Bittersweet Chocolate Sauce

An ideal topping for frozen yogurt or slices of fresh fruit, you can make this sauce fast and turn a simple dessert into something special.

Recipe Ingredients:

3/4 cup skim milk
3/4 cup Dutch process or unsweetened cocoa
2 tablespoons margarine
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup Equal® Spoonful™

Cooking Directions:

1. Gradually stir milk into cocoa in small saucepan; add margarine and cook over medium heat just to simmering, stirring frequently. Stir in vanilla; cool.
2. Stir in Equal® Spoonful™ , refrigerate. Serve chocolate sauce over frozen yogurt or sliced fruit.

Makes about 1 1/2 cups.

Tip: If chocolate sauce is not completely smooth, process in blender or food processor 30 to 60 seconds.

Nutritional Information Per Serving (2 tablespoons): 45 cal., 2 g pro., 5 g carbo., 3 g fat, chol., trace, 72 mg sodium.

Food Exchanges: 1 Fat.

Recipe provided courtesy of Merisant Corporation ® and the NutraSweet Company, makers of Equal®.

Information on the artificial sweetener Aspartame.