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Lee Lee’s Famous Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream

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Lee Lee's chocolate sauce combines cocoa, sugar, butter, salt, water, and vanilla for a warm ice cream topping.

The mixture boils briefly before the vanilla is added off the heat. Sliced bananas and chopped walnuts are optional finishing touches.

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Before you start

Use a small saucepan. The mixture needs constant stirring as it comes to a boil.

The water amount is flexible: add enough to make the mixture stirrable.

Ingredient notes

  • Water: Use more or less as needed to make the cocoa mixture stirrable.
  • Vanilla extract: Add after removing the saucepan from the heat.

Lee Lee's Famous Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream recipe

AI illustration of chocolate sauce pouring from a spoon over ice cream in a white bowl, with a white pitcher of sauce behind it.

Lee Lee's Famous Chocolate Sauce for Ice Cream

A warm chocolate sauce with cocoa, butter, and vanilla for serving over ice cream.
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Prep Time 1 minute
Total Time 2 minutes
Course: Dessert
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 1 1/2-2 tablespoons butter
  • 1/4 cup water ( more or less, as needed to make a stirable consistency)
  • 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Method
 

  1. Combine sugar, cocoa, and salt in a small saucepan.
  2. Add enough water to make the mixture stirrable.
  3. Add butter to the cocoa mixture.
  4. Bring to a boil over medium high heat, stirring constantly.
  5. Allow to boil for 1 minute, stirring.
  6. Remove from heat.
  7. Add vanilla.
  8. Serve warm over ice cream.
  9. Add sliced bananas and chopped walnuts if you really want a treat!

Notes

Servings: 4-6

Tips for success

Keep stirring constantly while bringing the mixture to a boil.

Continue stirring during the 1 minute boil.

Remove the saucepan from the heat before adding vanilla.

What to serve with it

Serve the sauce warm over ice cream. Add sliced bananas and chopped walnuts if desired.

Servings: 4-6.

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