate Sauce”
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Kenley, I would love to have it with turkey 🙂
How interesting! I don’t think I’ve ever heard of chocolate with turkey!
If I’m not wrong, its a Mexican way of eating.
Huh. Very cool to know, Thanks. 🙂
Kenley
Arrowroot powder, what a great idea!! This sounds fantastic.
Thanks Suzanne! I’m a huge fan of arrowroot. 🙂
Kenley
Um hello, hot fudge sundaes with coconut milk ice cream!
Totally! And in my other post from yesterday I show how you can make homemade Kahlua Ice Cream (https://greendoorhospitality.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/elegant-and-affordable-kahlua-ice-cream/). Lindy, the awesome blogger who originally shared that recipe also did one for a Dark Chocolate Kahlua Gelato (http://lindymechefske.com/2013/05/12/when-everyone-else-is-spring-bound/) that uses coconut milk. And neither recipe requires an ice cream maker!
yummy! I will be trying this chocolate sauce for sure! you know, I’m a big fan of anything with chocolate and I’m up for anything I can do myself! 🙂 thanks for sharing it with us Kenley! 🙂
Glad you like it Ingrid! Super easy and tasty — and works well with so many desserts. I also found it to be really yummy to clean the bowl with a few fresh strawberries! 😉
Kenley
How to make chocolate sauce is dangerous knowledge…I foresee a lot more ice cream in my future!
Hehe! Indeed — very dangerous AND very delicious! 🙂
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HaHa! any recipe page starting with chocolate has my attention. Also you are right about “unpronounceable” names. I like to give my family, food that is as natural as possible and “home cooking” is one way to do it. I know my friends would be impressed and appreciative if I turned up with this! Yum!
Thanks! So glad you like it! And yes — home cooking is the perfect way to provide your family with as natural and as nutritious food as possible! 🙂
Kenley
Aaah! I don’t even know what arrowroot is! Where do I find it? 🙂
Arrowroot is a gluten-free starch and used as a thickener. Similar to using cornstarch or flour. I like using it because it thickens at a lower temperature than cornstarch or flour — which makes it perfect for recipes like this chocolate sauce — too high of a temperature and you would risk burning the chocolate. The only thing I would not use it for is with dairy — it doesn’t mix well and makes more of a slimy substance.
Kenley
Awesome, thank you so much! I pinned this post so I remember to try it and I”ll have to put arrowroot on the list. Thank you again!
You are quite welcome, Erin! 🙂
Oh — and forgot to mention that you can find arrowroot in the same aisle as cornstarch, as well as amongst the small bags of ‘specialty flours’ (despite the fact that it isn’t a flour).
OK, thanks! I could have wandered the aisles for hours looking for it…Ha!
Ha! I’m just imagining you wandering around whispering “Arrowroot….where are you arrowroot? Come out, come out wherever you are.”
Kenley! Thanks so much for sharing this recipe! I have often thought about making chocolate sauce in a pinch to go with dessert… and I love that this is vegan too! Very clever 🙂
Thanks!! Yes… vegan and gluten-free AND DELICIOUS! Can’t go wrong there! 🙂
perfect!!! 🙂
Just tried this tonight! It thickened up a bit too much as I think the heat was too high for a little too long, however it is **very** easy to adjust the consistency by adding a touch more water and stirring well! Easy! 🙂 Thank you, Kenley! xx
So glad you made the chocolate sauce! And yes, very good point. I’ll add that to the end to remind people that if it does thicken up too much to just add a bit more water.
Kenley
what do you use it for? is it like Nutella?
Not quite. Nutella is more of a spread. This is a sauce to be poured over desserts. So for instance the Kahlua Ice Cream I posted — or any other ice cream. Also good poured over angel food cake, banana splits, strawberry tarts, etc. 🙂
Kenley
ah OK, not something we have in Italian cooking so that’s why I was asking.
🙂
This would be the perfect Food Swap gift if you decide to come to one!
Good call! And yeah… hoping to make the next one in July! 🙂
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