Ask your parents (or grandparents) about the ice-cream shops they went to when they were teenagers. The toppings didn’t all come out of pump cans, they were made right there from the same ingredients you would use: cocoa powder, sugar, milk, vanilla. This recipe will bring them back to their youth, and make you nostalgic for a time you never knew.
Ingredient
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 cup granulated white sugar
½ cup milk
2 tablespoons butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
Directions
Combine the cocoa, sugar and milk in a heavy-bottomed pan and bring to a boil over low heat.
Continue boiling gently, stirring frequently, for 4-5 minutes until the sauce starts foaming up and appears to double in size.
Remove from heat and stir in the butter and vanilla.
Note that even off the heat, the sauce will start bubbling again when you add the vanilla.
Pour the chocolate into a pitcher for serving. If your pitcher is glass or ceramic, put a metal spoon in before pouring in the chocolate.
The spoon will absorb some of the heat and help keep the glass from shattering from thermal shock.
And that’s it.
PS: If you don’t eat it all, cover the pitcher with plastic wrap and keep in the fridge for up to a week. (Maybe longer, but I make no promises.) Reheat in the microwave before serving.
PPS: The better the cocoa, the better the sauce. Jenn made this for years with Hershey’s cocoa powder. I had her try it with Ghirardelli. Now she’s spoiled and won’t eat the Hershey’s any more. Sorry, honey.
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
- 1 cup granulated white sugar
- ½ cup milk
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
Combine the cocoa, sugar and milk in a heavy-bottomed pan and bring to a boil over low heat.
Continue boiling gently, stirring frequently, for 4-5 minutes until the sauce starts foaming up and appears to double in size.
Remove from heat and stir in the butter and vanilla.
