Chocolate sauce

A pourable chocolate sauce made from chocolate or cocoa with cream, milk or water and sugar, served warm over ice cream and desserts.

Chocolate sauce: A small pitcher of warm, glossy chocolate sauce being poured over a scoop of vanilla ice cream
  • Fillings, creams, frostings and sauces

Also called: hot fudge

A simple sauce is chopped chocolate melted into hot cream, a looser version of ganache. Hot fudge sauce is thicker and glossier, cooked with butter, sugar and often corn syrup, and firms up when it hits cold ice cream.

Cocoa-based sauces made with water and sugar are lighter and stay pourable when cold.

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Written by VanillaGoods in our own words from these sources. Last reviewed October 15, 2026.

  1. Chocolate sauce (Q599901), Wikidata