Simple Chocolate Sauce

To get the very best chocolate sauce, use the very best chocolate you can find. What makes it “the best”? If you want to get technical, better chocolate has a lot of chocolate mass with a minimum of cocoa butter and other stuff—even natural stuff. Scharffen Berger, Valrhôna, Callebaut, and Ghirardelli brands are all wonderful. If you have enough dessert making experience to know that chocolate can be tricky to work with, relax: the key is to heat the chocolate gently so that the mass doesn’