Hot Fudge Recipe

This is my kind of hot fudge recipe. It's the kind of hot fudge sauce that gets deliciously sticky and chewy when poured over ice cream.

It's fantastic slightly heated and poured over vanilla ice cream (or caramel ice cream, or strawberry, or chocolate, or peanut butter, or... pretty much any flavor), but also try it on cheesecake or poured over pound cake.

Best of all, this homemade hot fudge sauce is incredibly easy.

You might never settle for store bought hot fudge sauce ever again.

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Hot Fudge Recipe

Yield: 2 ½ cups

This homemade hot fudge sauce recipe is so good you might never settle for store bought hot fudge again. It's the kind of hot fudge sauce that gets deliciously sticky and chewy when poured over ice cream.

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Ingredients

• ¼ cup granulate sugar
• ¼ cup dark brown sugar
• ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• ½ teaspoon salt
• ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
• ½ cup hot water
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 cup light corn syrup
• ¼ teaspoon white vinegar
• 4 ounces good quality bittersweet chocolate, coarsely chopped
• 4 tablespoon (½ cup) butter
• 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

1. In a large, heavy bottom saucepan, stir the sugar, brown sugar, cocoa powder, salt and cinnamon with a wire whisk until blended.
2. Slowly pour in the hot water, whisking until smooth. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, stirring often. Remove from the heat and stir in the cream, corn syrup, vinegar and 2 ounces of the chocolate. Stir until smooth and then cook over medium-high heat until the syrup is thick and sticky and the surface is covered in small bubbles, about 225 degrees on a candy thermometer.
3. Remove from the heat and stir in the remaining 2 ounces of chocolate, butter and vanilla. Stir until the chocolate and butter are melted and the hot fudge sauce is smooth.
4. Serve at once, or let cool and then cover and refrigerate for up to 2 weeks. Reheat in a heavy saucepan over low heat, or in the microwave in 30 second intervals.

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