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5-minute Hot Fudge Sauce has just three ingredients and is perfect to use all summer long! This simple recipe tastes like melted fudge and you can reheat leftovers to thin!
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Easy Hot Fudge Recipe
If there is one thing I want all summer long it’s ice cream!! I crave it in summer, probably because it’s so hot here in Sacramento. (Well…let’s be honest. I crave ice cream all the time because it’s so darn good!)
Recently Jordan had some friends over and they wanted ice cream sundaes. We had the ice cream covered but, to my dismay, we were out of chocolate sauce. Now, as a food blogger, I took this as a huge fail: I always have all the sauces on hand. I have chocolate sauce when I make pie and need a drizzle and caramel sauce for when I’m making something gooey. So how in the WORLD was I out of ALL OF THEM at once?! #momfail #bloggerfail
So I did what a good blogger does in these situations: I made my own hot fudge sauce. And, dare I say, it’s BETTER than the kind you buy?
5-minute hot fudge sauce has just 3 ingredients and is perfect for all your ice cream sundaes!
What’s the difference between hot fudge and chocolate sauce?
It’s so easy to buy hot fudge and chocolate sauce that making it homemade has to be easy or why bother, right? Well, I got you covered because this hot fudge recipe is the BEST.
Honestly, I’ve always wondered this! The main difference is the texture. Hot fudge is thicker and more rich while chocolate sauce is thinner and more pourable. Chocolate sauce stays sauce in the refrigerator, while hot fudge gets cold and thick…like fudge.
And, let me tell you, my hot fudge sauce recipe tastes like melted fudge! It’s PERFECT to put on top of your favorite O Organics ice cream!
3 Ingredients Needed
Some recipes are for hot fudge with cocoa powder, but this recipe uses sweetened condensed milk! There are only three total ingredients:
- Chocolate Chips – use your favorite flavor, but use a good brand! We love Trader Joe’s, Guittard, and Guirradelli.
- Sweetened Condensed Milk
- Butter – unsalted or salted. The butter might seem like an odd ingredient, but it’s necessary. Without it the hot fudge will seize and not act properly, so don’t skip it.
How to make hot fudge
- Add sweetened condensed milk and chocolate chips to a saucepan. Heat over medium heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate chips are melted.
- Remove from heat and stir in butter. Stir until butter is melted.
- Place hot fudge in a jar. Use while hot.
Favorite Recipes using liquid fudge:
- Drizzle it on peanut butter dip
- Make Hula Pie with it
- Pour it over Peanut Butter Ice Cream Brownies
5-minute Hot Fudge Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 (14 ounce) can (396g) sweetened condensed milk
- 1 cup (170g) semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons (28g) unsalted butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Instructions
- Add sweetened condensed milk and chocolate chips to a saucepan. Heat over medium heat, stirring constantly, until chocolate chips are melted.
- Remove from heat and stir in butter and vanilla. Stir until butter is melted.
- Place hot fudge in a jar. Use while hot.
- Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator for up to 2 weeks. To reheat: place jar in microwave and heat in 30 second increments, stirring between each, until melted and smooth.
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Recipe Notes
- This is a very thick sauce – the hotter it is the thinner, but it’s hot fudge, not chocolate sauce.
- You can use salted or unsalted butter.
- Leftovers – store in an airtight container in the refrigerator. It will thicken and harden as it cools so heat to thin.
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Last Updated on April 29, 2023
it’s OK! It does not taste like fudge, it tastes like chocolate chips. Turns out nice and creamy though and still tastes good on ice cream
I was in a pinch, making an ice cream cake for my grand daughter’s b-day, didn’t have hot fudge sauce and needed it fast, lol! I found this and it was perfect! Tasted delicious and took just a few minutes and ready to go!
Thanks for posting this quick and easy recipe💕😁
Yummy! Quick and easy to make.
Looks delicious,similar o my Moms many moons ago.I will make it for Christmas gifts along with cookies!!!
Quick, easy and yummy.
Thanx
I made this for a party… re-heated it a few nights later for another party and STILL had some left to freeze ( I quadrupled the recipe!). It was super easy to make, which is why I tried it. Store-bought fudge has so much crap in it and I just couldn’t bring myself to buy it. This has like 4 ingredients and is SO EASY. I actually don’t like sweets that much, but this is gooey and delicious. Everyone LOVED IT at both parties-kids AND adults. I made it with organic ingredients and DARK bittersweet chocolate chips. Drool-worthy. I never take dessert to potlucks, but this will be my go-to from now on!
Perfect!
Can you freeze hot fudge.I know then it would be frozen fudge.
Yes you can freeze this.
How and in what type of container do you freeze and unfreeze this Hot Fudge?
I would freeze it in a plastic container.
10/10. So easy and simple. Need to stir the ENTIRE time, got a good arm workout but went away for a minute and burned my saucepan. That one is on me though!
Tried this recipe over many others I came by. Because of the simplicity.
I used a 300ml can of sweetened condensed milk not quite 14oz and I think that’s why it taste more like the chocolate chips I used and not so much “fudge”
It is chewy I like that and the kids like that.
Think I will try a different recipe next time however. No fault too the OP I think it’s a good sauce just not quite what I was craving.
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