Chocolate Sauce

Name: Chocolate Sauce
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 8 oz/225 g soft dark brown sugar; 3½ tbsp cocoa powder, sifted; 3 oz/86 g butter; 2 tsp coffee powder; 1 tsp vanilla essence or a few drops of extract; 1 tsp vanilla essence or a few drops of extract; 3 tbsp golden syrup; ½ pint/285 ml boiling water

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

I am such a chocolate addict and how I wish I wasn’t, but it is just one of those things you have to learn to live with! This sauce fills my best expectations of all that a chocolate sauce should be.

Ingredients

8 oz/225 g soft dark brown sugar
3½ tbsp cocoa powder

Sauce
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Put all the ingredients into a saucepan and heat until smooth, then bring to the boil. Simmer gently, stirring occasionally, for 5 minutes.

This sauce keeps well in a jar in the fridge, but it becomes thick and fudgy when cold. To reheat, stand the jar in a warm place and then pour the sauce into a saucepan.