Chocolate Sauce Recipe
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Chocolate Sauce Recipe
Description
The Chocolate Sauce Recipe combines butter, heavy cream, and light corn syrup, heated to boiling to create a base that melts chopped bittersweet chocolate into a smooth, glossy sauce. The corn syrup adds viscosity and enhances the sauce’s shine, while the bittersweet chocolate offers depth and balance to the sweetness. Melting the ingredients off heat and waiting before whisking helps achieve a uniform texture.
The resulting sauce can be poured over ice cream, cakes, or fruit as a finishing touch, adding a rich chocolate flavor with a polished appearance. Adjust sweetness using maple syrup substitution, keeping in mind the flavor difference.
Leftovers keep covered in the refrigerator for up to four days. The sauce can be prepared up to three days ahead for convenience, allowing the chocolate to meld with the creamy base.
Ingredients
- 4 tablespoons butter (1/2 stick)
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup (see note 1)
- 8 ounce bittersweet chocolate finely chopped (see note 2
Instructions
- In a small sauce pan, melt butter over medium-high heat. Add cream and corn syrup and bring to a boil.
- Remove from heat, stir in chocolate, and cover for 5 minutes. Whisk until chocolate is smooth.
Notes
- Corn syrup adds sweetness and makes the sauce glossy; maple syrup can be used but alters the flavor.
- Use chopped baking chocolate instead of chips for smoother, more luscious sauce since chips contain stabilizers and less cocoa butter.
- This recipe yields about 2 cups of chocolate sauce.
- Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator for up to 4 days.
- The sauce can be prepared up to 3 days in advance for easy use.
Nutrition Information
Show DetailsNutrition Facts
Serving: 16servings (2 tbsp each)
Amount Per Serving
Calories 150 kcal
% Daily Value*
| Serving | 2tbsp | |
| Calories | 150kcal | 8% |
| Carbohydrates | 12g | 4% |
| Protein | 1g | 2% |
| Fat | 11g | 17% |
| Saturated Fat | 7g | 35% |
| Trans Fat | 1g | 50% |
| Cholesterol | 22mg | 7% |
| Sodium | 15mg | 1% |
| Potassium | 92mg | 2% |
| Fiber | 1g | 4% |
| Sugar | 9g | 18% |
| Vitamin A | 232IU | 5% |
| Vitamin C | 1mg | 1% |
| Calcium | 19mg | 2% |
| Iron | 1mg | 6% |
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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