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Homemade Chocolate Syrup

Homemade Chocolate Syrup

Let’s be honest. We’ve all been there, late at night, fridge open and Hershey’s chocolate syrup squeeze bottle in hand. Shameful, but oh so delicious.

Now, imagine that the chocolate syrup isn’t chockfull of artificial flavors, preservatives and processed sugars, but simple, quality ingredients and a whole lotta love.

Easy Homemade Chocolate Syrup

The flavor in homemade chocolate syrup, especially when made with good quality cocoa powder (I recommend Valrhona), is much more intense than any store bought variety. It’s fantastic drizzled on everything from fresh fruits to desserts like my Croissant and Chocolate Bread Pudding, Cream Puffs, Tiramisu or Vanilla Crepes.

Homemade Chocolate Syrup Recipe

Have a little fun and try this velvety, rich chocolate syrup for yourself – or rather, for your next dessert – sometime! It’s decadent and delicious, and so satisfying to know that you can make this popular pantry staple at home with a handful of basic ingredients and just 5 minutes of your time!

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Homemade Chocolate Syrup

Yield: Makes 1 cup

Ingredients:

1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2 cup water
1 cup sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Directions:

In a small saucepan, combine cocoa powder, water, sugar and salt. Whisk until cocoa is dissolved. Boil for 3 minutes over medium heat. Be careful not to let it get too hot and boil over! Whisk in vanilla extract. Let cool.

The chocolate syrup will keep for several months in a squeeze bottle or glass jar in the refrigerator.

Enjoy!

Adapted from Small Notebook


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  3. This would be a fun recipe to make with kids to serve on their ice cream for a special family dessert. The easy recipes are the best, thanks for sharing a good one!

  5. Strawberries are about to be just perfect here…and I can’t wait to make this syrup to adorn a pint! Thank you for sharing sweet girl. Let’s get together soon for lunch. Have you heard of Hillside Farmacy? Maybe we can check it out?

  10. Love chocolate syrup drizzled over just about well, everything! Thanks for this recipe and especially for letting us know how long it will keep (not that it will last around here though)

  11. Where do you find that cocoa powder Georgia? I wonder if Whole Foods would have it? I always buy the gigantic container of Rodelle brand from Costco because I go through so much of it in my baking. It’s actually a really good quality one though. Nice and dark. This syrup would make even plain vanilla ice cream really special!

  13. This is something that my whole family (esp. kids and me? hee hee) can enjoy. Thanks to Valerie’s question I got more info on cocoa. I guess that’s the important ingredient so I should get high quality one! I feel a lot more comfortable if my kids use this rather than store bought brand for many reasons… :-)

  19. Oh I love this idea! And what a simple recipe – sometimes the recipes you see are so chock full of weird ingredients that it sort of defeats the point but this looks so good.

  21. Since I used to get in trouble for drinking that syrup when I was a kid, no doubt the homemade version is pretty addictive. I will have to whip up a small batch for milk and ice cream. It looks amazing. Glad you posted this one!

  22. the photos are gorgeous. and surprisingly not too unhealthy (sugar doesn’t count). where can i purchase the chocolate.. the grocery stores don’t carry the really good brands, I use Ghirardelli since that is all I can find. Should I try Whole Foods??
    Thanks!

  29. I happened upon your blog at the end of last year, and I just LOVE your recipes! Thanks for all the fabulous ideas – my house is a big fan of you!

  32. Your chocolate syrup definitely beats any seen in store – it is so perfectly warm and drippy and delicious :D

    Cheers
    Choc Chip Uru
    Latest: Double Nutella Cheesecake Brownies

  40. You can always tell a good homemade syrup because the consistency is so different from the corn-syrupy Hershey’s. This looks amazing!

  41. I always shut the fridge door before I started squeezing that heavenly chocolate syrup in my mouth!!! lol
    Great.. just what I need, a never ending supply of homemade chocolate syrup… I’m going to have to add an extra two miles to my morning runs!!

  49. This is a great recipe! thank you….so true about settling for the bottle of chocolate sometimes. I have been there. I will have to whip some of this up next time :)

  55. Hi, I made this tonight. Hot, it was just as you picture it above. But it cooled and got crystalized and really grainy. Is that right? The taste was still good when mixed in milk to make chocolate milk, I just wondered if I did something wrong.

    • Georgia — March 19th, 2013 @ 10:31 pm

      Sorry to hear you had trouble once it cooled! No, it doesn’t sound like you did anything wrong but just make sure you’re not using expired products.

  57. I made this last night using the Costco cocoa. I guess it’s Rodelle, whatever comes in the big round brown containor. I used a heaping 1/4 c of cocoa, and replaced a few tbsp with leftover brewed coffee. Yum!! Thickened up to a ‘hersheys’ syrup consistency after leaving it overnight in the fridge

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