Written by Kate Tietje
I planned to make some butterscotch sauce to go on my ice cream a while back. I was craving ice cream — not for the sugar, but for the cream and the egg yolks (I also crave butter). Thankfully, I’m not craving chocolate much, which is a sign of magnesium deficiency (I craved it a ton after Jacob was born but didn’t know I was severely deficient).
Still, sometimes a little chocolate is fun.
I decided that rather than do the butterscotch sauce, I’d try to make a similar chocolate sauce. Most that I had tried were sort of gummy and odd, and I thought this would produce a better result.
It did. Wonderful texture and rich chocolate flavor. I enjoyed every bite!
Chocolate Fudge Sauce
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup butter (or coconut oil)
- 3/4 cup sucanat (or organic cane sugar or 1/2 cup maple syrup)
- 1 or 2 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate
- 3/4 cup heavy cream (or coconut cream)
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract (learn how to make vanilla extract)
Directions:
Step 1: Add the butter and sugar to a medium saucepan (I recommend grass-fed butter).
Step 2: And the chocolate (broken into chunks). Use 1 ounce for “milk chocolate” and 2 ounces for “dark chocolate.” It’s a pretty deep chocolate flavor with 2 ounces.
Step 3: Put it on low heat and let it all melt. This will take a little while. Don’t turn it up higher to try to rush it. The sugar will burn before everything melts. Or the chocolate will burn. I learned my lesson making butterscotch sauce before. Just don’t.
Step 4: After it melts, allow it to cook for 5 – 10 minutes without stirring. It should be bubbling lightly.
Step 5: Add the heavy cream now. Stir it in. This will thin the mixture some; that’s okay. It’s not done.
Step 6: Allow it to bubble lightly on low heat for 10 minutes, again without stirring. It will thicken as it cooks.
Step 7: Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.
That’s it! It will thicken even more as it cools.
Store in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks — if it lasts that long. I hoard mine because I’m mean, so it does. I like to spoon some chocolate fudge sauce over my ice cream and then top it with crispy walnuts. So yummy. And so nourishing, too. (The ice cream and the nuts — not the chocolate sauce so much.)
Chocolate Fudge Sauce
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup butter or coconut oil
- 3/4 cup sucanat or organic cane sugar or 1/2 cup maple syrup
- 1 or 2 oz. unsweetened baking chocolate
- 3/4 cup heavy cream or coconut cream
- 2 tsp. vanilla extract
Instructions
- Add the butter and sugar to a medium saucepan (I recommend grass-fed butter).
- And the chocolate (broken into chunks). Use 1 ounce for "milk chocolate" and 2 ounces for "dark chocolate." It's a pretty deep chocolate flavor with 2 ounces.
- Put it on low heat and let it all melt. This will take a little while. Don't turn it up higher to try to rush it. The sugar will burn before everything melts. Or the chocolate will burn. I learned my lesson making butterscotch sauce before. Just don't.
- After it melts, allow it to cook for 5 - 10 minutes without stirring. It should be bubbling lightly.
- Add the heavy cream now. Stir it in. This will thin the mixture some; that's okay. It's not done.
- Allow it to bubble lightly on low heat for 10 minutes, again without stirring. It will thicken as it cooks.
- Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla.
Just made some vanilla ice cream to go with strawberry rhubarb crisp. Will have to make and try this fudge. My little man hasn’t gained as much as yours but nearly – 2 lbs 12 oz over going home weight (he’d lost 8 oz before heading home) and 3 in gained in 4 weeks. He likes to nurse a lot, too.
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