Toss out store‑bought chocolate sauces — this is the only chocolate sauce recipe you’ll ever need. It uses simple ingredients, cooks in one pot, takes no more than 10 minutes, and tastes far better than any jarred sauce.

Fun fact: I’ve only bought chocolate sauce once — maybe twice — in my life. I rarely put sauce on ice cream, and when I needed it for baking I always melted a few ingredients together on the stove. After years of improvising, I developed a clear, reliable recipe that makes a rich, intensely chocolatey sauce you can easily reproduce at home.