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Chocolate sauce

This rich smooth chocolate sauce, with its full flavour, is one of the indispensable ingredients of profiteroles, but it can be used with many others desserts.

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Last modified on: February 21^th 2011

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For 500 g, you will need:

1 200 g dark chocolate
2 200 ml milk
3 40 g butter
4 40 ml liquid cream
5 40 g caster sugar
Total weight: 520 grams

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 10 min.

Break 200 g dark chocolate into small pieces, and melt in a bain-marie

Stage 2 - 7 min.

In a pan pour 200 ml milk and 40 ml liquid cream.

Bring to the boil on low heat.

Stage 3 - 7 min.

Add 40 g butter and 40 g caster sugar, mix well and bring back to the boil again.

Stage 4 - 2 min.

Pour in melted chocolate.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

Then over low heat, mix with a whisk or a maryse to get a smooth sauce.

Stage 6 - 3 min.

Bring to the boil one last time, it's ready.

Remarks

You can easily make this sauce in advance, and then reheat it: low heat, bain-marie or microwave oven. It's really delicious hot or warm.

This recipe is warmly dedicated to Eric, a great chocolate lover, to whom I promised it a (too) long time ago.

Keeping

Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.

Source

After G. Lenôtre.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,801 Kcal or 7,540 Kj	15 gr	175 gr	116 gr
90 %	6 %	16 %	18 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
346 Kcal or 1,449 Kj	3 gr	34 gr	22 gr
17 %	1 %	3 %	3 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk

How much will it cost?

For 500 g : 2.07 €

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This recipe uses (among others)

	Milk: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Hamburger buns, Chocolate cream, Crackers, Chocolate eclairs, Chocolate eclairs, ... All
	Dark chocolate: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chocolate muffins, Nanou's chocolate cake, Chocolate tart, Hot chocolate, Chocolate Chantilly , ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Eton mess, Sugar syrup, Lemon and lime cakes, Basic cake batter - the French way, Peach and verbena feuilleté, ... All
	Butter: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: How to prevent butter burning during cooking, Leek and potato soup, Colcannon, Cajun pulled pork, Sautéed Green Vegetables in pan, ... All

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If it's cocoa powder, you need to add some butter with, otherwise it could be too dry.
Posted by jh july 31^th 2020 at 09:51 (n° 2)
Can I use chocolate powder instead of bars.
Posted by Jane july 31^th 2020 at 08:49 (n° 1)

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