What's your favorite fudge recipe?
2I'm making fudge this year for the holidays. It's been a long time since I've made fudge. I don't even have my tried and true recipe anymore. So I'm on the hunt, show me your favorites!
FUDGE ME, MOTHERFUDGERS!
(One caveat, no wheat ingredients. Have a few Celiac sufferers on my list and would like to not poison them for Christmas.)
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Feel free to send me samples of the various recipes to taste test.
@bluedog Seriously - me too. I need a care package of fudge, brownies, chocolate chip cookies, oatmeal and raisin cookies oh yeah, and trader joe's fudge sauce (there isn't one in this entire state that I know of!! have to buy that when I am in Houston for my cancer check ups and I have already used up what I bought several months ago). Oh yeah and fresh blackberries even though they are out of season LOL. That should cover it. (grin)
I've never managed to make better than I could with the Carnation fudge kits. Recipe here; I didn't see any wheatie ingredients in it...
Alton Brown's recipe also worked pretty well.
Carnation evaporated milk used to have a good recipe on the can. Don't know if they have it on there anymore though.
1.5 cups sugar, 1 can (5 oz.) evaporated milk, 2 tablespoons butter, and a pinch of salt. Mix those ingredients in pot & bring to boil, then keep boiling another 5 minutes (stir it constantly). Turn off the heat & add 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, 1 bag (11.5 oz.) of chocolate chips, and 2 cups of mini marshmallows. Stir it together until chips & marshmallows are melted. Pour it all into a foil lined pan & refrigerate it until firm. Then cut it up and eat it. You can add nuts if you want (when you're adding the chips, vanilla & marshmallows) but I like my fudge smooth, not crunchy. For variety, I sometimes add a tablespoon of almond extract (in addition to the vanilla) & some chopped (and thoroughly drained & dried) maraschino cherries to make almond-cherry flavored fudge.
My favorite is the one someone else makes and gives to me. Hard to go wrong with chocolate butter and sugar.
@smoo99 Chocolate, butter and sugar. My three favorite food groups.
@bluedog And in the M&M variety chocolate is Vitamin M which is necessary for your health, well being and future happiness. My understanding it is that is not possible to ingest a dose that is too high. :)
@bluedog I'm more of a savory person, but butter (heh) is definitely one of the best food groups.
I've been wanting to try this one. Funny, I've had the page saved on my phone for the last week so I remember to buy the ingredients, which are just chocolate chips, condensed milk, butter, vanilla, and salt. http://thoughtfulwomen.org/2014/11/25/watch-happens-pours-condensed-milk-top-chocolate-chips/
Flawless recipe:
http://tinyurl.com/oe6q35o
@neuromancer That wasn't nearly as bad as I expected from seeing "lemonade fudge" in the title.
Thanks for the suggestions, everyone!
(Feel free to keep them going)
I did decide on what to make, here's the list! You will notice I have a love of Alton Brown.
AB's Chocolate Fudge
AB's Peanut Butter Fudge
AB PB & Choc Fudge (not swirled, but blob combined)
Cordial Cherry Fudge
Cherry Almond Fudge (white)
Candy Cane Fudge (white)
Creamsicle Fudge (white)
Yeah. This will be less labor intensive than the billions of cookies from a few years ago, but still - who wants to help me stir? I might let you lick the spoon when we're done.
@Thumperchick Mmmm PB&chocolate, good eats. "might let you lick the spoon" heheh.
Its hard to go wrong with an AB recipe.
I don't have the recipe, but I had some really awesome salted caramel fudge on Mackinac Island this past September. I still have some of it frozen. (I was saving it so my sister could try some but forgot to get it out while she was here.) The sample of the Traverse City cherry fudge was pretty good too.
You should listen to the Spilled Milk podcast episode about fudge. I haven't listened to it since I first heard it four years ago but I remember laughing a lot.
So, this just happened.
@Thumperchick unless you have milk… then you might survive eating it all at once...
@Thumperchick Awesome! I love AB, I took my son to see him in San Francisco and he came and said hello to everyone waiting in line. It made my son's day.
@Thumperchick Nice! That should be encouraging while you're doing all the stirring and scraping.
Make rum balls. Easier and they go over quite well.
@neuromancer I don't like rum balls. Keep trying them, they just keep not tasting great.
The one I don't have to make. Not very good at making fudge. Hockey pucks, OTOH....