Inside: Here is the best hot fudge sauce recipe to make with your grandkids or kids. It’s easy to make and tastes delicious. Try it over vanilla ice cream, right out of the jar, or if you want an extra treat—dip your favorite chocolate chip cookies into the fudgy sauce when it’s hot. Yum!
The Best Hot Fudge Sauce Recipe
Are you a chocoholic? By definition, it’s someone who is addicted to or excessively fond of chocolate. I fit into the category of being a chocoholic, but I’m not too worried–after all, there are worse things to be addicted to–right?
I fully embrace my love of everything chocolate—bon-bons, donuts, cheesecake, cookies, candy, cake—anything! And each day, I religiously count out 16 chocolate chips (I count calories) to satisfy my daily need for this rich brown substance.
Years ago, (in the 1980s) I took cooking classes in Sherman Oaks, California from Marlene Sorosky. I think she loves chocolate as much as I do because many of her classes included a chocolate dessert. And when they did, I quickly signed up.
This recipe was one she made in class. It’s the best hot fudge sauce recipe you will ever make. And the easiest.
If you are interested in other recipes she’s created, her cookbooks are out-of-print, but are still available on Amazon.
My favorites: (none of these books contain the best hot fudge sauce recipe)
- Cookery for Entertaining by Marlene Sorosky
- Marlene Sorosky’s Year-Round Holiday Cookbook
- The Dessert Lover’s Cookbook by Marlene Sorosky
Ways to Use the Best Hot Fudge Sauce Recipe
There are many ways to use this fudge sauce–use it as a dip for your favorite chocolate chips cookies; as a fudge sauce over ice cream or under ice cream as a garnish and even as a frosting on cupcakes
There are many ways you can use this chocolate fudge sauce:
- warm over vanilla & chocolate ice cream
- as a garnish underneath ice cream (stripe the dish you are putting it on)
- when cold from the refrigerator, it can be used as a frosting on cupcakes
However, to create the most delectable chocolate fix, make a batch of my chocolate chip cookies and dip them in this scrumptious hot fudge sauce. Make sure both the sauce and cookies are hot.
It’s love at first bite! Guaranteed!
Click here for: The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies Ever. I’ve included recipes for both high and at-elevations and lots of tips for parents and grandparents when making these with your kids/grandkids. Yes, elevation does make a difference if you want a cookie that looks professionally baked. Anything over 2,000 feet is considered high-elevation.
Wrapping & Giving the Best Hot Fudge Sauce Recipe
I collect antique handkerchiefs and antique tea napkins, and I love to wrap one around a jar of this fudge sauce. It makes a unique and very feminine gift. Include warm chocolate chip cookies for dipping.
I have made this hot fudge sauce recipe for friends, family, relatives, or anyone hankering for a chocolate fix. It’s easy to make; looks beautiful in jars wrapped with an antique handkerchief or a simple muslin bow. It can be given as a gift for Valentine’s Day, Christmas, birthdays, anniversaries, or any other holiday or occasion that calls for chocolate.
It tastes amazing poured hot over vanilla ice cream or scooped cold right out of the refrigerator.
Best Hot Fudge Sauce Recipe
Here is the recipe and easy-to-follow picture tutorials:
Easy steps to making the best hot fudge sauce recipe.
- 5 one-ounce squares of bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate
- ½ cup of butter (4 oz)
- 1-pound powdered sugar (3 ½ cups)
- 1 large can evaporated milk (12 fluid ounces)
- 1 ½ teaspoon vanilla
- Melt chocolate and butter.
- Remove from heat
- Add powdered sugar and milk. Blend well
- Cook over the stove for 8 minutes; stirring constantly
- Remove from heat and add vanilla
- Pour into three 8-ounce glass jars or four 4-ounce glass jars
- Once cool, refrigerate.
- Label: Reheat very slowly. It may be stored for 1 month in the refrigerator
- Makes about 3 cups of sauce.
Children’s Books About Chocolate
If you are making this recipe with your grandkids or kids, add to the fun and read these fun books about chocolate!
- Smart About Chocolate: A Sweet History by Sandra Markle
- Make it: Chocolate by Madison Spielman
- The Cookie Loved ‘Round the World: The Story of the Chocolate Chip Cookie by Kathleen Teahan
- Do Frogs Drink Hot Chocolate? by Kanar and John Martz
- Love Monster and the Last Chocolate by Rachel Bright
- The Story of Chocolate by C. J. Polin
Here are more blogs that include recipes you can make with your grandkids or kids:
- Best Crockpot Apple Butter for Grandkids to Make in the Kitchen
- Best Black Bean Soup with Healthy Smart Kids in the Kitchen
- How to Make the Best Healthy Summer Salad with Your Kids
Do you have a favorite hot fudge sauce recipe that you consider the best? Please comment in the section below.
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Hello Sharlene,
Thank you for posting this recipe. It sounds very good.
Would you please update the recipe with a measurement of the butter (in tablespoons, ounces / grams, fractions of a pound)?
A ‘cube’ of butter may once have been a recognized amount, but in 2022 butter is commonly sold in one pound packages of 1/2 cup ‘sticks’.
I hope you will update this recipe so that can make what sounds like a wonderful recipe.
Best wishes and kind regards for your consideration of my request.
Terry Day, Hampton, Virginia 05/02/2022
Thank you, Terry! You are so right! I changed it to 1/2 cup or 4 oz. Hope that helps and thank you again for your valuable input. As you can tell, I’ve been cooking & baking for a lot of years and probably assume too much.
I am a grandmother who has just witnessed my first grandson’s reaction to sugar in birthday cake. I witnessed a four year old’s frustration and tears because he can’t control his behaviour like he wants. “I can’t make my brain work right”. How much clearer can we say what sugar does to his brain.
So after reading this recipe for hot fudge topping, I ask -what makes this topping better? Isn’t powdered sugar still sugar? I don’t think I could give this to my grandson?
Where can I go for recipes for my beautiful grandson?
Thank you for your insightful comments–you sound like an amazing and caring grandmother! Sugar affects children (and adults) differently. Clearly, your little grandson has a strong reaction to sugar. And you are right–powdered sugar and granulated sugar are all still sugar. Some of my grandkids have the same issues with sugar–so I choose different recipes for them to make when they are visiting. Also, when we’ve made the fudge sauce–I give them apples to dip in it but they barely dip their apples in the sauce. Instinctively, they know they need to be careful. If you make the fudge sauce with your grandson–give him 1/2 teaspoon of the sauce with some apples. That way he can enjoy a small part without experiencing a sugar-rush. If you go to my nutrition section, I’ve written a blog all about the issues with sugar. Thank you again for your comments! Appreciate it!
My sweet tooth is in heaven just reading this post. I need to make this recipe ASAP. Lucky for me I have everything on hand. Oh, how I wish I was one of your family members so you could spoil me with all your fun activities and treats!
You are too kind, Tiffany! I know what a great cook you are so you’ve probably made something similar to this fudge sauce. It’s super easy to make and thankfully all my grandkids love chocolate as much as I do. Thanks for your comments and support!