Desserts and sweets are something that both adults and children love. Ice cream, cakes, pies and fruit salads cannot leave anyone indifferent. But no matter how delicious a pie or dessert is, it will be even better if you top it with chocolate syrup. This ingredient not only improves the taste of any dish, but also gives it an unforgettable appearance. With the help of chocolate syrup, you can create a very tasty and beautiful dessert even at home. The syrup you make yourself will be even tastier, and its quality will not raise any doubts in your mind.
Homemade chocolate syrup
We will tell you how to make chocolate syrup that can be stored in the refrigerator for 3-4 months, and at the same time its preparation will cost you much less than buying ready-made syrup in the store.
Ingredients:
- cocoa powder - half a cup;
- water – 1 cup;
- sugar – 2 cups;
- salt – 1/8 teaspoon;
- vanillin – 1/4 teaspoon.
Preparation
Mix cocoa with water, put on fire and heat, stirring constantly, until cocoa dissolves. Add sugar to it and boil your syrup over low heat for 3 minutes, but be careful not to overheat. Then add vanillin and salt to the syrup. Let it cool and pour into a clean glass bottle.
The syrup prepared according to this recipe will be very rich and is perfect not only for decorating desserts, but also as a filler for milk. Add just one teaspoon to a glass of warm milk and get a chocolate drink.
Chocolate syrup - recipe
If you prefer chocolate over cocoa powder, we will share a method on how to make dark chocolate syrup.
Ingredients:
Preparation
Pour the sugar into a saucepan, add water and cook over low heat until it dissolves. Grate the chocolate and add to the syrup. Mix everything and cook for 15 minutes, stirring all the time. Cool the finished syrup, pour into a glass container and store in a cool place.
Adults and children love chocolate syrup. It is used as an independent treat, as well as for preparing a variety of dishes. Desserts with chocolate syrup look like they come from a restaurant. And it is prepared easily and simply. We invite you to learn how to make chocolate syrup at home.
Ingredients
Water 300 milliliters Cocoa powder 150 grams Sugar 600 grams Vanillin 1 sachet Salt 1 pinch
- Number of servings: 6
- Cooking time: 10 minutes
Making chocolate syrup at home
The easiest way to make chocolate syrup is from cocoa powder. This sweetness can be stored in the refrigerator for more than two months. Although usually the chocolate syrup runs out much earlier.
To prepare you will need:
Water – 300 ml;
Cocoa powder – 150 g;
Sugar – 600 g;
Vanillin – 1 sachet;
To prepare the dessert: mix cocoa powder with water and place over low heat. Do not forget to constantly stir the mixture so that it does not burn. When the cocoa has dissolved, add sugar, vanillin and salt. Keep the future syrup on the stove for 3-5 minutes. After this time, remove the mixture from the heat and cool. Store chocolate syrup in the refrigerator.
Chocolate syrup recipe without cocoa powder
You can make syrup directly from dark chocolate. If you are not a fan of cocoa powder, then this recipe is for you.
Ingredients for chocolate syrup:
Chocolate at least 75% cocoa powder – 1 bar (80–90 g);
Sugar – 600 g;
Water – 350 ml.
The dark chocolate syrup recipe is quite simple. First, mix sugar and water and place the mixture over low heat. When the syrup boils, add the pre-grated chocolate to it. Cook the mixture for 10–15 minutes. Once the chocolate syrup has cooled, pour it into a clean container and place it in the refrigerator.
You can use this recipe to make chocolate sauce. To do this, just replace the water with milk or cream. Either way, syrup made from chocolate or cocoa powder is rich, sweet and flavorful.
Desserts with chocolate syrup
Chocolate syrup can be used to make any desserts. It is added to cakes and cookies. But most often the syrup serves as an addition to ice cream, pancakes and curd desserts. A dish seasoned with this sauce acquires a chocolate flavor and looks original.
If you want to please your children or make them drink milk, prepare a chocolate drink for them. It will retain useful substances. Just add a couple of spoons of chocolate syrup to a glass of milk. The child should like it.
Now you know how to make chocolate syrup at home. This sweetness is prepared quickly, is stored for a long time and is suitable for any desserts.
What could be tastier than a serving of ice cream topped with chocolate sauce! But unfortunately, the store-bought topping does not have a healthy composition. However, chocolate syrup can be prepared at home without adding preservatives or flavor enhancers. Recipes with cocoa are presented in our article. Here we will show you how to prepare sauce from a chocolate bar and syrup from instant coffee with the addition of cocoa.
Chocolate syrup for ice cream
Chocolate syrup perfectly complements the taste of any sweet dish: from fruit salad to gourmet whipped cream dessert. They can also be used to decorate cakes, pastries and other confectionery products. According to the traditional recipe, chocolate syrup is made from cocoa. But many housewives showed their imagination here too, thanks to which new options for aromatic chocolate-flavored topping appeared.
You can learn how to prepare chocolate syrup based on cocoa powder from the following step-by-step instructions:
- Sift good quality cocoa powder (70 g) to remove all lumps.
- Pour a glass of water (240 ml) into a non-stick saucepan and pour in the sifted cocoa.
- Place the saucepan on the fire and bring the water and cocoa to a boil.
- As soon as the mixture boils, pour sugar (300 g) into a saucepan, add a pinch of salt and vanillin (1 teaspoon).
- Cook the cocoa for 3 minutes until the sugar has dissolved and the mixture begins to thicken.
- Pour the syrup from the saucepan into a suitable container.
The chocolate topping can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.
Chocolate cocoa syrup recipe
To prepare thick chocolate syrup from cocoa, starch is added to it. This does not affect the taste of the dish in any way.
