Grandma's Recipe
Hooray for Hot Fudge Sundae day! Our lip-smacking recipe for this Hot Fudge Sauce originated with my Grandma Gladys Greer, of St. Johns, Arizona. She boiled it for 3 minutes then used it to quickly frosted a delicious chocolate cake. Grandma's chocolate cake was a stand out! My mom, my sisters and I have continued Grandma Gladys's tradition by boiling the recipe just two minutes and using it as hot fudge sauce.
This sauce is chocolaty, smooth and silky. It's the perfect topping for ice cream. We love a good hard vanilla ice cream (like Breyer's Natural Vanilla). The contrast of flavors and temperatures between the chocolate and vanilla, and the hot and cold is addicting. And, it's so easy!
To make this easy recipe. you combine six ingredients and stir them over medium heat. You want to bring the sauce to a boil, then let it continue a good rolling boil for two minutes until it reaches the "soft ball" stage and remove it from the heat. You can test the soft ball stage by setting a small spoonful of sauce in a cup of ice cold water and see if it forms a soft ball.
Do you like your sauce thick or thin?
You can text the firmness of your hot fudge sauce by putting a spoon, with a little fudge on it, into a cup of ice water. The firmness you feel when the sauce hits the ice water will show you how the sauce will be on your ice cream. I tend to like my sauce like a soft caramel sauce. If you want your sauce thinner, just add 1-2 tablespoons more evaporated milk.
Easily my favorite dessert
This is probably my favorite dessert. What could be better than a hot fudge sundae? It's also my go-to dessert when I have dinner guests. I keep a half gallon of vanilla ice cream in my freezer, then I can whip up some hot fudge sauce in a couple of minutes. Sometimes we elevate this dessert by adding brownies for a hot fudge brownie sundae! Could it get any better?
Enjoy!
Dianna
You Might Also Enjoy these other delicious desserts:
Gooey Butter Cake Ice Cream (Jeni's Spendid Ice Cream Copycat)
Cherry Ice Cream with Ganache Swirls - No Churn
Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Cake
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Hot Fudge Sauce
Ingredients
- ½ cup butter 1 cube
- 2 squares unsweetened baking chocolate 2 ounces
- ½ cup evaporated canned milk
- ¼ cup light corn syrup
- 2 cups sugar
- pinch of salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- Melt butter in sauce pan over low heat. Place chocolate squares on butter so they melts together. Add evaporated milk and corn syrup. Stir to combine. Add sugar and salt and stir to blend.
- Turn heat to medium and stir constantly until mixture comes to a rolling boil. Boil one minute, until soft ball stage (see notes), then remove sauce from heat.
- Add 1 teaspoon vanilla and stir. Serve warm over ice cream. Store in covered container in refrigerator up to one month.
Notes
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Originally published March 13, 2019
Eliza says
I almost texted one of you guys for this recipe until it occurred to me I might find it here on the blog. Thanks for sharing!