Canning Chocolate Sauces Unsafe
Brian A. Nummer, Ph.D.
National Center for Home Food Preservation
July 2003
Numerous recipes for chocolate sauces circulate on the internet
and in newsgroups. Chocolate sauces are low acid recipes and are
a risk for botulism food poisoning. Therefore any recipes that use
the boiling water canning process are especially at risk. Furthermore,
there are no science-based, tested recipes for chocolate sauces
utilizing the pressure canning process in either the “USDA
Complete Guide to Home Canning” (1994),
the University of Georgia’s “So
Easy to Preserve” (1999), or in
publications from land grant University partners in the Cooperative
Extension System.
Instead of canning, freeze your chocolate sauce recipe
Freezer Chocolate Fudge Sauce
- ½ cup margarine or butter
- 2 ½ cups sugar
- 3 squares (3 ounces) unsweetened chocolate
- 12 oz. can evaporated milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Melt margarine in the top of a double boiler. Add chocolate and
melt, while constantly stirring. Add sugar gradually, ¼ cup at
a time, while stirring. Then add salt. Next, stir milk in gradually
and finally add the vanilla. Cook until desired thickness –
approximately 1 hour, stirring occasionally.
Pour sauce into a clean, warm, wide-mouth quart jar or similar
freezer-safe container(s). Allow the sauce to cool at room temperature
for 1 to 2 hours. Seal and freeze.
The sauce should remain soft enough to spoon out portions while
frozen.
Works Cited
Cooperative Extension Service. 1999. "So
Easy To Preserve," 4th ed. Bulletin 989. The University
of Georgia.
USDA. 1994. Complete guide
to home canning. Agriculture Information Bulletin No.539.
Washington, DC: CSREES-U.S. Department of Agriculture.
This material is based upon work supported by the Cooperative State
Research, Education, and Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture,
under Agreement No. 00-51110-9762.
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2003. Canning Chocolate Sauces Unsafe. Athens, GA: The University
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