Fondue recipe?

VARedhead

Ladies, I am intrigued by the number of you who stay home on NYE and do fondue. DH and I will be staying home for the same reasons many of you do, and I'd love to have fondue that night!

I'd be most interested in recipes for cheese and chocolate; is it just as easy as melting cheese/chocolate in a pot? It seems like it should involve more than that. We might even have a fondue pot at home, but I think you warm it with tea lights, which doesn't seem possible.

Thanks!

kastle

I usually melt on the stove & then put into fondue pot.  I'm not sure a tea light could keep things sufficiently warm, though.  I could be wrong.

For chocolate, we just melt & then add a splash of cream & maybe booze (like, bailey's or amaretto or similar).  You could probably just melt w/out the extras.  I do it over a double boiler.

For cheese, it's a bit more involved but my recipe never comes out quite perfect for me, so I won't repost.  I can recommend NOT having heavily aged cheese as the bulk of what you use.  Part of my problem is everytime I buy super aged cheddar & it just doesn't melt well.  I think if I mixed the cheddar with something more melty it would be better.  All that said, my MIL uses the "packet" cheese fondue (I've seen recently at TJ's & WF) & it's yummy & you basically just warm it up.

 

WinesNotWhines

For chocolate fondue, you basically just melt a bunch of chocolate and then add whatever else you want to it, like caramel or liquors or whatever. Super easy.

This is a good, basic cheese fondue recipe: https://allrecipes.com/recipe/cheese-fondue/. The recipe calls for Swiss cheese, but it's important to use a swiss that melts well, like Emmenthaler. Like kastle said, don't use an aged cheese. It won't melt.

We also make a goat cheese fondue that's based on one we had at a restaurant. It's great if you like goat cheese, and it's super creamy and basically impossible to screw up. Here's a recipe that looks like what we do: https://www.breadfarm.com/Lavender-Chevre%20Fondue.htm.

SoonToBeMrsDTS

I buy the cheese fondue from the fridge section at Trader Joes. Here's my friends recipe, she said it's really easy and good but I haven't tried is yet.

1 can a cheddar cheese soup, 1 small thing of helluva good onion dip, 1 beer and 1 lb of cheddar cheese

 

For chocolate I do milk chocolate and some heavy whipping cream. The large bars of chocolate melt better than chocolate chips. I have also added a small amount of peanut butter which is good too. 

My fondue pot is electric but I make the fondue on the stove and then transfer it to the  fondue pot. You could probably use a small crockpot too.