Fran’s Dessert Fondue

Prepare small plates of chopped fruit, cookies, and pound cake and serve this rich, melted chocolate sauce in individual ramekins for a do-it-yourself dessert with family and friends.

Serves 6

Ingredients

Dessert Sauces

Assorted fresh ripe fruit, washed, dried and prepared:

  • Strawberries, with husks
  • Cherries, with stems
  • Grapes, with stems
  • Pears, halved, cored, and thinly sliced lengthwise with skins on
  • Pineapple, peeled and cut in 1½-inch chunks
  • Apples, halved, cored, and thinly sliced lengthwise with skins on
  • Nectarines, halved, pitted, and thinly sliced lengthwise with skins on
  • Orange segments, peeled
  • Banana, peeled and cut into 1½-inch chunks

Assorted baked sweets

  • Madeleines
  • Biscotti
  • Shortbread cookies
  • Pound cake, cut into sticks or squares

Directions

  1. Pour dessert sauces into separate serving dishes.
  2. If serving sauce warmed, maintain temperature at the table by placing serving dishes over a low flame or candle, or within shallow bowls filled with hot water.
  3. Serve assorted fruit on a platter (or individual plates as described above).
  4. Provide individual long fondue forks or skewers for guests to dip their own dessert.

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