Chocolate Gravy Recipe
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Chocolate Gravy is an heirloom southern recipe perfect as a dessert with biscuits and cakes. An easy, family-favorite recipe!
Looking for more easy chocolate recipes? You’ll love my chocolate cake, chocolate chess pie, and chocolate cobbler!
Chocolate Gravy? Seriously? Yep. It is one of those quick little sweet indulgences that was created by a very inventive and resourceful cook many generations ago.
Reportedly born in the Appalachian area of the south, chocolate gravy is perfect served with a plate of buttermilk biscuits and bacon. It really is hard to beat.
Thankfully, it only takes a few minutes to whip up as well. With just a few humble ingredients of butter, flour, sugar, cocoa, and milk, that most everyone keeps on hand, this chocolate gravy comes together in no time flat.
While chocolate gravy was originally served with buttermilk biscuits at breakfast, I believe it makes a mighty delicious dessert, too. You could even top add a little ice cream and berries and have a quick shortcake that is out of this world delicious.
But, just make sure you don’t knock it til you try it. You may be pleasantly surprised that something as simple as chocolate gravy can make your day even brighter. Because, you know, chocolate definitely does make the world a whole lot more enjoyable.
Here’s my chocolate gravy recipe. Make it soon. You might discover a new found love!
Chocolate Gravy Recipe
Ingredients
- 6 tablespoons (85 g) salted butter
- 1/4 cup (30 g) self-rising flour
- 1/4 cup (21 g) unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 cup (198 g) granulated sugar
- 2 cups (454 g) whole milk
Instructions
- Melt butter in a medium heat in a 12-inch cast iron skillet.
- Whisk together flour, cocoa powder, and sugar in a small bowl. Whisk flour mixture into melted butter until the flour mixture is moist. Slowly whisk in milk and continue to cook, whisking constantly, until the chocolate gravy has thickened to the consistency of a gravy or thin pudding. Serve warm with biscuits.
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
Enjoy!
Robyn xo
Robyn,
Holy Cannoli! Where has this been all my life?! I can’t wait to try it. Pinned.
Annamaria
Thanks so much, Annamaria! I hope you love it! Be sure to have hot buttered biscuits and thick-cut, delicious bacon with it. Oh my word! Over the top!
Oh my! This sounds wonderful!
It is absolutely one of those indulgences that you always remember and loved to see on those special mornings!
I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR THIS RECIPE FOR YEARS! THANKS SO MUCH! MY FAMILY WILL ENJOY THIS AGAIN! THANK YOU VERY MUCH !!!
Yay! I’m so glad I could help, Debra. I hope this brings back tons of fun memories for you and your family! Enjoy! xo
I love chocolate gravy!! My dad would make this for us kids for a special weekend breakfast treat. Loved it with butter on the plate, gravy on top (so the butter melts in pools in the gravy), and then dip it up with toast…just thinking about this this week!
Mmmmmm! Lucky girl and such great memories, too!
This was a big treat for my brother, sister and me back in the fifties and on. I also loved it on top of buttered toast, dripping with butter! Oh my goodness I can taste it now. I am a diabetic now and would have to eat it sparingly, but maybe I will make it on one of my family’s birthday. Wouldn’t it be goooood while on a camping trip! Thanks for the reminder.
Thank you so much for this recipe, my mom use to make it for me when I was a kid and no one remember how to make it. So again thank you!!!!
Oh, I am so glad I could help, Tammie! It is definitely one of those treats that you always remember eating!
Hello delicious! Definitely must try this with some butter cookies.
A buttered biscuit with a heavy drizzle is absolutely divine! 🙂
Anyone have a recipe for a melted chocolate that you can dip and rim a wine glass with? It stays slightly liquid so u can lick it. It doesn’t harden.
Hey Donna,
I don’t have one, but it is now all I can think about! Funny how that works. If anyone else has one, please do reply to Donna! (And me!!!) 🙂
Will def try it. Don’t keep whole milk on hand…so need to get some. Thanks. Pinning it for later.
I hope you love it, Susan!
I grew up in the foothills of the Ozarks. My Mom would make chocolate gravy sometimes for breakfast…the BEST ever. Sometimes she would make extra and use the leftovers as filling for cream puffs…very yummy
Having a southern granny, I was blessed to be treated to this as a Christmas tradition growing up. Now my own family loves it as a snowy day treat & even my brother makes it for his family too. We always get a gross response from those who have never tried it, but we always say what you said, “don’t knock it till you try it!”
It’s not like hot fudge syrup on biscuits. And it’s not like chocolate syrup either. I think of it more like a pudding that hasn’t set yet.
I hope all your readers try it!
There is nothing like it, is there? It is definitely one of those family heirloom recipes that is such a special treat!
Yum…what do you mean by melt butter till ‘crisp’?
Oh goodness! Thanks for catching my error. It should read to melt the butter. I hope you enjoy this as much as I have through the years!