This chocolate fondue is a rich and creamy dark chocolate dip that takes just minutes to make. Serve your fondue with an assortment of fruit and sweet treats as dippers, and you’ll have an easy dessert that everyone is sure to enjoy!
You can never go wrong with a chocolate dessert, I typically make chocolate pudding cake or Nutella cookies when I’m looking for a chocolate fix. This fondue is also a great choice and it’s ready in just a few minutes. It’s also a great choice for Valentine’s Day along with a homemade heart cake.
When I need a sweet treat without a lot of prep time, I pull out my fondue pot to make this rich chocolate treat. Fondue is great for parties, movie nights or even as a fun and decadent after school snack.
Make this fondue part of a dessert platter with chocolate fudge cookies, cookie dough dip and smores fudge!
Chocolate Fondue Ingredients
To make this chocolate fondue recipe you will need semisweet chocolate, heavy cream and vanilla extract. You will also want fruit, cookies and other things to dip into the fondue.
How Do You Make Chocolate Fondue?
When you make this chocolate fondue recipe start heating heavy whipping cream in a large pan over medium heat. Add chopped chocolate to the pan and turn off the heat. Whisk the chocolate and cream together until smooth. Stir in vanilla extract and enjoy the fondue warm.
Tips For The Perfect Chocolate Fondue
- You can use a fondue pot if you have one, a crockpot on low or simply use a small oven safe container with a tea light candle lit underneath it to provide a little heat to keep the chocolate liquid.
- I recommend using chopped chocolate bars rather than chocolate chips for this recipe. Some brands of chocolate chips contain stabilizers to help them retain their shape and they won’t melt smoothly.
- Use your favorite high quality chocolate for a great flavor. I recommend Guittard and Ghiradelli because they tend to melt well.
- To dip treats into your chocolate you can use fondue forks, regular forks or skewers.
Quick Tip
It’s best to serve your fondue immediately so that it doesn’t harden up.
Recipe FAQs
This fondue will start to thicken as it cools. It will never completely harden because of the cream in the mixture. If you’d like to have thicker fondue, I recommend removing it from the heat and waiting 5-7 minutes and your chocolate will start to set up.
You can reheat your fondue either in a pot on the stove over low heat, or in the microwave. If you choose to use the microwave, heat your fondue in 30 second increments, stirring occasionally until melted.
My favorite brands of chocolate for melting are Ghirardelli and Guittard. You can find bars of these chocolates near the chocolate chips in the baking aisle.
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Flavor variations
This is a classic dark chocolate version of fondue, but there are so many different ways to make a dessert fondue!
- S’mores: Use milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate, then swirl in 1/3 cup marshmallow cream and top with crumbled graham crackers.
- Mint: Add 1/4 teaspoon mint extract and top with chopped Andes mints.
- Peanut Butter: Use milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate, then swirl in 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter.
- White Chocolate Raspberry: Use white chocolate instead of dark chocolate, and swirl in raspberry jam.
- Boozy Fondue: Try adding a splash of Chambord or Grand Marnier.
- Caramel: Try swirling in some caramel sauce. You can even add some chopped pecans for a “turtle” fondue.
What Goes Well In Chocolate Fondue?
There are so many different dippers that you can serve with fondue.
- Fresh Fruit: You can dip strawberries, banana slices, apple slices, kiwi fruit and berries.
- Dried Fruit: Feel free to try dried fruit including apricots, oranges, mango, peaches, pears, apples, etc.
- Cookies and Cake: My kids love to dip sweet treats like cookies, biscotti, vanilla wafers brownies, brownie bites, Oreos, rice krispies treats and cubes of cut up angel food cake.
- Other favorites: Feel free to dip favorites like marshmallows, pretzels and donut holes.
I always keep a few chocolate bars on hand so that I can whip up some fondue at a moment’s notice! It’s a fun dessert that’s great for kids and is welcome at any special occasion.
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Chocolate Fondue
Ingredients
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 12 ounces semisweet chocolate coarsely chopped
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Assorted dippers such as berries, bananas, pound cake, pretzels and cookies
Instructions
- Heat the heavy cream in a pan over medium heat until hot, there should be bubbles around the sides of the pan. Do not boil.
- Add the chocolate to the pan. Turn off the heat. Whisk until completely smooth.
- Stir in the vanilla extract. Serve immediately with dippers.
Notes
- It’s best to serve your fondue immediately so that it doesn’t harden up.
- You can use a fondue pot if you have one, a crockpot on low or simply use a small oven safe container with a tea light candle lit underneath it to provide a little heat to keep the chocolate liquid.
- I recommend using chopped chocolate bars rather than chocolate chips for this recipe.
Oh wow, this one is a winner. I would love to try making this. My boys would absolutely love this.
I never knew how easy to make fondue. Until I saw your blog. I’m going to try it out. Thanks for posting this.
You can’t go wrong with chocolate or fondue! I want to make a family tradition of fondue on New Years Day…so pinning this recipe!
Kids and young at heart will definitely enjoy that fondue. I do love dipping marshmallows or strawberries to my fondue. That must be so yummy!
I will have to save this recipe when I am craving some chocolate! Love how quickly I can whip this up!
5 stars, wow and i am drooling lol…Amazing recipe. Thank you so so much for sharing.
The instructions are so easy to follow,I love fondue so much especially for my pretzels, I would really try this recipe.
Whenever I travel I often see chocolate fondue in the buffet dinner table and wonder how to make it as I love it so much. Glad to come across the recipe here.
Wow that looks amazing. I could really go for a sweet dessert like this sometime this weekend. I think we will do just that!
Wow, the is so delicious and the procedure look so easy to follow. Thank you for sharing this recipe with us!
I do love a chocolate fondue and this looks so good! Fondues are always good for entertaining.
Thanks for the recipe, that’ll be a big help for the next party I throw. I didn’t know that some chocolate chips contain stabilisers.
Oh I absolutely love fondue! I alwasy forget to make it, thanks for reminding me!
Omg why are you doing this to me haha 🙂
Yum
I love super simple recipes… I never made a fondue but this time, i will give it a try.
Hmmm yum! This chocolate fondue looks sooooooo delicious! Can’t wait to try this.
wow! I never know fondue was this easy to make. Will def be trying this out
Such a quick and delicious recipe, thank you for sharing it!
ooh what a lovely recipe this is, i love fondue with strawberries and marshmallows i have never made fondue but i might just give it a go, thanks for this
This looks so tasty! I will have to give this a try ASAP! Thanks for the recipe 🙂