Peppermint Chocolate Sauce Recipe (2024)

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This Peppermint Chocolate Sauce Recipe is simple to make and it doubles as a homemade gift for friends, family, or teachers.

Ok you guys, which camp are you in? The leave-the-dishes-in-the-sink-until-tomorrow-morning crowd or must-get-the-dishes-finished-before-I-go-to-bed-no-matter-what group? I think I’m a combination of them both. I love waking up to a clean kitchen, but there comes a point where I’m just too exhausted to care—>which is basically 24/7. Most of the time I’ll load and start the dishwasher and let the bigger pots and pans “soak” overnight and quickly wash them in the morning before I make a sack lunch for my daughter. Sometimes I’ll really plan ahead and purposely make dinners with 1 pan or the crockpot! I enjoy dishes when there are very fewNEVER. Quesadillas and tortilla pizzas are my go-to fast 15 minute dinners and my family LOVES them. Plus the skillet is practically clean from the quesadillas after cooking and I line my baking sheets with parchment paper before making the pizzas. #lazymom #ihatedishes

Oh, and speaking of dishes {??} babies have the cushiest lives. They eat and sleep ALL DAY. Sometimes, my baby fights sleep and I just want to yell “don’t you know how lucky you are??”

That had nothing to do with anything.

ANYWAYS.

I made you something awfully tasty. It probably belongs in a December blog post, but we’re almost there so why not? Chocolate and peppermint is one of my favorite ingredient mashups. Especially when hot fudge is somehow involved too. Pretty sure hot fudge could bring world peace. #hotfudgeforpresident

This Dark Chocolate Peppermint Hot Fudge is a really simple thing to make and it doubles as a homemade gift for friends, family or even teachers. And, it’s a lot simpler than you think…..takes less than 10 minutes!

Here’s how you make it:First things first: make sure you clean and sanitize your jars/containers for the hot fudge before you fill them, since we will be giving these away. We want this stuff to keep for a while! I used my KitchenAid dishwasher for this.The cool thing about my dishwasher is it actually has a Sanitizing function built right in! Convenience at it’s finest! So that’s what I did to wash this load of dishes. I use the sanitize function on every dish load that has baby bottles too….which is nearly every one! That way I know everything is extra clean for my little one.Once those jars are clean and dry, we can actually make the sauce. Start by pouring some evaporated milk into a small sauce pot with some corn syrup, granulated sugar and brown sugar. Stir it up and start cooking it on the stove.While that’s heating up, you can chop up some bittersweet chocolate. Mmm…..Once this mixture comes to a boil, you can reduce the heat and let it simmer for about 3 minutes. Make sure you keep stirring! You don’t want this to burn!After the 3 minutes is up, remove from heat, pour in the chocolate, a little butter and the peppermint and vanilla extracts.Whisk it all together until the sauce is smooth. If you want to make sure your sauce is smooth, feel free to strain it or throw it into a blender for a few seconds. It’s not *that* necessary, but it will make sure you get a velvety warm sauce.Pour it into your jars and give it away!After a few hours once it cools, the sauce will thicken up quite a bit. But, just heat it gently in the microwave and it’ll be liquid again in no time.I added a few pieces of crushed candy cane to mine right before drizzling this over some vanilla ice cream…..my favorite holiday dessert! Warm chocolate peppermint sauce on cold ice cream with tiny crunchy pieces of candy cane…..so dreamy!! You MUST try it.

Here’s the printable recipe. Enjoy!!