Ragged Coast Chocolates, a Maine-based producer of award-winning chocolates and artisanal baking mixes, has announced the launch of Ragged Coast Dessert Sauces. Handmade in small batches with local ingredients, Ragged Coast Chocolates Dessert Sauces include Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge, Salted Honey Caramel, and Rye Whiskey Caramel.

“Ragged Coast Dessert Sauces are fun and multi-purpose. They can be used as a filling or frosting, in hot chocolate and coffee drinks, and to top my favorite food in the world: ice cream,” says Ragged Coast Chocolates’ founder Kate Shaffer. “As with all our products, we’re exceptionally choosy about our dessert sauce ingredients. We use local Maine butter and cream, real vanilla beans, organic sugar, no corn syrup--and as always, direct-trade dark chocolate from Latin America to make these decadent and versatile toppings,” continued Shaffer.

Together with its recently launched chocolate-centric baking mixes, the three new dessert sauces are part of the expanding Ragged Coast Chocolates Pantry Collection. The sauces mirror customer-favorite confections that are the heart of Ragged Coast Chocolates. Just like the original chocolates, Ragged Coast Dessert Sauces are handmade in small batches with butter, cream, honey and other Maine ingredients.

Shaffer turned to chocolate after a cold and stormy winter on the tiny island of Isle au Haut, Maine. Far from her California childhood and at the edge of a misty forest, Kate paired persistence with pounds of direct-trade chocolate. Three years later, Ragged Coast Chocolates twinkled into existence.

Today, Ragged Coast Chocolates produces perfectly imperfect, award-winning chocolates, caramels, baking mixes, and dessert sauces in Ragged Coast’s Maine kitchen with the same detail and determination as that first winter seven miles out to sea. Handmade in small batches, Ragged Coast Chocolates’ products are made with local ingredients including butter, cream, honey, and Maine-milled flour. Ragged Coast Chocolates also makes vegan and dairy-free confections

Ragged Coast Chocolates Dessert Sauces are decadent dolloped over ice cream, drizzled on French Toast, folded into whipped cream (Voilà, instant mousse!), or stirred into coffee for a coffee shop treat at home. The Dessert Sauces pair well with other products in the Ragged Coast Chocolates Pantry Collection, such as Craft Chocolate Brownie Mix, Chocolate Cake Mix, and Chocolate Chunk Scone Mix.

Ragged Coast Chocolates Dark Chocolate Hot Fudge Sauce is thick, silky, and just begging for a special occasion, but you might not be able to keep yourself from eating it straight out of the jar. They start with Salted Honey Caramel Sauce and add a shocking amount of 65% single origin dark chocolate from Belize. The result is satiny sauce that is breathtaking draped over vanilla ice cream.

Ragged Coast Chocolates Salted Honey Caramel Sauce is light amber in color and speckled with real vanilla beans. They cook sauce slowly (to ensure plenty of flavorful caramelization) with fresh Maine butter and cream, and locally produced honey. The result is a richly flavorful dessert sauce that hits all the sweet-salty notes on everything from vanilla ice cream to chocolate cake.

Ragged Coast Rye Whiskey Caramel Sauce starts with organic sugar, Maine cream and butter, and brings it all together with a healthy glug of New England Distilling Gunpowder Rye Whiskey.