My Family's Secret Hot Fudge Sauce Recipe - Revealed!

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I consider myself less-than-domestic, so if I'm going to cook something, it has to be incredibly easy. My family's homemade fudge sauce certainly qualifies, and it's the best kind of simple recipe there is; it tastes like it was much more difficult than it was.

So, because I'm really in the Christmas spirit today, I'm now going to share my family's secret hot fudge sauce recipe with you. We're talking about a recipe that my mom has been making and handing out to our friends and neighbors for over 20 years. People love it so much that she even gets requests for this sauce year-round. It took a lot of convincing on my part because my mom wasn't exactly "willing" to part with her recipe, but after convincing her that none of you would publish it once you figured out how incredibly amazing it is (she might kick my...), I now give you:

THE HOLADAY FAMILY'S SECRET HOT FUDGE SAUCE

Ingredients:

• One package of Ghirardelli chocolate chips (the Semi-Sweet ones)
• Two 14 oz cans of Carnation Sweetened Condensed Milk
  
• Two sticks of butter
• 2 1/2 cups of light corn syrup

Directions:

1. Fill the bottom pan of a large double boiler up half way with water, and put on stove top, which should be set to "3."(If your stove has 10 settings. If not, adjust accordingly. Work with me here - I'm writing this from a non-cook's perspective.)
2. Dump all the ingredients in the top pan of the double boiler. Literally.
3. Heat while stirring with a spatula until all of the butter and chocolate chips are liquified. This should take about 15 minutes.
4. For the next half hour, let sauce thicken. Continually stir the liquid with a wire whisk, and keep on the same heat setting. If you see a crust on the top of your fudge sauce, you're not stirring it enough.
5. Let the sauce cool for about ten minutes, or until it is easy to handle.
6. Ladel sauce into pretty glass jars. (Makes 10 small jars or 6 large jars.) NOTE: Leave lids off the jars for a couple of hours until the sauce is almost completely cool. Otherwise, you'll get condensation in your fudge, and nobody wants that.

This sauce is best enjoyed if you heat it and drizzle it over peppermint or vanilla ice cream. Or you can do what I do and eat it out of the jar with a spoon. You're choice, and you can thank me later.