Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge Sauce

In a medium sauce pan whisk together cocoa, sugar, corn syrup and whipping cream. Once everything is all mixed together add 3 ounces of your dark chopped chocolate.

Turn on your heat to medium and stir with a spatula until your chocolate melts. Bring to a low boil and cook for 5 minutes stirring constantly and making sure to get into the corners and mix everything around. (You may need to turn down your heat a bit if it gets above a simmer.) Mixture will thicken up by the end of the 5 minutes.

Remove pan from heat and add in vanilla, butter and the rest of your chopped chocolate. Stir until all of the chocolate is melted and the mixture is smooth. Once the mixture has cooled a bit stir in your sea salt.

Store in the fridge for up to 1 week. The sauce with get almost solid when cold. Throw it in the microwave for 10-20 seconds before pouring it onto your ice cream or brownies or cookies or before eating it off the spoon.

You could add in some espresso powder or peppermint extract or raspberry. Really, you can customize this sauce any way you like.

Slightly adapted from Joy the Baker’s Mocha Hot Fudge Sauce. Enjoy!