While this post wasn’t exactly inspired by that quote (I’ll explain in a second), it certainly explains part of why I love this homemade chocolate sauce (it’s not hot fudge, per se, but you get the idea).
You see, every holiday season, my mom whips up batches upon batches of her homemade chocolate sauce. She jars up all of the sauce she makes, and writes hand-written labels to stick on the jars reading, “Serve warm over ice cream.” She places the gold, flat, air-tight lid on the Kerr jar, wraps a holiday-themed napkin over the top, and screws the lid on tight over the napkin. She gives these jars of homemade chocolate sauce as holiday gifts to friends and family, giving the extra large jars to those in her life with a sweet tooth (hi, Grandpa).
Anyway, I decided, in the spirit of this blog and trying to learn how to cook new things, to try to make my own batch this year! With my mom’s help.
And while I have plenty of pictures to show you how lovely the sauce turned out, that’s all I can give you. I’m sorry. The recipe…you guessed it, is a family secret. But here are some hints: there are five ingredients (while the pictures don't show all of the ingredients, you can probably guess a few), it involves a double boiler (or two saucepans placed on top of one another), and it’s quite possibly foolproof!
First thing's first. You have to wash the jars in hot, soapy water. While they are soaking, you can...
...start to melt two of the ingredients in a double boiler (can you guess what they are?).
Here comes the fun part.
The final, delicious product.
While this particular recipe is mine to keep, I won’t leave you high and dry. Here are some other drippy, rich, chocolately, fudgy sauces from sources I place great trust in:
- Hot Fudge Sauce from smittenkitchen.com
- Chocolate Sauce from marthastewart.com/food
- Bittersweet Chocolate Sauce from Bon Appétit
Happy 2010!
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