chocolate sauce

[mizkit]

We were out of chocolate sauce and had vanilla ice cream, so I went in search of a quick and easy chocolate sauce recipe. Some ten or fifteen minutes later, Ted, who is pretty dubious of non-Hersheys chocolate sauces, said, “This is really pretty good!” off the sauce I’d made.

“Thanks,” I said. “I found a recipe, but it called for water and I

Comments

[deborahblakehps]

That's how I cook too. The recipe is just a place to start from... A gentle suggestion, if you will.

[bellinghman]

I totally agree.

Oh, OK, some recipes I'll go almost straight on. The first time. And then I'll start tweaking to see what matters and what can be changed, and before you know, it's something totally different and I have to write the new recipe down as the starting point I'll ignore next time.

[herefox]

Nice. I probably would have subbed a little of the milk with chambord or an orange liqueur but my friends expect most of my baking to involve a bit of alcohol, I'm sort of famous for it ;-)

[merlinofchaos]

Recipes on the internet are just to give us a place to start.

I personally very rarely actually follow internet recipes but they do give me really important data points for getting started!

[mikaela_l]

If you in crease the amount of butter and add 1 1/2 dl syrup, you get the swedish recipe for toffee. Nom. :)

[6_penny]

Perhaps add some rum ...