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.
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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!
Storage
This recipe makes about 2 cups of hot fudge, so you will likely have some left. Store it in an airtight container, I like using small glass jars, in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. Warm it up in the microwave or over low heat on the stove before using.
Hot Fudge Sauce
Ingredients
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup milk
- ½ cup butter
Instructions
- In a medium sauce pan, whisk together 1 cup granulated sugar and ¼ cup cocoa powder to make sure there aren't any lumps.
- Add ½ cup milk and ½ cup butter. Cook over medium-low heat until the butter melts.
- Turn up the heat to medium and continue to cook until it comes to a hard boil.
- Boil for 2-3 minutes, stirring frequently.
- Remove from heat and allow to cool some before serving.
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Made it!!! It’s delicious!!!!
Yay! Thank you!
Is this hot fudge chewy or more liquidy I get a hot fudge sundae locally and their hot fudge is the best because it isn’t liquidy or runny it sets up when it hits the-ice cream. Not like magic shell though.
It sets kind of chewy as it cools, but it doesn’t usually set quite as quickly as you are describing. It might be as easy as having it barely warm when you put it on, or cooking it down a little bit more. I’ll have to experiment some!
Hello! Thanks for charing with us your recipe! Does it get thick? I wanted to use to make a twix ice cream. I would like to incorporate that fudge with, caramel sauce and toffe sauce. Do you think that i can use this recipe or do you have any other?
That sounds delicious! It does get thick. When it’s cold, it is pretty solid. I think it would be really tasty swirled in an ice cream.
Simple and delicious. I added a touch of super fine espresso and salt but only because I used unsalted butter. Thank you for this. No more store bought junk for me.
Oooh, the espresso sounds amazing! I am glad you liked it.
YUM! I want to make ice cream this weekend, so I'll have to make sure and make this to go with! And… I'm going to run the chocolate syrup in the coffee concept by my husband. Interested to see what he thinks of that!
You'll have to let me know what he says!
Does this have to be refrigerated? I'm planning on making an ice cream baskets for gifts and won't be refrigerated until unwrapped.
Due to the dairy, I'd be worried about leaving it out for too long. I normally store mine in the refrigerator.
Can I store in the fridge? If so, for how long?
Yes you can! I made another batch last week knowing I wanted to use some on ice cream then and the rest to drizzle on a fun cake this weekend. It kept perfectly. (Usually it doesn't last that long around here!) It will solidify in the cold though, so just heat it up 15-20 seconds at a time in the microwave stirring between until it is smooth and stirrable again. Enjoy!
I'm with you, I love hot fudge!! so easy to make Thanks 🙂
It is the best!! Thanks, Sam!