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Homemade Hot Fudge in 99 seconds
I’ll never buy hot fudge in a jar again. Making your own from scratch is ridiculously simple to make and less expensive than a gourmet jar of hot fudge.
Since this is actually a recipe for chocolate ganache, you will be able to use it for all kinds of things. You can refrigerate it, scoop it out, and roll it in cocoa powder to make truffles. You can pour it over a cake for a flawlessly glossy icing. You can refrigerate it in a cake pan and slice it for the most sinful chocolate cake you’ve ever had—Endless possibilities!
Homemade Hot Fudge
1/2 cup heavy cream
1 1/4 cups best quality chocolate chips (I used 3/4 cup semisweet and 1/2 cup milk chocolate—Guittard or Ghiradelli work best)
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
1. In a microwave safe bowl, heat cream to almost boiling, about 60 seconds. Pour in chocolate chips and vanilla. Allow to rest for 35 seconds, or long enough for the chips to start melting. Whisk until chocolate is smooth and glossy.
2. Serve over ice cream immediately, or refrigerate for later. To reheat, microwave on high for 10* seconds at time, stirring after each interval until ganache is smooth wand shiny again.
*The original post said to reheat in 20 second intervals, but I am afraid that might be too long for some microwaves. Sorry if there was any scorched ganache out there.
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Jackie commented on Jul 17 10 at 4:35 amI never thought of using ganache as a hot fudge topping. The one I used (and that is sitting in the fridge right now) is a bit more involved but not nearly as versatile as ganache is. Great idea!
niknite commented on Jul 17 10 at 11:43 amCan it dance!
Corrine commented on Jul 17 10 at 11:53 amI like to melt chocolate down, mix in nuts, rice krispies, peanut butter etc and pour a thin layer over ice cream. It creates a nummy shell just like .. well.. Shell! But minus all the weird ingredients.
hannah {thepastrykook} commented on Jul 17 10 at 11:59 amgreat! i have leftover heavy cream sitting in the fridge. :D
LogicalMama commented on Jul 17 10 at 2:53 pma family member that went to the Culinary Institute’s baking program told me that ganache is the best fudge!!
Kelsey{itsybitsyfoodies} commented on Jul 17 10 at 3:47 pmThis looks great. And you got me at 99 seconds! Can’t wait to try it.
kcmommie commented on Jul 20 10 at 12:05 pmYum! Could probably substitute heavy cream for half cream half skim. I’m on a diet. :)
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Betsy commented on Jul 21 10 at 3:30 pmPretty sure that the skim won’t make a lick of difference on the diet, stick with cream and pour a tiny bit less.
FoodDude commented on Jul 21 10 at 6:29 pmThat is a pretty cool trick. I’ll have to keep that in mind next time I’m whipping up some hot fudge.
Oh, and if you’re on a diet, substituting half-skim is not going to make this recipe magically healthy. Hell, if you’re on a diet you should probably stay away from chocolate in general.
Jaime (sophistimom) commented on Jul 23 10 at 12:29 amKCMOMMIE—I don’t know if you can combine the skim milk in this recipe and have it turn out the same. But I suppose you could try it. I would have sided with Betsy and Food Dude on this question, but as I just polished off a full rack of barbecued ribs with my two sons at a restaurant this evening, I figure any reduction of calories is a good idea, at this point.
cheryl commented on Jul 23 10 at 2:19 pmOMGosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is wonderful. Thx.
Pamela99 commented on Jul 24 10 at 11:28 amThat hot fudge sauce looks fantastic. I wouldn’t think twice about calories with that sauce.
Emma commented on Jul 28 10 at 7:12 amnice stuff….I love it….
mary commented on Jul 29 10 at 1:24 pmSounds like fabulous calories to me!! Yum,yum.
Waffles commented on Jul 29 10 at 7:19 pmIt’s actually more like “in half an hour”, because I’d have to drive to the store and buy some heavy whipping cream. I mean, who keeps that in their fridge, honestly?
judy commented on Aug 02 10 at 1:18 amas you point out, this is not hot fudge, it’s ganache. fudge has a sugar component that ganache does not. and NO, don’t even think of trying this with regular fluid skim milk, unless you want to ruin your chocolate. evaporated skim milk might work, though.
drstenso commented on Aug 13 10 at 6:21 pmI’ve got 99 seconds but a hot fudge ain’t one
thatisreallygood commented on Aug 14 10 at 9:08 amNice, Nice, Nice! Sounds like I need to go get some ice cream today!
Erin commented on Sep 25 10 at 12:05 amFirst off, hot fudge sauce is not anywhere near the same thing as ganache. Secondly, if you’re going to suggest using a specific brand of ingredient, you should spell it properly. It’s GhiraRdelli, not Ghiradelli.
Naomi commented on Sep 29 11 at 7:17 pmI tried this with semi sweet hershey chocolate chips and it came out very nice…..I would have just added powdered sugar to make it sweeter but I was adding it to a very sweet ice cream pie so it was perfect as is!
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