Chocolate Gravy is a Southern classic for breakfast, brunch, or dessert. It’s a rich and buttery chocolate sauce that’s best served warm over hot biscuits!
Chocolate Gravy
If you haven’t had chocolate gravy before, you are in for a real treat. This is a sweet gravy that’s silky smooth, sweet, and rich. It tastes like Chocolate Pudding Pie. Have you ever eaten the filling for a chocolate pudding pie?
My husband loves it. He was brought up on this southern breakfast food that his grandmother made. We tweaked her chocolate gravy recipe.
My boys will perform circus tricks for this treat – seriously!! They like it best with warm buttermilk biscuits or chocolate biscuits. However, I prefer it in a bowl. By itself. No biscuit. Saving calories. Straight chocolate. (Hey, don’t judge – I ran 8 miles this a.m.)
Melt butter in a saucepan.
Add cocoa and stir.
Add flour and stir. Cook 2 minutes.
Add sugar and stir. Cook until sugar dissolves.
Add milk and whisk lumps out.
Bring to a boil. Boil a couple of minutes then simmer.
Add vanilla and stir.
Pour over hot buttermilk biscuits!
The mix makes a great gift. Get the details here> Chocolate Gravy Mix Gift.
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Southern Chocolate Gravy
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- saucepan
Ingredients
- 1/2 cup real butter no substitutions recommended
- 1/4 cup cocoa
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup self-rising flour
- 3 cup milk
Instructions
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Notes
Nutrition
Serve your chocolate gravy over fluffy Buttermilk Biscuits!
Another old fashioned treat is Donuts from Canned Biscuits
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Glenda says
What a deliciously decadent breakfast! We made biscuits and this chocolate gravy for weekend guests. What a hit! Thank you!
Jade says
This chocolate gravy is just so exceptional and pairs well with every biscuits!
Gina Abernathy says
So delicious and perfect over a hot biscuit!
Karen Webber says
I have never heard of this but would like to try it. I assume that “cocoa” means unsweetened, powdered cocoa. Is that correct?
Paula says
Yes, it is.
Scarlet says
This recipe is just like my Ma used to make. Delish! Biscuits with chocolate gravy are such a treat.
Allyssa says
Thanks a lot for sharing this idea! So tasty and easy to make! Loved it and will surely make it again!
Toni | Boulder Locavore says
My family will surely love this!
Dorothy Reinhold says
Growing up we would go visit my aunt and uncle. She would treat us with chocolate gravy and biscuits for breakfast. I had forgotten about it until your post. I can’t wait to introduce this to my kids!
Paula says
I had always heard about it growing up but my family didn’t make it. My husband did and now it’s our Saturday breakfast every week. 🙂
DeeDee Bolander says
My mother in law use to make this….she had 5 hungry boys to feed!
I mix the dry ingredients together with a pinch of salt…then add enough
water, stirring to the right consistancey for gravy while cooking. Then I add
the butter and vanilla at the end…..no lumps.
Paula Jones says
Christina, I hope you like it. We usually have it every Saturday, but missed today so we'll be having it as well tomorrow! enjoy!
Christina Allred says
I haven't had this stuff in years, and no one could remember my great grandma's exact recipe. I can't wait to give this a whirl in the morning! 🙂
Danni Baird @ Silo Hill Farm says
Oh my gosh! My brother-in-law (from Alabama) made this for everyone at our family reunion! It was to die for! Thanks for sharing the recipe!
Anonymous says
I grew up with this. My grandmother made it for us and my mother makes it as well. It's delish!
Michelles Tasty Creations says
Paula, This looks delish! I never would have thought to make Chocolate Gravy but the other day I was browsing the blogs and found Chocolate biscuits so why not? Thanks so much for linking up to Creative Thursday this week. I can’t wait to see what you link up next week. Have a great weekend.
Michelle
Angie says
I found you at Michelle's Tasty Creations and thought I would leave you comment. My sister-in-law brags all the time about making chocolate gravy….I'm going to give your recipe a try and then rub it into my sister-in-law. “Ha, I made chocolate gravy!” I'm Angie, by the way, over at A'lil Country Sugar. http://www.alilcountrysugar.blogspot.com
Jaclyn says
I had been searching for a good chocolate gravy recipe for a long time, thank you!!