3 ingredient Easy homemade chocolate sauce

Make this Easy Homemade Hot chocolate sauce with just simple pantry ingredients. And use in a variety of desserts.

What is this Chocolate Sauce?

This is a simple cocoa vanilla syrup. This sauce gives a pure, deep cocoa flavor. Slightly thin in consistency, but will thicken upon cooling.

So you do not need to add any corn syrup or butter or cream or even melted chocolate. Made with a few pantry ingredients; it is one of the most easiest and versatile sauces that you can make at home, and store it.

Make this sauce in addition to other dessert sauces like Homemade nutella, Chocolate Caramel Fudge or try this strawberry compote and serve them with cakes, waffles or as dessert dips.

This Chocolate Sauce is

• Vegan
• Dairy Free
• Requires No butter
• Does not use any thickener like Corn syrup
• No Cream
• No melted Chocolate as well

Make This Hot Chocolate Sauce From Scratch

So what ingredients do you need?

It is so easy to get these ingredients in hand - just these few

Cocoa powder - Pure unsweetened cocoa powder

Sugar - plain white granulated sugar.

Vanilla and water - vanilla extract.

And all it takes is 5 to 10 mins. From start to finish.

Just boil water and sugar, on medium-low flame, until sugar is dissolved. Remove from heat.

Then sift in the cocoa powder, and whisk continuously. So that there are no lumps forming. Once all the cocoa powder is blended.

At this point, you may add butter or corn syrup or cream.

Remove from heat.

Let it come down to room temperature. Then store in an air tight container

Can you make this Sauce Vegan?

Yes...!! Yes...!! and Yes..! The Basic Sauce is completely Vegan

For other variations - Vegan substitutes are

1. For Butter: Use vegan butter, or any nut butter( preferably almond or cashew butter)
2. Cream - coconut cream is a good choice

But this recipe here is a simple chocolate sauce.

Where All Can I Use this Hot Chocolate Sauce

Oh yes .... This Chocolate sauce has a zillion ways you can use them.

Drizzle on ice creams, Brownies

Smear them on Pound Cake Slices.

Warm it up and pour them on a brownie and ice cream for hot chocolate brownie sundae

Serve it as an accompaniment for your breakfast platters with pancakes, waffles, crepes.

Store it in a squeeze bottle - and use it on any dessert you like.

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all you need to take your dessert to another level.

Mix and match these recipes below and pair them with chocolate sauce

Almond Chocolate Fudge Ice Cream

Triple Chocolate Ice Cream

Moist Chewy Brownies

Chocolate Cake

Black forest Ice Cream

How To Store Chocolate Sauce ?

First to store chocolate sauce, It needs to be at room temperature.

Next the container to store them - you may use a squeeze bottle, or a glass jar.

Whichever storage container you use

• Clean the storage container, thoroughly with lukewarm water.
• Dry it completely, with no drops of water at all.
• Pour the room-temperature chocolate sauce into the jar and store it in the refrigerator.
• If storing in a store cupboard/cabinet, keep it away from sunlight.

Variations with the sauce you may play around with

Chocolate Syrup - Add corn syrup - it will thicken the thin sauce consistency to a slightly gooey consistency. Works perfectly for drizzling on ice creams, or for chocolate shakes.

Hot Fudge Chocolate Sauce - To make it fudgy and thick; add in some melted chocolate, some cream and butter. This will make a thick fudge chocolate sauce. To serve warm it up a little. This Hot Fudge Sauce is your best pair for ice cream - So perfect as a fudge topping

Best chocolate to use is Ghirardelli, Callebaut

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