Fondue Friday: Basic Chocolate Fondue

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Basic Chocolate Fondue:
3/4 cup heavy cream
1 bag semisweet chocolate chips (12oz)
1 tsp vanilla

Heat the cream in a saucepan till warm, add chocolate chips and stir until melted and smooth. Add vanilla. You don't need a fondue pot for this one. Just make sure you start with cream and then add the chocolate. You could transfer to a fondue pot after melting, but we found that it stayed creamy for about thirty minutes after we took it off the heat. Which was plenty of time for my children to devour it. Our table is rather large so it is hard for all of us to hover over a single fondue pot; to problem solve, I gave each of my kids their own little pot with their own little stash of dippables.

We dipped Strawberries, Bananas and Pretzels.