We receive countless emails from our web visitors asking us if making chocolate sauce is difficult. For those of you who took the time to check out any of our unique chocolate sauce recipes, you'll see that the process is quite simple. All you need is a saucepan, wooden mixing spoon, and a handful of ingredients that are likely to be available in any local grocery store. Making chocolate sauce is quick, it's easy, and it's very likely that your end product will taste substantially better than any store bought brand name chocolate sauce on the market. Store bought chocolate sauce varieties are usually dulled down by heavy preservatives meant to prolong shelf life. Some of these brand name sauces can be saved however, all they need is a little cinnamon, nutmeg, or allspice added to them while being heated in a saucepan.
Several decades ago no one went to the store to buy chocolate sauce. You made your own with milk, cocoa powder, fresh cinnamon, honey, and other ingredients available in your cupboard. It's so simple to make and so delicious, that's it's really a wonder that the chocolate sauce market is so large today. Don't get me wrong however, there are some seriously amazing secret recipe type store bought chocolate sauces out there, in addition to the age old Hershey's variety. You can also purchase several brands that use organic ingredients only, and do not contain any preservatives. Despite all of these convenient off the shelf brands being available, organic or not, there still is very little reason to not just create your own, as it takes roughly five to ten minutes to whip up a batch, even if you start out from scratch with cocoa powder.
There are many ways to make chocolate sauce. You can use a saucepan, double boiler, microwave, or even a campfire. You can toss your ingredients together without paying much attention to proportions, and still come out with an amazing sauce. Or you can fine tune the process and get it down to a science, perfectly aligning all of your ingredients to meet every chocolate craving you ever had. You can create your chocolate sauce melting pot style, and throw everything in at once, or you can stage your cooking process one tasty ingredient at a time. The point being there really is no set way to make chocolate sauce. It's such an easy thing to do, and nearly every batch is salvageable in the event you take a wrong turn with too much or too little of any particular ingredient.
If you have never created your own chocolate sauce, give it a try. Go off the deep end with your ingredients, and wow people with your desserts. It's a great feeling to have someone bite into a piece of your own homemade chocolate cake, and then beg you for the chocolate sauce recipe. I've made chocolate sauces with the most peculiar things, Reese's Pieces, M&Ms, sesame seeds, Oreo cookies, maple syrup, ground powdered oatmeal, lemon juice, Red Hots candy, even teriyaki sauce. What sounds like a witch's brew in your head, might just taste like something only prepared by a five star dessert chef. So be creative, and really go crazy. Don't stress too much about perfecting any particular recipe, add your own specially unique element to the sauce, and really make it your own.
