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The King’s Cupboard Dessert Sauces: Long Live The King Page 4: Chocolate Sauce Recipe Ideas This is Page 4 of a five-page article. Click on the black links below to visit other pages. INDEX Page 1: Capsule Report Page 1: Overview Page 2: Chocolate Sauces Page 3: Caramel Sauces Page 3: Serving Suggestions Page 4: Adding Liqueurs Page 4: Recipes With The Sauces Page 5: Other Types Of Dessert Sauce Page 5: Have A Sundae Party Page 5: Shopping Information Page 5: Related Articles Page 5: More Dessert Books See the table of contents of the June issue of THE NIBBLE online magazine, plus the back issues archive and our most popular articles. See the prior issues archive of the Top Pick Of The Week newsletter.

Spirited Variations: Adding Spirits & Liqueurs To Chocolate & Caramel Sauce

But there’s more. If you like liqueurs in your sauces, you can have a good time playing mix-and-match with both chocolate and caramel, using what you already have in the liquor cabinet.

Spirits like bourbon, brandy and rum add spark to the sauces, as do most fruit liqueurs and other flavors that parallel the chocolate sauces themselves (chocolate liqueurs like Godiva, coffee liqueurs like Kahlua and Illy, orange liqueurs like Grand Marnier and mint liqueurs like creme de menthe). Mix in 1 tablespoon per 10-ounce jar after you have heated the sauce. Almost all spirits work equally well in caramel and chocolate sauces. Some things might be a little cutting edge, like caramel with crème de menthe. But in the right preparation, for example on vanilla or chocolate ice cream with a fresh fruit coulis mixed with chopped mint, it would work. Heating The Sauce One of the delights in using these dessert sauces is how quickly they heat in the microwave.

Take some cognac and stir it into the sauce.

• Microwave. An entire jar will warm in the microwave in 45 seconds. Place the opened jar in the microwave for 30 seconds, check, stir and heat for 15 seconds more.
• Stovetop. If you prefer the stove, place the opened jar in a small saucepan filled with water to half the height of the jar. Place over low heat and warm, stirring occasionally.

Recipes

• Gettin’ Figgy With It: Chocolate Fig Recipe
  Heat a jar of King’s Cupboard Bittersweet Chocolate sauce in the microwave for approximately 45 seconds, or until melted. Dip fresh figs into the melted sauce and roll them in crushed macadamia or pistachio nuts. Chill on waxed paper and serve them with coffee or as part of a dessert plate. Another favorite of ours is dates stuffed with mascarpone, dipped into the chocolate and rolled in pistachios. You can dip other dried fruits—and fresh fruits—and roll them in nuts.
• Salad Surprise: Caramel Vinaigrette Recipe
  Blend 1-1/2 parts King’s Cupboard Pear Cinnamon Caramel Sauce, 2 parts walnut oil and 1 part rice wine vinegar. Stir prior to plating to avoid separation. Serve with spring mix salad greens or red leaf lettuce plus pear slices, crumbled gorgonzola and walnut halves or candied walnuts. As a variation, try Raspberry Caramel Sauce with baby spinach leaves, fresh raspberries and pecan halves or candied pecans.

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