Recipe - Chocolate Sauce

Galganov's Recipe For Making Easy, Fast, Chocolate Sauce

To make this Chocolate Sauce recipe you will need:

a knife and chopping board to chop up the chocolate
double boiler or small saucepan
measuring spoons
a silicon spatula or wood spoon (we prefer silicon for this)

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The ingredients (per serving) required to make this fast 'n easy Chocolate Sauce recipe are:

14 grams (1/2 ounce) of semi-sweet baking chocolate
10 % cream
sugar

chocolate sauce ingredients

Method:

Chop up the chocolate and put it in the pan.
Add 2 1/2 teaspoons sugar.
Add 2 tablespoons 10 % cream (35 % is even nicer 'n richer).
Turn heat to low and stir constantly - chocolate burns at low heat. (If using a double boiler, you may preheat your pot a little while you prepare your ingredients.)
Once fully melted, taste and add cream and sugar only a little at a time until it satisfies your taste.

making chocolate sauce

Good Chocolate Management:

A double boiler is prefered.
Chocolate burns. Always melt chocolate at low heat.
Stir melting chocolate constantly to prevent burning and to insure homogeneity.
Don't leave chocolate to keep warm in a pan on the stove
Baking chocolate is best but chocolate chips work well and, in a pinch (if you're desperate) good quality dark chocolate will work.
Water is not chocolate's friend. If you use water, the chocolate will take on a slightly chewy texture (which can, too, be fun sometimes - but "sauce needs cream".
Use a slicing knife with a serated edge to chop up your chocolate. You will experience less scatter as you cut.

The Background Story
Chocolate Sauce

Chocolate Sauce is a foundation element in many desserts. The thing is, it's so impressive - putting together a dessert with a nice, home made chocolate sauce - that you would be embarrassed at how easy it is.

In fairness, almost any chocolate recipe should be executed in a double boiler but sometimes we get lazy. We always melt our chocolate on minimum heat (good chocolate, after all, melts in the package on a warm day ... never mind "in your hand") - chocolate burns very easily which is why one should always use a double boiler but ... we can be a little lazy.

Still, an instant chocolate sauce can't help but be a little impressive. (if you have the double boiler and you're fussy - use it instead of a saucepan.)

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