Homemade Chocolate Syrup Recipe
I am a lover of all things chocolate. I often joke with my husband that my love language consists of anything chocolate. Because of my adoration for chocolate, I absolutely聽love trying new chocolaty treats. Perfect for drizzling over ice cream or mixing for hot chocolate, you’ve got to try this delicious Homemade Chocolate Syrup聽(from the book Great Moments in Chocolate History).
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Homemade Chocolate Syrup
Ingredients:
– 1 cup sugar
– 1/2 cup natural cocoa powder
– a dash of salt
– 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
– 3/4 cup water
Instructions:
1. In a saucepan, whisk together sugar, cocoa, and salt.
2. Gradually whisk in water to dissolve the cocoa mixture.
3. Over medium heat, bring to a boil stirring often.
4. Reduce to medium-low heat and simmer until chocolate sauce is reduced to about 1 1/4 cups.
5. Put chocolate syrup in a container and allow it to completely cool.
6. Store in a covered container for up to 3 weeks.
What a fun and delicious treat the entire family can enjoy. Some of my favorite ways my family chooses to enjoy this syrup is drizzled over brownies and ice cream, and mixed together with milk for hot chocolate. We also enjoy this syrup for dipping cinnamon gummy bears and fruit. The possibilities truly are endless.
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How wonderful this is. My son’s Love Hot Chocolate. I just love new ideas to old things. This is perfect for the winter coldness and the holidays.
My greatest love and weakness is chocolate. I love your homemade chocolate syrup!
I would love to try your Homemade Chocolate Syrup Recipe for sundaes and special desserts this holiday season. Thanks for sharing it.
I love chocolate in almost any form it comes especially dark chocolate.
I enjoy baking and love chocolate.
This book sounds really interesting!
Chocolate is one of my favorite things in the world, ut I really know very little about its history.
I usually end up making my own chocolate syrup. So much cheaper, so much tastier, and with no suspicious ingredients!
Looks delicious!
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I love Chocolate. What more is there to say? LOL I would love to win this. Baking time is coming up! Well, chocolate baking time is all year round for me..
I love chocolate and would love to learn the history of chocolate making.
So many goodies I could make with this chocolate!
I love the recipe for homemade chocolate syrup as the basis for hot cocoa. This looks easy and delicious.
Chocolate is something I’m passionate about, and it’s the time of year when it’s acceptable to drink it. Aaah.
I haven’t had homemade chocolate sauce since I was a kid. I’m going to have to try making yours, it looks so good.
I would love to make hot chocolate using American Heritage Chocolate
I always want to know how to make something from scratch (like your chocolate syrup) that we just automatically buy.
I love the idea of making your own homemade chocolate syrup.
I can’t imagine not loving chocolate!
I would like to try my own chocolate syrup. Many of the commercial brands contain HFCS which I try to avoid.
Oh yum! I will have to make me some of this syrup! I use it on a lot of things!
All I can really say is…hey, who doesn’t absolutely LOVE chocolate?!!
Now I want to make my own chocolate syrup!
I love making homemade chocolate sauces! It adds such a great flavor!
I love the idea of making homemade chocolate syrup! I never thought to make chocolate syrup like this before, I didn’t realize it was this easy.
I’d love to try this over some apple pie a la mode!
This recipe looks delicious and easy to make. It will be perfect for dessert on the weekend. My kids are going to love it on ice cream.
I have never made my own chocolate syrup before. It looks delicious. I will have to give this recipe a try.
more work of course than buying it from the store but I’ll take the REAL ingredients over the crap they put in the store bought syrup!
Oh my goodness, you had me at chocolate. I have such a soft space for chocolate and love adding syrup to everything from cakes to ice cream 馃檪
This is great! I’m glad to find this recipe now so that I can start making my own chocolate syrup. My girls love to use it in their milk. This will save some money too!
Oh my, I need to make this! I would love to make my own chocolate syrup!
Now this sounds perfect. I could use this with so many desserts! That chocolate is the real deal!
I’ve never made my own chocolate syrup before. I didn’t realize it was so easy.
I love chocolate syrup. I can’t wait to try my hand at making it for myself. Thanks for sharing this recipe.
A little more work than buying Hershey’s syrup, but looks fun!
Yum this could be very popular in my house. I will have to try this,I’ve never made my own before. It looks delicious!
I’ve never made home made chocolate syrup before. I’d love to give it a try one day.
I could sure go for some of that right now.. over a brownie and ice cream 馃檪
SOOOO when do you want me to come over to “test” this chocolate syrup? It looks really good!
I can see me using a lot of chocolate syrup this winter. It would go great over whipped cream on a hot chocolate. Thanks for the recipe.
That looks and sounds like a delicious chocolate syrup! It’s a recipe I will keep on hand for this holiday season! 馃檪
Ahh this looks really good! I love homemade chocolate.
I need to make homemade chocolate syrup, my family would be so happy!
dang did not know it really is that simple for some syrup.
If I’d known it was so straightforward to make chocolate syrup I would have started making my own years ago. Thank you for this recipe!
I love chocolate.