Title: Where's-The-Fat Chocolate Sauce
Categories: Sauce Lowfat
Yield: 1 Batch

3/4	c	Sugar
1/3	c	Unsweetened cocoa powder
4	ts	Cornstarch
2/3	c	Evaporated skim milk
1	ts	Vanilla
SPOON OVER
		Low-fat ice cream or
		Frozen yogurt or
		Angel food cake
GARNISHES
		Fresh fruit such as:
		Strawberries
		Raspberries
		Peaches
		Apricots

In a small saucepan, stir together sugar, cocoa powder and cornstarch. Add milk. Cook and stir over medium heat until thickened and bubbly. Cook and stir for 2 minutes more. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla. Serve the sauce warm or cool.

Yield: About 1 cup sauce.

Note: You can refrigerate any remaining sauce, covered, for up to 1 week. Reheat, uncovered, in your microwave oven on 100 percent power (high) until warm. Allow 30 to 60 seconds for 1/4 cup and 1/2 to 1 1/2 minutes for 1/2 cup.

Nutritional information per tablespoon of sauce: 55 cal., 0 g fat, 0 mg chol., 1 g pro., 12 g carbo., 0 g fiber, 13 mg sodium. RDA: 4 percent calcium, 1 percent iron, 1 percent vit. A, 0 percent vit. C.

Byal writes: "Attention, chocoholics. You can now stir up a fudgy chocolate sauce, completely free of fat, that rivals the real thing. Our fat-saving tips are simple. Use unsweetened cocoa powder and evaporated skim milk instead of chocolate and cream. To add silky thickness, stir in a little cornstarch. For each tablespoon of sauce, you'll save more than 100 calories and 9 grams of fat over hot fudge sauce."

From Nancy Byal's "Fudge a Little with Chocolate Sauce" article for The

Associated Press, in "The (Elizabethtown, KY) News-Enterprise," 09/15/94. Pg. D2. Posted by Cathy Harned. From: Cathy Harned

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