Fondue is a Swiss communal dish shared at the table in an earthenware pot (caquelon) over a small burner (rechaud). The term comes from the French fondre (to melt) in the past tense fondu (melted) with gender added in the phrase la raclette fondue (the grated Swiss cheese, melted), hence shortened to fondue. A cheese mix in the pot is kept warm as a semi-liquid sauce into which diners use forks to dip bits of food, most often bread. Whilst cheese fondues are the most widely known there are other pot and dipping ingredients. Fondue is most often kept warm by a wicked or gel alcohol burner, or by tealights.

Groovy Chocolate Fondue is a dessert made with milk chocolate chips, heavy cream, cherry brandy, strong brewed coffee, and ground cinnamon.

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Pull out that pot, put on the Abba, and start melting that chocolate. Fondue is back!

Tasty looking recipe for chocolate fondues. Suggests adding liquor such whiskey to the recipe, which sounds adventurous. I'm not a drinker, so probably not for me.

If you're a chocolate lover like me, you're going to love all of the chocolate dessert recipes I've just discovered. There are recipes for cookies, cakes, even chocolate truffle and chocolate fondue recipes!