Chocolate syrup - these very words lure you to make a purchase. And how can you stay here? But in this review I will try to tell you about all the pros and cons of such a product. It's up to you to decide if you should buy it.

Production: USA. (Is it strange that we still sell them, or not?)

Price: about 350 rubles.

I had two types of this syrup - strawberry and chocolate. We bought strawberry only 1 time, and then we couldn’t finish it (the expiration date had expired) - about it in a separate review: Hershey`s Strawberry.

But chocolate syrup was bought several times and this is already 3 or 4 bottles. (Oh God!)

Let's look at composition:

syrup, water, sugar, salt....

Of course, not without the famous E, but at first glance, chocolate syrup is no more dangerous than many other products that we buy every day.

Sufficiently tight lid, and a convenient dispenser.

The chocolate syrup is thick, you can feel the taste of chocolate (maybe not quite natural, but very similar)

How to use:

In fact, there are a great many of them, and you can invent and invent, I will tell you some of them.

they can be watered and decorated with pancakes, pancakes, pancakes, waffles
it can be eaten with ice cream (add grated waffles, chocolate syrup and you get a great dessert)
I add this syrup to my coffee. I add 1 teaspoon of syrup to freshly brewed coffee for 1 cup, I like it, and you can drink coffee without sugar.
it can be added to smoothies (with milk or ice cream), mixed in a blender, and a chocolate flavor will be felt
in general, it can be added to any pastries, desserts, you can simply mix it with fruits, cottage cheese. This is what is called a task for your imagination!

From my own experience I will say that pancakes, pancakes with it are delicious to eat. Cottage cheese with chocolate syrup is not very good - jam is better. But it's all a matter of taste. You can use this syrup as a filling in pastries)) I can think of many ways.

My banana pancakes with this syrup:

But let's go back and look again. I still have a Russian label on Hershey`s Strawberry syrup (in fact, the compositions of these syrups are identical). And you yourself can read here the composition in Russian, recipes, as well as the words:

Contains a dye that may have a negative effect on the activity and attention of children.

It's very frightening. Yes, and I think it’s better to try to find products without E in the composition, so I can’t recommend it to lovers of natural products.

Output: You know, I won't buy that syrup again. I'd rather buy 100% maple syrup with 1 ingredient, even though it's even more expensive. But it is much tastier and more natural.

Still, I will give it two stars and recommend it to those who really want to try it. But I do NOT recommend it to those who are looking for natural ingredients, especially considering that such goodies are mostly loved by children, then it is even more worth looking for something natural.

My review of Hershey`s Strawberry Syrup:

Thanks for attention!

Chocolate syrup is loved by adults and children. It is used as an independent treat, as well as for preparing a variety of dishes. Desserts with chocolate syrup look like in a restaurant. And it is easy and simple to prepare. We invite you to learn how to make chocolate syrup at home.

Ingredients

Water 300 milliliters cocoa powder 150 grams Sugar 600 grams Vanillin 1 sachet Salt 1 pinch

Servings: 6
Cooking time: 10 minutes

Cooking chocolate syrup at home

The easiest way to make chocolate syrup is from cocoa powder. This sweet can be stored in the refrigerator for more than two months. Although usually chocolate syrup ends much earlier.

For cooking you will need:

Water - 300 ml;

Cocoa powder - 150 g;

Sugar - 600 g;

Vanillin - 1 sachet;

To prepare dessert: mix cocoa powder with water and put on a small fire. Remember to stir the mixture constantly so that it does not burn. When cocoa dissolves, add sugar, vanilla and salt. Keep the future syrup on the stove for 3-5 minutes. After this time, remove the mixture from the heat and set aside. Store chocolate syrup in the refrigerator.

Chocolate syrup recipe without cocoa powder

You can make syrup directly from dark chocolate. If you are not a fan of cocoa powder, then this recipe is for you.

Chocolate Syrup Ingredients:

Chocolate at least 75% cocoa powder - 1 bar (80–90 g);

Sugar - 600 g;

Water - 350 ml.

The recipe for dark chocolate syrup is quite simple. First, mix sugar with water, and put the mixture on a slow fire. When the syrup boils, add the grated chocolate to it. Boil the mixture for 10-15 minutes. Once the chocolate syrup has cooled, transfer it to a clean container and place in the refrigerator.

Based on this recipe, you can make chocolate sauce. To do this, it is enough to replace water with milk or cream. In any case, chocolate or cocoa powder syrup is rich, sweet and fragrant.

