Actually, I would rate this a 4-1/2 if possible. It just misses getting 5 stars from me because the flavor, while good, isn't blow-your-mind fabulous. Whereas I used good chocolate, the sweetened condensed milk contributes its own, unmistakable taste and over-the-top sweetness. We prefer something that doesn't have a tendency to induce diabetic coma! That's why I never buy commercially prepared hot fudge, which is so sweet as to be nauseating. I have a recipe that has a far superior flavor, which uses Dutch cocoa. That said, the texture of this is silken and creamy, the color is coal-dark and when it makes contact with something cold, it becomes properly thick and fudgy. Try serving refrigerated strawberries for dipping if you're looking for an elegant but very easy dessert. That's the other virtue of this recipe. By storing just a couple ingredients, you're always just minutes away from a taste treat. Even if like most people you don't use butter often, consider keeping a stick, cut in quarters (a quarter stick is what you need to make this,) in your freezer. In order to remedy the excessive sweetness, the next time I make this, I will use 1 or 2 oz unsweetened chocolate in place of an equal measure of semisweet, which should make it more palatable for us. Will report the results when I do.

Made exactly as written. Used with the Ice Cream sandwich dessert recipe.

WOW! So good! It's perfect and SO simple to make. The only problem I had was, where I live, I only find 11oz cans, so I used 1&1/2 cans. I used 2/3 cup chips instead of ounces and in the microwave at 80% power for less than 2 minutes. My chocoholic daughter ate this like soup. The only change I would make for next time is DOUBLE it!!

Is it so bad for a pregnant woman to eat hot fudge sauce....by itself? (cause that's what I was doing) So delicious, and super easy. It barely took any longer to make than heating up a jar of the store bought stuff. I didn't have semisweet chocolate squares, but fyi, 2/3 cup semisweet chocolate chips is the same thing.

This was a great recipe that I used to top a friend's birthday cheesecake the other day. The only change I would make is to not wait until the chocolate is completely melted next time, or maybe chop the squares up to melt faster. I think it sat on the burner too long. The flavor was intensely rich and dark, and everyone at the party loved it!!

Quick, easy, and delicious. Perfect for impressing guests with a homemade treat.

I've tried other hot fudge sauce recipes but this one was the only one that had that thick, fudgy consistency that a good hot fudge sauce is supposed to have. The only thing is that I doubled the recipe and next time, instead of 8 squares of unsweetened chocolate, I'll use 6 unsweetened chocolate and two milk chocolate or sweetened milk chocolate because I thought it could have been a little sweeter. If you like the not-so-sweet dark chocolate taste, however, you will love this. All in all, it was a 5-star recipe for ease, texture and taste. I'm happy because bottled fudge sauce can be expensive and this homemade version makes a good batch for less $$...and best of all, it tastes delicious! Thank you for sharing the recipe!

Good sauce.

Woah. This is great. I'm glad I re-read the recipe - I thought it was 4 squares of unsweetened chocolate - glad I caught it's SEMISWEET! Although it could stand to be a little less sweet. I might try with bittersweet chocolate next time. But there WILL be a next time! Yowza!

So I didn't even have all the right ingredients for this but it still came out sinfully..very good:) I can't wait to have the right ingredients:)

Great hot fudge sauce! I was looking for something without granulated sugar dissolved into it, because that type of hot fudge often gets grainy. This one was perfectly smooth and really easy! I'll definitely be making this a lot.

Not only is this very good it is also very easy!

My daughter and her husband were over for dinner. For dessert, she brought brownies, I had ice cream, but no chocolate sauce. Looked for a recipe and found this one. I had all the incredients, so we made it and was very impressed! I could just eat it off the spoon! Reheats well in the microwave. Great Recipe! Thanks!

I made it exactly like the recipe called for. I made a cake mix divided it in two & put into two 9"x13" cake pans. Baked for 25 minutes. When cooled I put on this Hot Fudge recipe and then poured over melted vanilla ice cream and put it in the freezer and it made two 9"x13" birthday cakes for my son. EXCELLENT!! Much cheaper than store boughten!!

Very good!! I had to cut the recipe in half because I did not have enough bakers chocolate, but it was still amazing!! My husband ate it up and he usually is not a big fan of hot fudge!! I would not change a thing!

Absolutely fantastic. Hard to believe something this easy is so delicious. I used the microwave for 1 min at 50%, stirred and repeated. I also used 2/3c chips and it was not grainy at all but, from previous experience with chocolate, I made sure not a drop of water or condensation got into the chocolate. I don't know the chemistry behind it but that can cause a grainy texture.

Great recipe! I was all set to make some hot fudge using evaporated milk, but realized I was out. I did have sweetened condensed milk on hand, however, so I looked up a recipe using that and found this recipe! I used fat free condensed milk, and omitted the salt, because I used salted butter. This was soo easy to make and sooo good, I think I almost made myself sick eating so much of this last night with vanilla bean ice cream! Yum! In fact I think I have to go get a spoonful from the fridge right now. This one's a keeper!

This was sinfully delicious! Very creamy and smooth with a nice consistency. I do think I will follow Alesiagirl's lead and use fat-free sweetened condensed milk the next time I make it to cut down on the fat. Thank you, Priscilla, for sharing this with us!

Tonight we had a craving for hot fudge sundaes. I looked through the recipes and chose this one because of the ease and the available ingredients. Oh my!! It was wonderful!! Just what we were looking for. Thanks for a great recipe. Definitly a keeper for late night sweet attacks.