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We're currently in the middle of sauce week
so we're gonna level up chocolate fudge sauce
Today: chocolate fudge sauce.
Now, this is the kind of thing that you're more than likely gonna just buy a bottle of from a shop
and then pour it on anything and everything.
You've addressed my first point.
Exactly. And it's gonna taste a little bit like this.
This is traditional...?
This is shop-bought chocolate fudge sauce.
God. Have we got a spoon each?
I've fudged everywhere!
Here you go.
Is that on me?
No. It completely missed you.
Did it miss me?
Yeah, you're lucky. You just got away with it.
It's nice, isn't it? It's what you'd expect.
So I'm gonna show you how to make your own chocolate fudge sauce
and then...
I'm gonna show you how to level up...
that levelled up fudge sauce.
Honestly, this is really, really simple.
It's just a load of stuff going into a pan
stirring it, melting it, job done.
Butter, dark brown sugar, cocoa,
golden syrup, double cream...
and some salt. We're gonna heat that up and combine it all together.
Now that's all combined and melted down, we're gonna add in our real chocolate:
dark, obviously.
And some vanilla. Now, we've got some vanilla paste but get the best vanilla you can get:
extract or real vanilla.
And after a couple of minutes, when all your chocolate is melted,
you get this beautiful, smooth,
glossy sauce.
Be careful, but have some of that.
B: That on a fondant... M: That is delicious.
B: ...that is inside of a fondant, but I'd put that on top of a fondant as well but
And how easy was that? Chuck some stuff in a pan,
melt it, pour it over yourself. Lovely.
So, I'm intrigued to know how you're gonna take that a level up because
it's already pretty good.
Let's level up that level up with a red wine syrup.
What? Why red wine?
Yeah. What goes really well with chocolate?
Not red wine.
Red wine. Also: licquorice, so we've got some star anise.
And all we're gonna do
M: Sounds like a level down.
B: This could be a first.
I mean it started well, mate. Yeh.
All we're gonna do is put it into a pan,
reduce it down so it becomes nice and syrupy,
and then add that into our fudge sauce.
And then you will be eating your words.
So after ten or fifteen minutes of reducing down,
this is the kind of consistency you're looking for.
It's nice and syrupy, you see that?
I'm gonna grab our star anise out,
and now for the best bit: we mix it in with our pre-existing fudge sauce
M: I'm really, really intrigued as to how this is gonna taste.
And there we have it.
That is our newly improved, levelled up, levelled up
chocolate fudge sauce.
We have all three there. Shall we do a taste comparison?
Yes. Yeah. Okay. Ground level?
B: Sticky, sweet. Delicious. M: Very, very sweet.
B: Level one.
M: Yeah, that's just so much better. B: It's just real chocolate.
M: Melted butter, caramel-y, chocolatey...bangin'.
B: Now, are we going to level two?
B: Ooh. It takes you on a journey, doesn't it? M: Oh my goodness.
B: That's well posh.
M: That's probably one of the best levels up we've ever done,
because the comparison. Good job!
You can taste that, like, melted buttery,
caramel-y flavour that you get from chocolate sauce anyway, but then
there's like a top layer of fruitiness
that's just nice and light, and it just sort of, like, rounds the whole thing off.
So it's massively sweet and delicious
but also, like, tastes like it's balanced and stuff. Innit?
B: And if you don't like red wine, don't be put off by that, because you can't taste red wine.
It's so fruity.
J: Well, I've managed to convince these two. But you're gonna wanna try.
Get the recipe. And, to convince you one step further that you wanna try it,
have a look at this.
Put it on ice cream, put it on fruit, put it on pie,
put it on toast, put it on Barry, it doesn't matter. It's great.
But what we would like to know is what should we level up next?
Comment down below and we will choose the one that has the most likes.
But for now, that is chocolate fudge sauce taken...
a level up.
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