Chocolate Syrup - Dirt cheap and no evil ingredients!!

High frusctose corn syrup.  It's evil and it's in store bought chocolate syrup - oh the horror!

For more info on why HFCS poison and how it's making us all fat (or why we have to fight harder to keep from gaining weight) please visit a previous post here.

BUT no worries!!  You can make it at home and it tastes BETTER than even the most popular store bought chocolate syrup (you know the one)...and it's dirt cheap as well as easy to make, too.

Homemade Chocolate Syrup

• ½ cup cocoa powder
• 1 cup water
• 2 cups sugar
• ⅛ teaspoon salt
• ¼ teaspoon vanilla

Mix the cocoa powder and the water in a 5 quart saucepan (or larger). 

Heat and stir to dissolve the cocoa. 

Add the sugar, and stir to dissolve. 

Bring to a boil watching carefully or it will boil over and make a huge mess!

Boil for 3 minutes over medium heat.  Be careful not to let it get too hot and boil over! 

Add the salt and the vanilla. 

Let cool. 

Pour into a clean glass jar, and store in the refrigerator.  If you fill the jar or bottle while the syrup is very hot and place the lid on immediately, it will form a decent seal.

 Keeps for several months, but I seriously doubt it will around for that long. 

Makes about two cups.

The result is very rich, so I only use a teaspoons for an 80z glass of chocolate milk.

I poured the chocolate syrup into a cleaned jelly jar.  Super cute!!