Making and canning your own chocolate sauce couldn’t be any easier. As long as you have the ingredients on hand, canning supplies and are comfortable water bath canning, you can easily make chocolate sauce to add to your long-term food storage at a fraction of the cost. This chocolate sauce is very versatile and can be used to top ice cream or other desserts, to make chocolate milk or hot cocoa or any other way you see fit.
Homemade Chocolate Sauce Recipe
6 cups sugar
2 cups cocoa powder
4 cups hot water
2 teaspoons vanilla
½ teaspoon canning salt
Directions:
Add sugar, cocoa powder, and hot water to a large pot and cook on medium/high heat. Stir continuously. Bring to a boil and boil for 3 minutes. Remove from heat and add the vanilla and salt.
Fill jars with a ½ inch headspace. Process jars in water bath canner for 20 minutes.
Yield 8-10 half-pints.
Our preference is to can this chocolate sauce in half-pint jars, however, you could also can it in pint jars and would use less jars as a result. We also prefer to use organic cane sugar to make this chocolate sauce.
Please try making this chocolate sauce and adding these jars of chocolate sauce to your pantry shelves. Thank you for stopping by and visiting Sunup to Sundown!
Thank you for this great recipe. I’ve been wanting homemade sauces to go into ice cream baskets that I’m making for Christmas. By chance do you have a caramel sauce that can be canned beside the sweeten condensed one that is on the internet? Thank you.
Hi Joan,
Thank you also and you’re very welcome! I’ve been canning this chocolate sauce recipe for about 10 years, and everyone absolutely loves it for ice cream or even for chocolate milk. I’m so sorry but I don’t have a recipe for caramel sauce but if you find a good canned recipe, I would love to try it too!! Don’t forget that home canned fruit syrups would make a great addition to your ice cream basket too! And what a wonderful gift idea, I might have to use that for this holiday season too!!
Thank you,
Ashley Bilyeu
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Thank you. I I’ll be making your wonderful chocolate sauce for the holidays.
Hi Joan,
You are very welcome! It a wonderful chocolate sauce to keep on your pantry shelf but is also a great gift to give away too. Everyone loves this chocolate sauce!
Thank you again,
Ashley Bilyeu