Chocolate Sauce with Pound Cake

By yollymg

An easy, versatile chocolate sauce dresses up store-bought pound cake for a simple dessert offering.

For a festive fondue dessert, substitute an orarige flavored liqueur like TripleSec for the coffee-flavored one (or omit the liqueur altogether), and dunk fresh orange sections, dried apricots, marshmallows, or pretzel rods into the sauce.

Or make this as a topping for reduced-fat ice cream

Ingredients

• 1 loaf pound cake
• 1/3 cup whole milk
• 3 ounces premium-quality semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 1/2 cup powdered sugar
• 1 1/2 tablespoons light colored corn syrup
• 1 tablespoon coffee flavored liqueur
• 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups raspberries

Preparation

Step 1

Heat milk in top of a double boiler over medium heat. Add chocolate to pan; cook 2 minutes or until smooth, stirring constantly. Stir in sugar, corn syrup, liqueur, and vanilla; cook 2 minutes or until smooth, stirring constantly with a whisk.

Serve with pound cake and raspberries.

Makes 1 cup