Chocolate Sauce

• This chocolate sauce is based on vanilla sauce with the addition of cocoa or chocolate instead of vanilla essence.
• It is served chilled.
• Try serving it with bottled or tinned fruit, ice cream or yoghurt.
  

  Ingredients

• 250ml of milk (full fat is best)
• 50g of granulated sugar
• 20g of cocoa or 50g of dark chocolate
• 1-1½ tablespoonfuls of potato starch (you can use cornflour – if potato flour is not available)
• 2 egg yolks

Method – with cocoa

• Put 150ml of the milk into a saucepan.
• Heat gently – stirring all the time until boiling point.
• Take it of the heat.
• Blend together the rest of the milk (100ml) with the sugar, cocoa and potato flour.
• Add the heated milk to this and stir well.
• Put the mixture back in the pan and heat gently, stirring till it thickens .
• Add the egg yolks and stir these well in.
• Pour into a glass dish (or several small dishes) – leave to cool.
• Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours.

Method – with chocolate

• • Put 150ml of the milk into a saucepan.
  • Add the chocolate.
  • Heat gently – stirring all the time until boiling point.
  • Check that all the chocolate has dissolved.
  • Take it of the heat.
  • Blend together the rest of the milk (100ml) with the sugar and potato flour .
  • Add the heated milk and chocolate to this and stir well.
  • Put the mixture back in the pan and heat gently, stirring till it thickens .
  • Add the egg yolks and stir these well in.
  • Pour into a glass dish (or several small dishes) – leave to cool.
  • Chill in the fridge for at least 2 hours.