Recipes for Readers – Hot Fudge Sauce from Molly MacRae

 

Some people scream for ice cream. Some people scream in mysteries and thrillers. Some people do both, and with this easy recipe for hot fudge sauce and a copy of Fatal Fudge Swirl by Meri Allen, you can too.   

Hot Fudge Sauce

Makes a shy 2 cups

Ingredients

1/2 cup whole milk

1/2 cup white sugar

1/8 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

6 tablespoons unsalted butter

1 teaspoon vanilla extract

2 ounces unsweetened baker’s chocolate, chopped

 

Directions

Combine milk, sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Stir slowly until mixture begins to simmer.

Stir in cocoa powder until smooth. Add butter and vanilla. Stir slowly until butter is melted.

Add baker’s chocolate. Stir slowly until melted.

Serve warm over your choice of ice cream while reading Fatal Fudge Swirl, book 3 in Meri Allen’s Ice Cream Shop Mystery series. 

Fatal Fudge Swirl is a delicious three scoop confection: Scoop 1) Residents of Penniman, Connecticut, are preparing for their weekend-long Halloween Happenings celebration. Scoop 2) Excitement is buzzing because a romantic comedy is being filmed on the town green. Scoop 3) A domineering socialite is planning her lavish Halloween-themed wedding—and she ends up dead. Can Riley Rhodes, manager of the Udderly Delicious Ice Cream Shop (and former CIA librarian and amateur sleuth), unmask the murderer? You might need another bowl of ice cream while you keep reading the book to find out.

Store the fudge sauce in the refrigerator for up to a week or freeze it for up to three months.

Reheat the sauce by zapping it for 15 second increments in the microwave, stirring between zaps to prevent burning, until heated through.