Chocolate sauce
A quick cocoa sauce for ice cream and puddings. Makes 1 cup (250 ml)
A thick, glossy chocolate sauce made from store-cupboard cocoa and milk, ready in under 10 minutes. Pour it hot over vanilla ice cream, or let it cool and spread it on cakes and puddings.
- Total time
- 9 min
- Difficulty
- easy
- Serves
- 4
Ingredients
Method
0/4 doneStep 1: Put 2 tbsp cornflour, 2 tbsp cocoa powder and 2 tbsp sugar in a small saucepan and pour in 1 cup cold milk. Whisk until smooth, with no dry lumps left.
Step 2: Cook on a low heat, stirring continuously, until the sauce comes to the boil and thickens enough to coat the spoon.
6 minStep 3: Take the pan off the heat and stir in 1 tsp vanilla essence.
Step 4: Keep stirring until the sauce cools a little, then cover it so no skin forms. Serve hot with ice cream, or cool as a topping for cakes and puddings.
Nutrition per serving
- Calories
- 85 kcal
- Protein
- 3 g
- Carbs
- 13 g
- Fat
- 3 g
Nutrition values are estimates.
Badal Patel
Good to know
- How long does chocolate sauce take?
- About 9 minutes in total: 2 minutes to prepare and 7 minutes to cook.
- How many people does it serve?
- 4 as written. Change the servings above the ingredients and every amount scales to match.
- Is it vegetarian?
- Yes. It has no meat or fish.
- What can I use instead of cold milk?
- Oat, soy or almond milk, same amount (use unsweetened for savoury dishes).
- What can I use instead of cornflour?
- Arrowroot or potato starch, same amount.
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