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Hot Fudge Sauce

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Photo by Chelsea Kyle

Try this with Ultimate Banana Split Pie (page 133), Crunchy Ice Cream Pie (page 143), S’mores Delight Pie (page 145), and Candyland Pie (page 137).

Recipe information

  • Yield

    Makes 4 cups sauce

Ingredients

1 cup sugar
3 cups heavy cream
1/4 cup light corn syrup
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
4 tablespoons (1/2 stick) salted butter
1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

Preparation

  1. Step 1

    In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, heavy cream, corn syrup, chocolate, and butter over medium-high heat and bring the mixture to a boil. Keep the pan over heat, whisking constantly for about 5 minutes, or until the sauce begins to bubble and looks as though it is separating. Remove the sauce from the heat and add the vanilla. Transfer fudge sauce to a dish or container and allow to cool a bit before placing it in the refrigerator. Chill the sauce until it thickens, for at least 5 hours.

    Step 2

    Hot Fudge Sauce can be kept refrigerated in an airtight container for approximately 2 weeks.

Cover of the cookbook Perfect Pies by Michele Stuart, featuring a blackberry key lime pie.
From Perfect Pies: The Best Sweet and Savory Recipes From America’s Pie Baking Champion © 2011 by Michele Stuart. Reprinted with permission by Ballantine Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Buy the full book from Penguin Random House, Amazon, or Bookshop.
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