We spent New Year's Eve celebrating with sparkling grape juice (alcoholic for us big people, and non-alcoholic for the little ones--who didn't drink it anyway because they hate anything with bubbles in it!) and chocolate fondue. Yum! We dipped pound cake, marshmallows, graham crackers (and made some little mini smores), strawberries, bananas, and um, spoons. (this was at the end when the kids were done--I couldn't let perfectly good gooey chocolate go to waste! We tried out a new recipe which was decadent and delicious. And totally not healthy. Although Sam decided the strawberries were better without the chocolate, and ate about half of the plate by himself!
Here's our new favorite fondue recipe:
Chocolate Fondue
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 1 (14 ounce) can EAGLE BRAND® Sweetened Condensed Milk (NOT evaporated milk)
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
DIRECTIONS
- In heavy saucepan, over medium heat, melt chocolate chips and butter with EAGLE BRAND® and water. Cook and stir constantly until thickened, about 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add vanilla.
- Serve warm as a fruit and cookie/cracker dipping sauce or drizzle over ice cream or cake. Store leftovers covered in refrigerator.
I'll post pictures later if we ever get around to uploading them onto the computer!
