Chocolate Fondue for Easter & Spring Entertaining

Easter 2016. My cousin’s oven died mid-ham, smoke alarms bleating like offended geese, and fifteen people stood in my kitchen staring at raw dough and defeat. That’s when I dragged out the chipped fondue pot I’d sworn never to use again—circa 2004, wedding registry mistake—and melted every chocolate bar I could scrounge from the pantry. Chocolate Fondue wasn’t planned; it was survival. The smell of scorching plastic from the nearly-melted pot handle still haunts me, but that night something shifted. No one cared about the half-baked ham. They crowded around that bubbling cauldron of dark chocolate and cream, dipping strawberries … Find out more