Desserts with chocolate syrup

Chocolate syrup can be used to make any dessert. It is added to cakes and cookies. But most often the syrup serves as an addition to ice cream, pancakes and cottage cheese desserts. A dish seasoned with such a sauce acquires a chocolate flavor and looks original.

If you want to please children or make them drink milk, prepare a chocolate drink for them. It will retain useful substances. Just add a couple of tablespoons of chocolate syrup to a glass of milk. The child should like it.

Now you know how to make chocolate syrup at home. Such a sweet is prepared quickly, stored for a long time and is suitable for any desserts.

Desserts and sweets are what both adults and children love. Ice cream, cakes, pies and fruit salads cannot leave anyone indifferent. But no matter how delicious a cake or dessert is, it will become even better if you pour it with chocolate syrup. This ingredient not only improves the taste of any dish, but also gives it an unforgettable appearance. With the help of chocolate syrup, even at home, you can create a very tasty and beautiful dessert. Do-it-yourself syrup will be even tastier, and its quality will not cause you any doubts.

Chocolate syrup at home

We will tell you how to make chocolate syrup that can be stored in the refrigerator for 3-4 months, and at the same time, its preparation will cost you much less than buying ready-made syrup in the store.

Ingredients:

cocoa powder - half a cup;
water - 1 cup;
sugar - 2 cups;
salt - 1/8 teaspoon;
vanillin - 1/4 teaspoon.

Cooking

Mix cocoa with water, put on fire and heat, stirring constantly, until cocoa dissolves. Add sugar to it and simmer your syrup over low heat for 3 minutes, but be careful not to overheat. Then add vanilla and salt to the syrup. Let it cool and pour into a clean glass bottle.

The syrup prepared according to this recipe will turn out to be very rich and is perfect not only for decorating desserts, but also as a filler for milk. Add just one teaspoon to a glass of warm milk for a chocolatey drink.

Chocolate Syrup - Recipe

If you prefer chocolate over cocoa powder, we will share a method on how to make chocolate syrup from dark chocolate.

Ingredients:

Cooking

Pour sugar into a saucepan, cover it with water and cook over low heat until it dissolves. Grate the chocolate and add to the syrup. Mix everything and cook for 15 minutes, stirring all the time. Cool the finished syrup, pour into glassware and store in a cool place.

What could be tastier than a scoop of ice cream topped with chocolate sauce! But unfortunately, store topping does not have a useful composition. However, chocolate syrup can be prepared at home without the addition of preservatives and flavor enhancers. Recipes with cocoa are presented in our article. Here we will show you how to prepare a chocolate bar sauce and instant coffee syrup with cocoa.

Chocolate syrup for ice cream

Chocolate syrup is the perfect complement to any sweet dish, from fruit salad to a gourmet whipped cream dessert. And they can decorate cakes, pastries and other confectionery. According to the traditional recipe, chocolate syrup is made from cocoa. But many housewives showed their imagination here too, thanks to which new variants of fragrant topping with chocolate flavor appeared.

How to make chocolate syrup based on cocoa powder, you can learn from the following step-by-step instructions:

Sift good quality cocoa powder (70 g) to get rid of all lumps.
Pour a glass of water (240 ml) into a non-stick saucepan and pour in the sifted cocoa.
Put the saucepan on the fire and bring the water with cocoa to a boil.
As soon as the mass boils, pour sugar (300 g) into a saucepan, add a pinch of salt and vanillin (1 teaspoon).
Boil the cocoa for 3 minutes until the sugar dissolves and the mass begins to thicken.
Pour the syrup from the saucepan into a suitable container.

The chocolate topping can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.

cocoa chocolate syrup recipe

To prepare a thick chocolate syrup from cocoa, starch is added to it. It does not affect the taste of the dish in any way.

Chocolate syrup is prepared step by step as follows:

Cocoa (65 g), powdered sugar 100 g, starch (1 teaspoon with a slide), a pinch of salt are mixed in a saucepan.
All ingredients are mixed and filled with water (250 ml).
The stewpan goes to medium heat. Its contents are brought to a boil and boiled for another 2 minutes.
As soon as the syrup begins to thicken, remove it from the heat and add 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract to the chocolate mass.
The finished syrup is poured into a jar, cooled and stored in the refrigerator. From the indicated amount of ingredients, 300 ml of syrup is obtained.

