Buy Now → Hot Fudge Sauce
This Hot Fudge Sauce is the ultimate topping for ice cream, with a rich chocolate flavor. It's made in one pot in under 10 minutes and keeps well in the refrigerator for all your ice cream cravings!
- Prep Time: 00:05
- Cook Time: 00:05
- Total Time: 10 minutes
- Yield: 2 cups
- Category: Dessert
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup (65 grams) granulated sugar
- ⅓ cup (85 grams) lightly packed brown sugar
- ¼ cup (28 grams) unsweetened cocoa powder
- ½ teaspoon coarse kosher salt
- ½ cup (115 grams) heavy cream
- ¼ cup (60 grams) water (see note)
- 2 tablespoons (30 grams) refined coconut oil or unsalted butter
- ½ cup (42 grams) chopped dark baking chocolate
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- In a medium pot, whisk together the granulated sugar, brown sugar, cocoa powder, and salt. Add in the cream and water, a little at a time, while whisking the mixture together.
- Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently with a rubber spatula until the mixture comes to a rolling boil.
- Turn down the heat to the lowest setting, add in the butter, baking chocolate, and vanilla, and cook, stirring, until the chocolate and coconut oil are melted and the mixture is homogenized.
- Shut off the heat. Let the chocolate sauce cool briefly, then transfer to a heat-proof storage container.
- Serve warm over ice cream.
- Refrigerate, covered, for up to 1 week. Gently rewarm as needed in a pot over low heat or in the microwave in 5-second intervals.
Equipment
Buy Now → Notes
Hot fudge sauce will keep for at least a week in the refrigerator.
Use a chopped up chocolate bar or couverture chocolate if possible. Use a dark chocolate or semi-sweet chocolate somewhere within the range of 54% to 70% cacao.
Use either dark brown sugar or light brown sugar per your preference.
It does not matter what type of cocoa powder you use.
This recipe was tested using Diamond Crystal coarse kosher salt. If you use Morton's kosher salt or fine salt, decrease the volume by half.
This recipe drew education and inspiration from the Hot Fudge Sauce by David Lebovitz in The Perfect Scoop.
Find it online: https://everydaypie.com/hot-fudge-sauce/