White Chocolate Sauce
A simple yet delicious white chocolate sauce recipe. Only two ingredients required. Use to accompany puddings and desserts of all kinds, either warm instead of custard or cold as a substitute for cream.
Well how exciting. For the very first time, Dom is allowing us to have a choice for this month’s Random Recipes. A limited choice perhaps, but nevertheless a choice. It’s a chance for those sadly neglected first and last recipes in a book to have their day and hopefully shine.
So I collected all of my chocolate books together (and they are slowly growing) and asked CT to do his usual and select a random number between 1 and 10.
Dah dah! It’s the second time For Chocolate Lovers by our local celebrity chefs the Tanner Brothers takes centre stage. The first recipe in the book was for banana and chocolate souffle pancakes, the last for white chocolate sauce.
A difficult choice you might think. Actually, it wasn’t in the least bit difficult because neither CT nor myself are particularly fond of bananas. Hmm, white chocolate sauce it is then.
White Chocolate Sauce
White chocolate sauce hardly rates as a recipe at all. It’s just a simple process of melting chocolate with milk and stirring. I use a slightly less fussy method to the one in the book to reduce on washing up, but don’t do anything fancy.
Because white chocolate is quite rich with cocoa butter and sweet with sugar, it works better with milk than it does with cream. Cream just makes it a bit too cloying and heavy. But you do need to use whole milk, the sauce just won’t be thick and creamy enough otherwise.
I generally use Green & Blacks white chocolate because it’s particularly vanillary. This means you can stick to just the two ingredients and still have a flavoursome sauce that goes with just about anything. You see this sauce is so good and so easy, that I’ve used it many times subsequently.
I’ve experimented with a few flavours and although they’re all good, I generally go back to basics with the original two ingredients. See the list further down the post for ideas.
The sauce is very sweet but creamy and quite tasty. It’s especially good over unsweetened strawberries. It also works well hot over frozen berries. Not surprisingly it makes an excellent accompaniment to chocolate ice cream as it does to pancakes and waffles.
As it’s such a quick and easy sauce to make and works well either hot or cold, it’s good served hot to spruce up anything that would normally be served with custard or cold as a substitute for cream.
Make It Your Own
This sauce lends itself to all sorts of flavours if you want to jazz it up a bit. Try adding one of the following:
- citrus zest – whisk in the finely grated zest of a lemon, lime or half an orange whilst the sauce is still warm. What fruit you choose will depend on your dessert.
- mint – warm the milk and infuse it with a small handful of fresh mint for an hour or so. Strain out the leaves, then add the chocolate to the milk and warm until melted.
- chilli – warm the milk and infuse it with a fresh or dried chilli for an hour or so. Remove the chilli, then add the chocolate to the milk and warm until melted. You could add a pinch of cayenne pepper or other chilli powder, but you’ll end up with an odd coloured sauce.
- nutmeg – grate a little fresh nutmeg into the sauce. You won’t need much as it has quite a powerful flavour.
Other Chocolate Sauce Recipes You Might Like
- Bailey’s chocolate sauce
- Coffee cardamom chocolate sauce
- Dark chocolate sauce
- Honey & crème fraîche chocolate sauce
- Maple chocolate sauce
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White Chocolate Sauce
Ingredients
- 100 g white chocolate (I use Green & Black’s)
- 125 ml whole milk
Instructions
- Break the chocolate up into a small saucepan.100 g white chocolate
- Pour in the milk.125 ml whole milk
- Place on a low heat and leave until the chocolate has melted – about five minutes.
- Stir until smooth.
- Pour into a jug and serve warm or at room temperature. It will thicken as it cools.
Notes
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Post Updated September 2022
Simple is the best sometimes! This sounds fantastic. Sadly, don’t think the same effect would be achieved making it with soya chocolate 🙁 Damn dairy intolerance!
Ruth, I don’t see why it couldn’t work – worth a try maybe?
I know some frown upon it bit I do ,one white chocolate and think G&B do a very fine bar of it! I have made white chocolate sauce before and find it works really well with soft fruits so I think this recipe is perfect!
Oh Laura, how do you make your white chocolate sauce?
Ooh lovely! I used to work at a restaurant where we often had frozen berries with hot white chocolate sauce on the menu – the idea being that you poured the sauce over the berries and it melted them. It was gorgeous actually, but I definitely fancy trying it over fresh strawberries.
You’re the second person to suggest iced berries, I really ought to try some. Do you stick them in the freezer? And if so for how long?
white chocolate sauce instead of custard? yes please1
You know Johanna, I love custard, but actually if it came to a choice between the two? ……… :-S
Some people don’t like white chocolate but I absolutely love it – that Green & Blacks bar with vanilla seeds is particularly delicious! This sauce sounds fab – so simple but gorgeous. Have you tried it over iced berries? Sooo good.
Yes the G&B bar is a really good one and great for cooking as it has so much vanilla in it. Iced berries are not something I’ve yet tried – will have to remedy that.
I love this sauce…I’ve just some in my fridge too…so funny!!
Have a nice week
Now that is very strange Manu. Why has it taken me so long to make it I’m wondering!
Really, we all try too hard sometimes. This is just perfect, Choc! 🙂
Thanks Celia – simple usually works for me 😉
Mmm… I always liked white chocolate and gosh, with strawberry it is just the perfect combo!
It’s so easy Alida, but works so well. Although I think I might try it with cream next time!
Sounds an excellent notion for adding to plenty of desserts – I do love an easy chocolate recipe.
I’m with you on the easy desserts Phil 🙂
Just laughed at Dom’s earlier comment – it’s 40 C here so you probably could make a white chocolate sauce on your patio 🙂
You’re right Sally – forget the stove!!!
My husband will sure love this!
Because it’s easy to make Angie, or because he likes a sweet chocolate sauce?
Yum – I love a thick, sweet white choc sauce!
Then this one might be for you CC, although, if you like it thick, you might want to reduce the milk slightly – or make it with cream for a real touch of decadence!
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Thanks Isabella and thanks for following.
I quite often make a sauce just like this to go over berries. Makes a classy dessert in seconds without much thought. Yum.
You were onto this a lot earlier than I was then, but I’m in the know now!
Dangerously easy this one! I have a bar of that exact chocolate in the cupboard and a bowl of strawbs. May have to get melting!!! Mind you in this heat I could just leave it outside! Thanks so much for taking part. Glad you enjoyed it. Xx
It’s the perfect dessert for this weather Dom – enjoy 😉
Not fond of bananas? 🙁 The white chocolate sauce looks good and it’s so versatile.
Yes, we’re very strange I know. I quite like them in a good banana cake or in other forms where they are toned down a bit, but not eating them as a fruit.
Gosh that sounds good though. I am not a fan of white chocolate but make an exception for G&B Vanilla.
I’m with you Janice when it comes to eating white chocolate on it’s own – it’s so very sweet. But I do like it in cooking!
Hmmm – I bought some very good strawberries yesterday and now you have given me an idea!
Mind you Alicia, if they are really good strawberries they might not need any adornment at all!