Chocolate syrup with coffee flavor

This rich, moderately thick syrup has chocolate as its main taste, but it is very subtly set off by the aroma of freshly brewed coffee and vanilla. Chocolate syrup according to this recipe is prepared in the following sequence:

In a saucepan with a thick bottom, mix the dry ingredients thoroughly: cocoa (2 tablespoons), brown sugar (300 g), salt (0.5 teaspoon).
Pour water (50 ml), brewed coffee (150 ml), (1 tablespoon) into the dry mass.
Mix all the ingredients together and add a little milk chocolate (25 g) last.
Put the saucepan on the fire and bring the mass to a boil. Keep stirring and make sure the sauce doesn't burn.
After 2 minutes after boiling, the finished chocolate syrup can be removed from the heat. Immediately after that, it must be poured into a clean jar and cooled.

This topping can be stored in a sterile container for several weeks. If after a while it thickens, it can be easily melted in a water bath.

Chocolate bar syrup

To make chocolate syrup, you first need to boil the sugar syrup. To do this, pour water (100 ml) into a saucepan and add 3 tablespoons of sugar to it. When it dissolves, remove the saucepan from the heat. But that's not all, because we need to learn how to make chocolate syrup. To prepare it, 150 g of chocolate broken into pieces are added to sugar syrup, and then butter (25 g) cut into pieces. When the mass becomes glossy and homogeneous, you can add cream (50 ml) and vanilla extract (1 teaspoon) to it. The main disadvantage of this sauce is that it thickens very quickly. Therefore, for serving the next time, it will have to be heated in a water bath.

Chocolate Syrup: Biscuit Impregnation Recipe

Chocolate syrup can be used not only to decorate and improve the taste of desserts and confectionery, but also to impregnate biscuit cakes. But for this purpose it is prepared according to a different recipe.

Chocolate syrup for impregnation of biscuit cake layers is made in the following sequence.

We are preparing a water bath. To do this, put a large pot of water on the fire. As soon as it heats up, you should install a container of a smaller diameter in a large pan. We will cook in it.
In the second, small saucepan, cut the butter into small cubes (100 g), pour a tablespoon of sifted cocoa powder and pour condensed milk (150 ml).
With constant stirring, heat the mass well so that it becomes a homogeneous consistency, and immediately remove the pan from the water bath.
The syrup should be cooled a little and you can start impregnating the cakes. I wish they were still warm.

Unused toppings can be stored in the refrigerator for up to 1 week.

Syrup for your favorite ice cream is a delicious addition to a simple dessert. It makes it possible to give an ordinary dish new colors and flavors. The history of such syrups goes back to ancient times. Even in ancient Greek times, people preserved fresh natural juices with honey and added them to various dishes.

As time went on, the number of recipes also increased. More and more berries and fruits could be used to make syrups. Technology did not stand still, more advanced ways to create delicious sweet additives appeared. People started adding sauces to more dishes and spicing them up. Today it is hard to imagine a dessert that is not watered with a pleasant and tasty topping. But in order to treat yourself, it is not necessary to buy ready-made sauces. Much cheaper to make them yourself.

In the photo ice cream with strawberries in chocolate syrup

Coffee delight for the whole family

In many families today people drink coffee. This drink has become a familiar companion during the day for most of society. It didn't just happen. Coffee is a very tasty and aromatic drink. That is why it formed the basis of many desserts. Syrups are no exception. This coffee topping can be used to soak a biscuit to pour over ice cream or delicious pancakes. From this sauce will be crazy all the household. To prepare it, you will need the following products:

Natural ground coffee - 2 tbsp. l.
Water - 250 ml
Sugar - 200 g
Cognac - 1 tbsp.

First of all, you need to brew coffee. To do this, pour it into the water and put on a small fire. As soon as the drink is ready, let it brew for 20 minutes and strain through cheesecloth or a fine sieve. Sugar must be poured into a pan and caramelized over low heat. As soon as the caramel has become a light brown color, you can carefully pour coffee into it little by little. In this case, the mixture must be constantly stirred gently. Sugar should completely dissolve, and excess water should evaporate. It remains only to cook the sauce to the desired consistency.

If you want to make it more liquid, then boil it for a couple more minutes. If you want to get a thick syrup as a result, then cooking will take another 10 minutes. As soon as the topping is cooked, you can remove it from the heat, pour cognac into it and mix thoroughly. Now the sweet addition to the dessert is ready. Coffee sauce will perfectly emphasize the taste of any ice cream.

