Favorite Chocolate Sauce

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Title: FAVORITE CHOCOLATE SAUCE
Categories: Desserts, Sauces
Yield: 3 cups

1/2 c Butter or margarine
3/4 c Hershey's Cocoa
1 3/4 c Sugar
1 ds Salt
1 cn Evaporated milk (12 oz.)
1 ts Vanilla extract

In medium microwave-safe bowl or 4-cup glass measure, place butter.
Microwave at HIGH (100%) 1 to 1-1/2 minutes or until melted. Add cocoa;
stir until smooth. Add sugar, salt and evaporated milk; stir until well
blended. Microwave at HIGH 5 to 8 minutes, stirring occasionally, or
until mixture comes to a boil. Beat with whisk until smooth. Stir in
vanilla. Serve warm on cake, ice cream or other desserts. Cover;
refrigerate leftover sauce. About 3 cups sauce.

To reheat: Microwave at HIGH a few seconds at a time until warm.

Variations:

Chocolate-Nut Sauce: At the end of cooking, stir in 1 cup coarsely
chopped toasted nuts

Chocolate-Mint Sauce: Stir in 1/2 teaspoon peppermint extract with
vanilla extract.

Hershey's is a registered trademark of Hershey Foods Corporation.
Recipe may be reprinted courtesy of the Hershey Kitchens.