How to Make Chocolate Sauce

How to Make Chocolate Sauce How to Make Chocolate Sauce Chocolate lovers will agree that chocolate tastes good in any form. Chocolate sauce is another very good form of chocolate. When you decide to make chocolate sauce, you must choose chocolate which has a lot of cocoa in it. This will give you really tasty and rich sauce. Although it is difficult to believe, dark chocolate is best for making sauce. Once it is made into sauce, the bitter taste is completely eliminated and you get great sauce. There are many other ingredients besides chocolate which are used to make sauce. Let us learn how to make chocolate sauce in a very easy method.

The ingredients used for making chocolate sauce can vary a bit but the sauce is equally tasty every time. The main ingredients used in this recipe are dark chocolate, water, butter, cream, sugar and vanilla essence. You can vary the ingredients a bit by using castor sugar instead of the regular sugar. You can also use cocoa powder and milk instead of dark chocolate.
Take 150 ml water and 4 tbsp of sugar in a pan and heat it to mix them well. Keep stirring and applying heat until the entire sugar melts.
Now you have to add 200 gms of dark chocolate and 50 gms of butter. Break up the pieces of the hard chocolate and butter so that you can easily put them inside the sugar solution. Keep stirring the solution.
Remove from heat and keep on mixing until the chocolate and butter pieces have completely blended with the sugar solution. You should get a uniform mixture.
Now add 6 tbsp of cream and ½ tsp of vanilla essence. Again stir well so that you get a thick, creamy, flowing mixture.
The hot chocolate sauce is now ready to be served.
You can use 2 cups milk, 2tbsp of corn flour and 5 tbsp of cocoa powder instead of dark chocolate. But if you are very particular about the tastes of dark chocolate, then make sure that you don’t apply too much heat when you are cooking the chocolate pieces or else you will get a burnt taste in your mouth. The beautiful flavor of the chocolate sauce will be totally lost.
If you want to vary your taste, then you can add brandy instead of vanilla essence. In fact, you can experiment a lot with similar recipes to get different varieties of chocolate sauce for different occasions.

Chocolate sauce is a wonderful accompaniment to vanilla ice cream. You can buy or make vanilla ice cream at home and pour the chocolate sauce over to get a great taste. This can be a superb dessert to serve your guests after a sumptuous meal. Making it is very easy and for a very little effort, you can earn a lot of compliments.