Easiest Way to Cook Appetizing Hot Fudge Sauce

Hot Fudge Sauce. In a large saucepan, combine the chocolate chips and butter. Cook and stir over low heat until melted. Combine the sugar, cream, cocoa and butter in a small saucepot over medium heat and cook, stirring, until the butter melts and everything is combined, a few minutes.

Remove from the heat; stir in vanilla. Hot fudge sauce should be stored in the fridge, where it will harden completely. Because it may be microwaved often, I recommend storing hot fudge in a glass jar. You can cook Hot Fudge Sauce using 5 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Hot Fudge Sauce

1. You need of heavy cream.
2. You need of good quality milk chocolate, I used Lindt brand, chopped.
3. It's of good quality dark chocolate I used Lindt 70 percent bars, chopped ( semi sweet will also work ).
4. It's of unsalted butter cut into 2 pieces.
5. You need of vanilla extract.

Hot fudge makes a great gift for the holidays, housewarmings, hostess gifts and more! Start by setting a heavy-bottom saucepan over low heat. The heavy bottom will keep you from scorching the chocolate, which can burn easily. Ideally, the chocolate chips should be unsweetened so you can control the sweetness, but dark or semisweet chocolate will work in a pinch.

Hot Fudge Sauce step by step

1. Place both chopped chocolates in a heat proof bowl, set aside.
2. Place cream and butter in a saucepan and heat over medium low heat until butter is melted and mixture is almost to a simmer, do not boil..
3. Pour hot cream / butter mixture over chopped chocolate in the bowl. Let sit 30 seconds to melt chocolate. Add the vanilla and whisk until smooth..
4. Serve hot over ice cream, cakes pies or fruit. Store in refrigerator. To reheat take the amount you want out and either place in a heatproof bowl in simmering water until hot or very carefully microwave until hot. Keeps about 2 weeks in refrigerator and freezes well..

Use a spatula to stir the butter and chocolate. Hot fudge is, of course, delicious served as an ice cream topping, but also consider using it as a dip for fruit, cake pieces, and chunks of cookies. It is also wonderful drizzled over cheesecake, angel food cake, and ice cream cake. This hot fudge sauce makes for a great, homemade gift for friends and family. ok, I have finally found a hot fudge recipe that I am going to keep. I did change a few things, though.