Chocolate Sauce

Name: Chocolate Sauce
Yield: Approximately 4½ cups (1 L 80 ml)
Ingredients: 10 ounces (285 g) granulated sugar; 2 cups (480 ml) water; ½ cup (120 ml) glucose or light corn syrup; 1 pound (455 g) sweet dark chocolate, melted; 4 ounces (115 g) unsweetened cocoa powder, sifted

Preparation info

Approximately
4½ cups

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Advanced Professional Pastry Chef

By Bo Friberg

Published 2003

About

This versatile sauce can be kept on hand and is good either hot or cold. It is best suited to garnishing a dessert — a slice of cake, a pastry, or poached fruit, for example. If you want a chocolate sauce to serve as a main components of a dessert, especially ice cream, use Hot Fudge Sauce instead.

Ingredients

2 cups (480 ml) water
10 ounces (285

Garnish
Sauce
Winter
Summer
Vegan
Gluten-free

Method

Combine the water, sugar, and glucose or corn syrup in a saucepan. Bring to a boil, then remove from the heat.
Add enough of the syrup to the cocoa powder to make a soft paste, stirring until the mixture is completely smooth. Gradually add the remaining syrup to the paste.
Remove from the heat, add the melted chocolate, and stir until combined. If nec