Chocolate Fondue

Every year on February 14th, Dr. C and I make our annual Valentine's Day Fondue--cheese fondue for dinner and chocolate fondue for dessert.  While I'm still searching for the perfect cheese fondue recipe (I try a new one just about every year) a few years ago, I found the best (and easiest) chocolate fondue recipe from Hersheys Kitchens. 

The key to this yummy treat is that it uses cocoa powder instead of spending forever grating chocolate bars that end up just melting in your hand--leaving you with less to actually eat!  This year we dipped banana and strawberry slices, but we've also done pound cake, sugar cookies, cherries, grapes, mandarin orange segments, pineapple chunks...pretty much anything that tastes good in chocolate!

Fudgy Chocolate Fondue

1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup Hershey's Cocoa Powder
3/4 cup white sugar
1/2 cup evaporated milk
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
 
Directions:
1. Melt butter in small saucepan over low heat.  Remove from heat; immediately stir in cocoa.  Add sugar and evaporated milk.
2. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until sugar is dissolved and mixture is smooth.  Remove from heat; stir in vanilla.  Serve warm with assorted fondue dippers.