Easy Homemade Hot Fudge Sauce

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Easy homemade hot fudge sauce comes together in minutes with ingredients you probably have on hand.  It is the perfect ice cream topping, but is also great drizzled over other desserts.

This hot fudge sauce only takes just 4 ingredients and a few minutes to make.  You can be drizzling it over a bowl of ice cream in ten minutes and you most likely have everything you need to make it in your house already. 

We love using it to make ice cream sundaes, but really you could drizzle it over anything your heart desires.  No bake peanut butter pie and baked peanut butter pie are two of our favorites.

It’s hard to go wrong with chocolate and peanut butter, but you can use it on almost any sweet treat. Make your hot fudge dreams come true!

The Difference Between Chocolate Syrup and Hot Fudge

I have a confession to make.  I don’t like chocolate syrup.  

My husband loves the stuff.  He puts it in his milk and sometimes in his coffee.

He adds it to his smoothies (nothing says health food like simple syrup and chocolate syrup as regular ingredients in your smoothies!)  He likes it on ice cream too.

I just can’t like the stuff. I do, however, LOVE hot fudge.

They are not even close to the same thing.  One is watery and blah and the other is rich and smooth and luscious and wonderful.  Not that I feel strongly about it or anything.

Realistically the difference is chocolate sauce stays liquid and pourable when it is cold. Hot fudge is thicker and will become almost solid in the refrigerator.

Hot fudge needs to be warm to be drizzled and it get a thick fudgy texture as it cools.

Why This Recipe is Perfect

This is one of those recipes you should just memorize.  It is so easy, comes together quickly and is made from pantry staples.

If you have a surprise visitor, you can impress them by whipping up a batch and drizzling it over Ice Cream Recipes.  There isn’t much better!

This would also make a great icing drizzled over a bundt cake.  It is also tasty licked off fingers, or spoons, or spatulas or the whisk…

But one of our favorite ways to enjoy it is with peanut butter pie. Just look how good that looks!

This recipe started as a fudge icing recipe that my aunt Marlene taught me when I was in elementary school. She used it over rice krispie treats and brownies.

I made a minor adjustment to make it a sauce instead of an icing. Now it is perfect for drizzling over all the things!

See, easy!  It is also forgiving.  You should try it!

Ice Cream Recipes to Serve With Your Hot Fudge

To continue the theme of peanut butter and chocolate, you can make peanut butter chocolate chip no churn ice cream. It is creamy with a great peanut butter flavor and is perfect with hot fudge.

Hot chocolate ice cream is another treat that is perfect with a little fudge. It uses hot chocolate mix powder in the base, so we recommend adding some mini marshmallows for a super decadent themed treat.

Of course homemade vanilla ice cream is a classic base for a sundae. It really lets the gooey fudge shine, add a brownie for an extra special treat.

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