Chocolate Sauce

This is a versatile recipe that can be kept on hand to serve either hot or cold. It is best suited to garnish a dessert—a slice of cake, a pastry, or poached fruit, for example. If you serve a chocolate sauce as one of the main components of the dessert, most notably with ice cream, use Hot Fudge Sauce instead.

Chocolate sauce is much thinner when it is hot. If you plan to serve the chocolate sauce cold, let it cool to room temperature then add wat