Chocolate Sauce - Homemade and tastes great!

I don't know about you, but I enjoy some chocolate sauce on my ice cream! I was talking to someone one day about making chocolate sauce and she said you don't make it you buy it... well I did some research as I always do and found this awesome recipe!

Homemade Chocolate Syrup

Ingredients:

2 Cups of Sugar ( Preferably from Organic)

1 Cup of Unsweetened Cocoa Powder (not dutch processed)

¼ Teaspoon of Salt (Kosher)

1 Cup of Water

3 Teaspoons of Vanilla ( You can reduce this if you like)

Instructions:

• In a 2 quart pot, combine the sugar and cocoa powder, stir together and get all the lumps out.
• Add the salt, then 1 cup of water.
• Mix well.
• Heat to a boil on medium heat.
• Continue to boil until the sauce thickens a bit, about 5 minutes. Stirring to keep it from overflowing.
• Remove from heat.
• Allow to cool to room temperature or around 100°F.
• Add vanilla to taste ( I almost prefer it without any vanilla).

Place into a bottle and refrigerate. (I use a catsup bottle I found at the 99 cent store – comes with a spout, but you can just use an old syrup bottle, that way no one knows it's homemade unless you tell them! LOL!

Keep in the fridge for up to 3 weeks.

Can be used to make Chocolate Milk,  ice cream topping, garnish a dessert dish, hot chocolate, pancakes and anywhere else you normally use chocolate syrup!

The cost of this syrup is about half the the store bought stuff and has a much better taste, without High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS)