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Chocolate milk is the perfect way to satiate a sweets craving. Up until recently, we’ve had the quintessential brown squeeze-bottle in the fridge next to the milk. Then my son asked, “Can’t we make homemade chocolate syrup?” It caught me off guard at first because I was so used to just buying the chocolate syrup, but then I thought about it. There is absolutely no reason we can’t make our own chocolate sauce. Even better, with the homemade chocolate sauce, we can control the quality of the ingredients and will know exactly what is in our sauce.
Homemade Chocolate Syrup
2 cups water
2 cups sugar
½ tsp kosher salt
1 cup cocoa powder
2 Tbsp vanilla
Combine the water, sugar, and salt in a saucepan. Bring the mixture to a boil, and hold it at a boil for 1 minutes. Drop the heat, and whisk in the cocoa powder. When the chocolate sauce is at a simmer, and the cocoa powder is fully combined, remove the mixture from the heat and stir in the vanilla. Allow your chocolate sauce to cool before storing in a canning jar or other airtight container placed in the fridge for up to 2 months.
Chocolate Syrup
Ingredients
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups sugar
- ½ tsp kosher salt
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 2 Tbsp vanilla
Instructions
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Combine the water, sugar, and salt in a sauce pan. Bring the mixture to a boil, and hold it at a boil for 1 minutes. Drop the heat, and whisk in the cocoa powder. When the chocolate sauce is at a simmer, and the cocoa powder is fully combined, remove the mixture from the heat and stir in the vanilla. Allow your chocolate sauce to cool before storing in a canning jar or other airtight container placed in the fridge for up to 2 months.
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Use your homemade chocolate sauce to top ice cream and make chocolate milk.
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This is so much better than that corn-syrup crap from the store! A great idea.
And that’s exactly why we started making it!
Stephanie,
Thank you for the simple chocolate syrup recipe. I will certainly try this out! 🙂
I hope you like it as much as we do!
Wow, it looks very good! And you’re sure about what’s in the syrup!!
Hugs,
Roberta
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That’s the best reason to make your own – you know exactly what is in there!
My husband would like this – Thanks for sharing at the What’s for Dinner party – hope to see you next week too. In the mean time, have a fabulous week ahead!
That looks so good!
My mom makes something similar for making homemade hot chocolate using hot cocoa instead of using the instant. Tastes so good! 🙂
~Lisa
It has been a while since I made homemade chocolate syrup. It is so good. Thank you for reminding me of that! Congratulations on the feature at Foodie Friday!
I love that your son came up with the idea! You have obviously made a great influence on him. I am featuring your post and recipe on this weeks OVER THE MOON LINK PARTY which goes live tonight SUNDAY at 5 pm central. Please stop by and check it out and link up again.
🙂 gwingal