Homemade Chocolate Fondue
on Mar 08, 2010, Updated Aug 21, 2024
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Quick and easy chocolate fondue made with 4 ingredients. You don’t even need a fondue pot to make it! Perfect as a dip for berries, cookies, and more.
Chocolate fondue is super simple to make. With an endless variety of things you can dip in this fondue (especially using up things you already have on hand), you are going to love this easy recipe.
It would be such a fun dessert to make for a party, a family night, or to celebrate something special like Valentine’s Day. Or, add a couple appetizers like a simple hummus platter and a meat and cheeseboard – and you have a fun meal of snacks.
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Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Chocolate fondue is easy to make at home. It only takes four ingredients plus things to dip and 10 minutes.
- The variety of dipping options is endless, from fruits to cookies to pretzels. You can customize it to your tastes.
- This fondue can be enjoyed with or without a fondue pot.
- It makes a big batch so it’s great for sharing.
Recipe Ingredients
- Cream: You can use either heavy cream or whipping cream in this recipe.
- Chocolate chips: Go with a high-quality chocolate chips or bar for the best results.
- Vanilla
- Peanut butter: Make sure it’s creamy
- Things for dipping: You can dip anything sweet or savory in this chocolate fondue, including strawberries, pretzels, pound cake, graham crackers, etc.
See the recipe card below for full information on ingredients and quantities
How to Make Chocolate Fondue
- Step #1. Heat the cream in a sauce pan over medium heat until steam comes off the top.
- Step #2. Remove from the heat and add the chocolate all at once. Let the mixture rest for 1 minute.
- Step #3. Whisk to combine. Then, add the peanut butter and gently stir to combine.
- Step #4. Transfer it to a bowl or fondue pot.
Recipe FAQs
You can use any brand but make sure it is creamy peanut butter otherwise your chocolate fondue will not have a smooth texture.
The peanut butter adds a nice texture and depth of flavor. If you don’t want to taste the peanut butter, add only 2 tablespoons. If you want a hint of peanut butter with your chocolate add the full 4 tablespoons.
Pour the chocolate fondue into a bowl and use long wooden skewers (usually for grilling kabobs) to dip into the fondue. The chocolate fondue will stay warm and dippable for about 40 minutes.
You can dip anything that tastes good with chocolate. Here are some popular ideas: berries, banana slices, vanilla wafers, pound cake, marshmallows, pretzels, graham crackers, and angel food cake.
Expert Tips
- Choosing high quality chocolate chips makes a big difference for fondue (cheap chocolate doesn’t melt well and can taste funny when heated). I like Ghirardelli chips for this recipe.
- This chocolate fondue is rather thin. For a thicker fondue, only use 1 and 1/4 cups of cream.
- If you like a chocolate fondue that’s less sweet, use dark or semi-sweet chocolate chips. For a sweeter fondue, use milk chocolate chips.
- Serving suggestion: When serving to a group, pre-fill 2 ounce serving cups for kids to dip their treats individually and then the adults can have the rest of the board.
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Homemade Chocolate Fondue
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups cream
- 16 ounces good quality chocolate chips or chopped chocolate bar, semi sweet or milk chocolate, (about 2 cups)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2-4 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- Things for dipping in your chocolate fondue such as: strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, banana slices, apple slices, vanilla wafers, frozen cheesecake chunks, gummy bears, pound cake, graham crackers, angel food cake, pretzels etc., (select gluten free items if needed)
Instructions
- In a medium sauce pan, over medium heat, heat the cream until you just start to see steam coming off the top.
- Remove from the heat and add the chocolate all at once. Let the mixture rest for 1 minute.
- Whisk to combine well.
- Add the peanut butter and stir to combine.
- Transfer it to your prepared fondue pot and enjoy dipping in things.
Notes
- Adding peanut butter gives the fondue a better texture. You won’t notice it in the chocolate when you add 2 tablespoons. If you want a hint of peanut butter with your chocolate, add the full 4 tablespoons.
- If you like a semi-sweet fondue, use semi-sweet chocolate chips. If you want a sweeter chocolate fondue, use milk chocolate chips. Good quality chocolate chips make a big difference when it comes to the end product. I like Ghirardelli chips for this recipe.
- This makes a fairly thin fondue. If you’d like it to be a bit thicker, reduce the cream to 1 and 1/4 cups.
- If you don’t have a fondue pot, pour the chocolate fondue into a bowl and use long wooden skewers to dip into the fondue. The chocolate fondue will stay warm and dippable without a fondue pot for about 40 minutes.
The recipe calls for cream is this whipping cream?
You can use cream, heavy cream, or heavy whipping cream, they’ll all work.
made this and it was delicious! Only thing is we left it warming in pot for a late guest to enjoy and it separated! It was like all oil/water sat on top and no matter how much you stirred it, it stayed watery and wouldn’t adhere to fruit. Is this normal? Is it because of fruit dipped earlier or because I let it keeping warming for an extra hour?
It was because of the prolonged heat, the chocolate “broke”. It’s better to let it cool and then just reheat a little as needed.