As you have probably already concluded just by browsing through all of our delicious recipes, there is virtually no limit to the things you can do with chocolate sauce. Whether it be making creative sauces from scratch using a variety of ingredients, or incorporating these sauces into breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert recipes. The goal of our website is not only to provide our guests and visitors with tons of great recipes, but to also provoke a search for new chocolate sauce blends that you can create in the comfort of your own kitchen. All of our recipes are extremely flexible, and can all be easily tailored to meet your own taste preferences. So really go off the wall when creating your sauces, toss in some peanut butter, organic bees honey, crushed nuts, or even raisins. The more unique and tasty the sauce, the more the people eating your desserts will smile.
Over the years I have added some strange ingredients to chocolate sauce, although some of the sauces did not turn out all that tasty, others ended up being some of my favorite chocolate sauce recipes. You can't always let the fear of creating one awful dessert dissuade you from trying something different, especially considering all of our favorite desserts were at one time just an off the beaten path idea, such as pumpkin pie, apple pie, chocolate chip cookies, or even a banana split. If you need some help finding a starting point for a new creation, think nuts, fruits, fresh spices, flavor extracts, almond milk, soy milk, honey, alcohol, even cayenne pepper or jalapeno juice. Obviously the more contrasting the ingredients are, the more skill and refining it will take to pull off the recipe, but those are usually the ones worth the effort.
Adding alcohol, beer, and flavored liqueurs to chocolate sauce is really fun too. I once made an Austrian Stroh Original 80 Spiced Rum based chocolate sauce that I used as chocolate cake frosting, and the cake ended up winning several local baking awards. Without the chocolate sauce and the motivation to create something new, my chocolate cake would never have made it into the contest. I have also created other divine chocolate sauces, using Guinness Stout, chocolate beer, raspberry ale, red wine, white wine, Baileys Irish Cream Liqueur, Polish vodka, and many others. All of these alcohols will add a totally unique flavor to any chocolate sauce, and in some cases it will blend so well, that it will be hard to identify what the alcohol based ingredient is. So give this a try if you are looking to create something truly unique and tasty.
Another great avenue to explore with chocolate sauce, is with dairy products. I have made chocolate sauce with whole milk or heavy cream, 2% milk, almond milk, rice milk, soy milk, coconut milk, evaporated milk, condensed milk, even goat's milk. I have also used sour cream, cream cheese, cottage cheese, yogurt, and even feta cheese. Some of these ingredients sound like they might be out of place when it comes to chocolate sauce, but no one that tasted the finished sauce would think that. It also depends a lot on what you are using the chocolate sauce for. Dairy products go particularly well with chocolate sauces used in dessert recipes, such as cakes, pies, pastries, or homemade doughnuts. Dairy products will obviously add that silky texture to any sauce, even if it is just one solitary teaspoon of regular 2% milk. So do be sure and explore this tangent as well.
