The Best Damn Wine-Spiked Chocolate Fondue Recipe

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There's something incredibly sexy about melted chocolate. Maybe it's the way it flows, like satin sheets. Or the way it slowly and sensually embraces everything it touches. Perhaps it's because eating it invariably means licking. Lots of licking.

All of these are good enough reasons to serve your lover chocolate fondue. Add red wine into the mix and who knows where the night will take you. Maybe nowhere but at least you gave it a good shot, pal.

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Cocoa vin recipe

Total Time: 15 minutes
Yield: 2-4 servings

INGREDIENTS:
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 12 ounces bittersweet baking chocolate, chopped
  • ¼ cup red wine
  • Fresh fruit, pound cake, and brownies for serving
DIRECTIONS:
  • In a medium saucepan, combine cream, butter, and vanilla. Heat over medium heat until the mixture simmers. Remove from heat; stir in the chocolate and wine until completely melted and smooth.
  • Serve over a heat source that will keep the fondue warm, but not hot.
  • Skewer fruit and cakes and dip into the warm chocolate.
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Perry Santanachote is Thrillist's recipes editor and wants a chocolate fountain for Valentine's Day. Follow her at @perrysant.