Chocolate syrup is prepared step by step as follows:
- Mix cocoa (65 g), powdered sugar 100 g, starch (1 heaped teaspoon), and a pinch of salt in a saucepan.
- All ingredients are mixed and filled with water (250 ml).
- The saucepan is placed over medium heat. Its contents are brought to a boil and cooked for another 2 minutes.
- As soon as the syrup begins to thicken, remove it from the heat and add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract to the chocolate mass.
- The finished syrup is poured into a jar, cooled and stored in the refrigerator. From the specified amount of ingredients, 300 ml of syrup is obtained.
Chocolate syrup with coffee flavor
This rich, moderately thick syrup has chocolate as its main taste, but it is very subtly offset by the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and vanilla. Chocolate syrup according to this recipe is prepared in the following sequence:
- In a thick-bottomed saucepan, thoroughly mix the dry ingredients: cocoa (2 tablespoons), brown sugar (300 g), salt (0.5 teaspoon).
- Pour water (50 ml), brewed coffee (150 ml), (1 tbsp) into the dry mass.
- Mix all the ingredients together and lastly add a little milk chocolate (25 g).
- Place the saucepan on the fire and bring the mixture to a boil. Keep stirring and make sure the sauce doesn't burn.
- 2 minutes after boiling, the finished chocolate syrup can be removed from the heat. Immediately after this, it must be poured into a clean jar and cooled.
This topping can be stored in a sterile container for several weeks. If after some time it thickens, it can be easily melted in a water bath.
Chocolate syrup from a chocolate bar
To prepare chocolate syrup, you first need to boil the sugar syrup. To do this, pour water (100 ml) into a saucepan and add 3 tablespoons of sugar to it. When it dissolves, remove the saucepan from the heat. But that’s not all, because we need to learn how to make chocolate syrup. To prepare it, add 150 g of chocolate broken into pieces to the sugar syrup, and then cut into pieces butter (25 g). When the mass becomes glossy and homogeneous, you can add cream (50 ml) and vanilla extract (1 teaspoon). The main disadvantage of this sauce is that it thickens very quickly. Therefore, to serve it next time, you will have to heat it in a water bath.
Chocolate syrup: recipe for soaking sponge cake
Chocolate syrup can be used not only to decorate and improve the taste of desserts and confectionery, but also to soak sponge cakes. But for this purpose it is prepared according to a different recipe.
Chocolate syrup for soaking sponge cake layers is made in the following sequence.
- Prepare a water bath. To do this, you need to put a large pan of water on the fire. As soon as it heats up, place a smaller diameter container in a large pan. We will cook in it.
- In a second, small saucepan, cut the butter into small cubes (100 g), pour a tablespoon of sifted cocoa powder and pour in condensed milk (150 ml).
- With constant stirring, heat the mass well so that it becomes a homogeneous consistency, and immediately remove the pan from the water bath.
- The syrup should be cooled a little and you can start soaking the cakes. It is advisable that they are still warm.
Unused topping can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.
Chocolate syrup - these words alone tempt you to make a purchase. How can we resist here? But in this review I will try to tell you about all the pros and cons of this product. And you decide whether you should buy it.
Production: USA. (is it strange that they still sell them here, or not?)
Price: approximately 350 rubles.
I had two types of such syrup - strawberry and chocolate. We bought strawberry only once, and even then we couldn’t finish it (the expiration date had expired) - about it in a separate review: Hershey`s Strawberry.
But we bought chocolate syrup several times and this is already the 3rd or 4th bottle. (Oh God!)
Let's look at compound:
syrup, water, sugar, salt....
Of course, there were some well-known E's, but at first glance, chocolate syrup is no more dangerous than many other products that we buy every day.
A fairly tight lid and a convenient dispenser.
Chocolate syrup is thick, you can feel the taste of chocolate (maybe not entirely natural, but very similar)
Directions for use:
In fact, there are a great many of them, and you can invent and invent them, I’ll tell you some of them
- You can pour it over and decorate pancakes, pancakes, pancakes, waffles
- you can eat it with ice cream (add grated waffles, chocolate syrup and you get a great dessert)
- I add this syrup to my coffee. I add 1 teaspoon of syrup to 1 cup of freshly brewed coffee, I like it, and you can drink coffee without sugar.
- it can be added to cocktails (with milk or ice cream), mixed in a blender, and a chocolate flavor will be felt
- in general, it can be added to any baked goods, desserts, or simply mixed with fruits and cottage cheese. This is, as they say, a task for your imagination!
From my own experience I can say that eating pancakes and pancakes with it is delicious. Cottage cheese with chocolate syrup is not very good - jam is better. But this is all a matter of taste. You can use this syrup as a filling in baked goods)) I can think of many ways.
My banana pancakes with this syrup:
But let's go back and look again. I still have the Russian label on the Hershey's Strawberry syrup (essentially the compositions of these syrups are identical). And you yourself can read here the composition in Russian, recipes, as well as the words:
Contains dye that may have a negative effect on children's activity and attention.
Very scary. Yes, and I think that it is better to try to find products without E in the composition, so I cannot recommend it to lovers of natural products.
Conclusion: You know, I won't buy this syrup anymore. I'd rather buy 100% maple syrup with 1 ingredient, although it's even more expensive. But it is much tastier and more natural.
Still, I will give it two stars and recommend it to those who really want to try it. But I DO NOT recommend it to those who are looking for natural ingredients, especially considering that such delicacies are mainly loved by children, then it is even more worth looking for something natural.
My review of Hershey's strawberry syrup:
Thank you for your attention!
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