How to Make Homemade Hot Chocolate Fudge Sauce from Scratch

This hot fudge sauce has been a family recipe for 40 years. The sauce is thick, fudgy, rich, inexpensive, easy to make, and wonderful to give as gifts at holiday time.

Makes about 5 1/2 cups.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• 12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup butter
• 4 cups powdered sugar
• 2 2/3 cup evaporated milk
• 2 1/2 tsp vanilla
• 1/8 tsp salt
• jars for storing

1. Melt butter and chocolate chips in a large saucepan over medium heat.

2. Stir constantly until melted.

3. Slowly add powdered sugar and evaporated milk.

4. Increase heat and bring to a boil. Stir constantly for 8 minutes. (This step is very important. You want the ingredients to boil together so that the sauce is the proper consistency.)

5. Remove from heat ans stir in vanilla and salt.

6. Pour into glass jars and store in refrigerator. Makes about 5 1/2 cups.

7. To serve, dip a small amount out of jar and microwave for a few seconds to heat.

8. Serve over ice cream, angel food cake, and pound cake. Also delicious as a chocolate dip for fruit, cookies, and marshmallows.

[eliptica]

on 3/2/2009 This sounds awsome. I am going to make this and then dip strawberries in it and eath them. YYUUUUUUMMMMM!