Pictured is creamy ice cream with coffee sauce

vanilla tenderness

The list of benefits of using syrups in the preparation of desserts is endless. But the main goal is to emphasize the taste of the dish. If you want to emphasize the tenderness, airiness and lightness of your delicacy, then vanilla sauce will be a win-win option. This topping is perfect for coffee ice cream, because vanilla will help create a contrast of tastes, soften coffee notes. But against the background of ordinary ice cream, such a topping can simply be lost. Such a fragrant and delicate sauce can be created at home. For this you will need:

Vanilla - 2 pods
Sugar - 200 g
Water - 200 ml.

The first step is to cut the vanilla pods and get all the pulp out of them. After that, you need to start cooking caramel. It is necessary to pour water into a deep frying pan, add sugar. Caramel is cooked over low heat. As soon as the sugar begins to turn yellow, you can add vanilla pods and pulp. Boil until the sugar is completely dissolved.

As soon as the mass boils, it can be removed from the fire. Ready syrup must be cooled. Once it's at an acceptable temperature, pour the topping into a container and refrigerate. It is not worth storing such a product for more than two weeks, so it is better to cook it in such small portions.

In the photo, ice cream with vanilla sauce, a flower and vanilla pods

chocolate delight

To date, there are various recipes that teach how to make chocolate sauce. They give very good advice, but often do not explain the difference between chocolate syrup and sauce. And she is. Delicious chocolate ice cream syrup will be made from cocoa powder. This makes it less caloric. But the sauce, which is made with butter and cream, is unlikely to suit those who protect their figure. To make chocolate syrup, you will need:

Cocoa powder - 125 g
Powdered sugar - 200 g
Water - ½ l
Vanilla extract - 1 tsp
Corn starch - 15 g
Salt.

In a small container, mix cocoa, powdered sugar, starch and salt. Carefully add warm, clean water to the mixture. Stir the ingredients until they become a homogeneous mass. As soon as this happens, the mixture can be put on a small fire and heated to a boil. In the process, the future syrup must be stirred.

As soon as the mixture thickens, this will mean that the syrup is almost ready. It must be removed from the stove and allowed to cool. Once the topping is at room temperature, add the vanilla extract to it. If the syrup turned out to be very sweet, then you can pour a little salt. Now the syrup can be poured into a container and put in the refrigerator. If you want to add zest to such a syrup, then do not be afraid to experiment with the recipe. Nuts, cinnamon or red pepper will be a great addition to the finished syrup.

The most delicious carob syrup for ice cream can be prepared according to the recipe presented in this video:

In the event that you want to cook something with a brighter velvety chocolate flavor, then it is better to take up the preparation of the sauce, not the syrup. It will be a great addition to any dessert. If you decide to bring chocolate sauce to life, then you will need the following ingredients:

Bitter chocolate - 170 g
Water - 120 ml
Butter - 30 g
Cream - 6 tablespoons
Sugar - 30 g
Vanilla essence - ½ tsp

Pour water into the pan and pour sugar to make caramel. Once the sugar has dissolved, add chopped chocolate and pieces of butter to the mixture. Mix the ingredients thoroughly for several minutes until a paste forms. Turn off the heat and continue to stir the chocolate sauce until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

Add cream and vanilla essence. At your discretion, you can add any alcohol that will only emphasize the bright taste of the topping. You can add cardamom or red pepper. This will give the chocolate sauce a special zest. Such a product can be served warm or placed in the refrigerator for further storage.

Delicious mint syrup

Mint syrup is a great addition to ice cream. In addition, it is very easy to prepare and can be stored for a long time. Such a syrup will be a great addition to a milkshake, pastries and any dessert. In addition, on its basis, you can create your own unique recipes for any other sauces. To make mint topping, you will need:

Fresh mint - 150 g
Sugar - 700 g
Water - 800 ml
Lemon (lime) - 1 pc.

In the photo, the ingredients for making mint syrup

To prepare such a topping, you need to boil a sweet syrup. To do this, pour water into a pan, add sugar and cook over low heat until boiling. The mixture must be stirred from time to time. When the syrup is ready, add chopped fresh mint to it. Now the mixture should be infused and cooled. To make the product thicker, add less water.

When the syrup reaches room temperature, add lemon juice to it. Mix everything thoroughly. It remains only to strain the finished topping and remove the mint leaves. The finished product must be bottled. It can be stored in the refrigerator for a long time and added to your favorite desserts. If you want to make the topping more tender and soft, then replace the mint with lemon balm. The result will definitely please you.

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