Chocolate sauce is a sweet delicious condiment which has a lot of uses. It can be used as a topping for your ice cream, muffins and cakes or as a spread for your bread. It can also be used in making your chocolate milk shake and ice cream. It is very easy to make and costs very much less when made at home. And most of the time, the ingredients to make it are available at home. Although the recipe for making it is provided here, you can vary the quantity of each ingredient to suit your taste - either less bitter or sweeter. You can also vary the consistency of your chocolate sauce; if it is too runny, you may heat it a bit longer to thicken it. I usually make it when I have a lot of whipping or heavy cream remaining after my baking.
Ingredients:
- 80 g butter
- 100 g whipping cream
- 65 g brown sugar
- 15 g cocoa powder
- 5 g instant coffee
Method:
- Weigh all ingredients into a heat proof bowl.
- Put the bowl over a pot of boiling water (Bain-marie) without the bottom touching the boiling water.
- Stir the ingredients using a spatula.
- When the sugar, cocoa powder and coffee have dissolved and the sauce is shiny, remove it from the heat.
- The sauce will thicken as it cools down.
- After it has completely cooled down, transfer it to a glass bottle and keep it in the fridge if you are using it as a spread for your bread.
- However, if you are using it as a ganache, it is better to use it when it is still warm and runny.