Thick Homemade Chocolate Sauce (2024)

Easy Homemade Chocolate Sauce

Have you ever thought about making your own chocolate sauce? You may be wondering why make a homemade chocolate sauce recipe- like, isn’t this the same thing as hot fudge?

Hot fudge has a rich, thick, and chocolatey flavor similar to this chocolate sauce recipe, but it’s the texture and process that makes the difference. Hot fudge needs to be reheated every time you use it because it hardens up.

That’s why I made this easy chocolate syrup! You still get the delicious flavor and use of hot fudge but without the extra steps of warming it up and letting it cool: This homemade chocolate sauce is ready whenever you are.

You can pour it over ice cream, or in milk for a hot chocolate or my favorite, an iced mocha coffee. You’re going to love the endless uses of this one easy recipe.

Ingredients Needed

• Cocoa powder: You’ll need half a cup of unsweetened cocoa powder – you can use regular or Dutch process.
• Water: if you want a creamier and thicker chocolate sauce, use milk or coffee creamer instead of water.
• Sugar: granulated sugar sweetens the chocolate syrup.
• Vanilla: I’m using a half teaspoon of vanilla extract to give the syrup tons more flavor.

How to make chocolate sauce

1. Whisk together all ingredients in a small saucepan and boil over medium-low heat; cocoa, water, sugar, and salt.
2. Mix until the mixture is thick and the cocoa has completely dissolved.
3. Remove the mixture from the heat and add your vanilla.
4. Pour the melted mixture into a jar or covered container.
5. Cool at room temperature, then cover and store in the refrigerator.

Expert Tips

• For a deep chocolate sauce, use Dutch process cocoa
• Store covered in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks
• The sauce shouldn’t thicken in the refrigerator but if it does for some reason, just heat it to thin it out.

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