and the chocolate sauce...

well, this one's easier :
1) 50g (not sweetened) cocoa powder (i use cadbury)
2) sugar ~ 70g (here we go again !!)
3) almonds ~ cut to small pieces
4) i spoon of vanilla ice-cream or 3-4 drops vanilla essence.
5)some butter
the beauty of making chocolate sauce lies in the fact that all measurements etc. are done on the spot. use your intuitions!!

a)take some water in a pan ( around 2 cups)
b)heat it for 5 minutes
c)add sugar...heat it for a minute.then add 2 spoons of butter and let it melt.
d)add the cocoa powder, keep stirring and heating till the syrup starts boiling
e)reduce the gas temperature and stir the sauce till it becomes thick. (an indiacation that you're doin' it right is : the sauce sticks to the spoon you use for stirring).
f) whenyou reach the state when chocolate aroma fills you inside out, add the almonds and the spoon of vanilla ice-cream (yeah! the dark brown colour just lightened!).
g)let it boil and then cool (gets thicker and better as it cools.

tastes heavenly with vanilla ice-cream {don't eat too much though!!}
:D
Jai Gurudeva.