Run to the supermarket and buy some sweet cherries. Now. You need this homemade chocolate cherry sauce in your life.
Cherries are $1.99/lb. at our ALDI and another area supermarket right now. This is the price where I normally would be scooping them up to freeze for the rest of the year but alas, temp housing means that isn’t very feasible.
I’ll be crying in the winter when I don’t have any cherries for chocolate cherry sauce, dark chocolate cherry bread, homemade cherry limeade, or cherry jam. That means I need to enjoy extra cherries right now, and I am.
Eat one, chop one. Eat one, chop one. Works for me. You’ll need approximately 2 handfuls for this recipe and another handful for eating.
Chocolate Cherry Sauce
- Prep Time: 5 minutes
- Cook Time: 15 minutes
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 1 pint 1x
Ingredients
- 1 cup cocoa powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 cup water
- 1 cup diced cherries
Instructions
- Mix cherries, cocoa powder, and sugar in saucepan.
- Whisk in water and cook over medium/medium high heat until mixture comes to a boil, stirring almost constantly.
- Boil chocolate mixture for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
- Turn off stove and set chocolate aside to cool.
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Heather McCurdy writes at Real: The Kitchen and Beyond where she shows families how to slow down and savor life on any budget with tasty homemade recipes and family travel.
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Agnes says
What do you do to store the sauce? How long does it last?
Heather says
Hi Agnes. I’m sorry I missed your comment. I store the sauce in a jelly jar in the refrigerator. It generally lasts a couple weeks – if we don’t gobble it up before that. Just watch for it to start molding.