Chocolate Sauce

Have you ever found a recipe that you just had to make?  Then have you lost that recipe?  I pinned a recipe a few months ago for Homemade Chocolate Sauce,  I went to make it today and the page was gone.  I was devastated.  I couldn't believe it was gone, on the brink of tears I started looking for it everywhere.  After some searching I found it on facebook.  Thank goodness I found it on a canning group.  Those ladies sure take care of me!  Well back to the Chocolate Sauce, instead of buying it with all sorts of chemicals I'm intent on making my own.  Here is the recipe.  I have yet to make it but have rave reviews. 

Chocolate Sauce
by Karen...recipe from sbcanning.com

1-1/2 cup water
3 cups sugar
1-1/2 cup cocoa
1 Tbl vanilla
1/4 tsp kosher salt
2 Tbl lite corn syrup

In a med size pot over med heat, bring water and sugar to a boil. Whisk in cocoa, vanilla, salt, corn syrup. Whisk until all of the solids have been dissolved. Reduce the sauce for another 15 minutes until slightly thickened. Fill jars to 1/4 inch head space. Process in water bath 20 min.
WARNING: make sure you do it in a big enough pot because as it is cooking down, it actually cooks up and really expands and bubbles and burns your hand if not careful.
1 batch makes about 4-1/2 pint jars. I made a double batch and got 6-1/2 to 7. I made it with both the dutch process (which the recipe calls for) as well as the regular cocoa. The dutch process gave me a bit more and it is a bit more dark chocolaty. The reg is a bit more milk chocolaty.



After looking at this I'm already looking at way to tweak this and make it my own.  Look for it in the future. =)  ~ Elizabeth