# Homemade Chocolate Sauce

This homemade chocolate sauce recipe is incredibly easy to make without any corn syrup or dairy and rivals anything you'll buy at the store.

- Total time: 5 min
- Cuisine: American
- Category: Sauce & Condiment
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 cup sugar
- 0.5 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
- pinch coarse salt
- 0.5 cup cold water
- 1.5 teaspoon vanilla

## Instructions

1. Add 1 cup of sugar to a cold pot.
2. Add half a cup of unsweetened cocoa powder to the pot.
3. Whisk the mixture until all the lumps are removed.
4. Add a pinch of coarse salt to the pot.
5. Add half a cup of cold water to the pot.
6. Turn on the heat to medium-medium high and bring it to a boil, making sure to continuously stir so that the cocoa powder gets completely dissolved into the water.
7. Once it starts boiling, reduce the heat to a gentle simmer and stir constantly for 30 seconds.
8. Remove the pot from the heat.
9. Add 1 1/2 teaspoons of vanilla to the pot.
10. Pour the chocolate sauce into a jar.

## Equipment

- pot
- whisk
- measuring cups
- jar

## Tips

- If you do not need this to be dairy-free, you could use whole milk and it would make it even creamier.
- If you wanted it to be extra rich and creamy, you could add in a little bit of butter.

## Source

- Original video: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1EMstqksbc/
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/e780adb0-a42d-495c-b341-c0aaab70e8d4
- Extracted: 2025-08-11

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