Hot chocolate sauce

Name: Hot chocolate sauce
Yield: Makes around one cup
Ingredients: ½ tsp vanilla extract; 150 ml (5¼ fl oz) thickened (whipping) cream; 150 g (5¼ oz) dark bitter chocolate or couverture; 2 tbsp butter

Preparation info

Makes around
one cup

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Old Food

By Jill Dupleix

Published 1998

About

Just what you want when you want a hot chocolate sauce to pour over vanilla bean ice cream, or poached pears, or just about anything, really.

Ingredients

150 g (5¼ oz) dark bitter chocolate or couverture
150 ml (5¼

Sauce
Gluten-free
Vegetarian

Method

Break chocolate up into small pieces. Combine chocolate, cream, vanilla and butter in a heat-proof bowl set over a pot of simmering water. Stir constantly as the chocolate gradually melts. Serve hot.