Chocolate Fondue Recipe

5 from 2 votes

Chocolate Fondue is rich, smooth, and easy to make with five simple ingredients, perfect for dipping fruit, cake, and treats at parties.

Prep Time15

Cook Time10

Total Time25

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: French

Servings: people

In a heavy saucepan, over medium heat, melt chocolate chips and butter with sweetened condensed milk and water. Cook and stir constantly until thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add vanilla.
Serve warm as a dipping sauce for fruit, cookies/crackers, and treats or drizzle over ice cream or cake.
Store leftovers covered in the refrigerator.

We dipped pound cake, bananas, marshmallows, strawberries, clementine oranges, cinnamon graham crackers, and pineapples in the fondue.
Other items to dip: cherries with stems, melon balls, apple wedges, grapes, dried apricots, peach, plum, and pear slices, angel food cake cubes, and kiwi fruit slices.

Recipe Tips.

Stir constantly while cooking to keep the chocolate smooth and prevent scorching.
Cook over medium or medium-low heat to avoid overheating the chocolate.
If the fondue thickens as it sits, stir in a splash of warm milk or cream to thin it back out.
Keep the fondue warm in a fondue pot or slow cooker on the lowest setting for parties.

Store. As long as there are no double dippers and the fondue is clean, you can store leftover fondue in a container in the fridge for 7-10 days.

Reheat slowly on the stovetop or in the microwave at half power. Store leftover dipping treats in separate containers.