Mega Recipe

When you’re searching the World Wide Web for good fudge recipes, there will be more than a thousand choices for you out there. To choose the best among these recipes would be very hard work.

To recognize a good recipe, just take a look at the ingredients and they should be a very versatile recipe where you can make modifications to suit your preferences. Then you can experiment with it; have fun making these really yummy fudge treats.

Ingredients:

4 cup Sugar
1 1/4 cup Milk
1/4 tsp Salt
1 cup Cocoa
1 1/2 tsp Vanilla
1/2 Stick butter (butter is preferable over margarine!)

Directions:

Combine sugar, milk, cocoa, & salt to a large sauce pan. Stir just until all sugar granules have been dissolved. Boil over medium heat, stirring constantly until mixture comes to a boil. Once boiling, stir only occasionally. Once mixture has reached soft ball stage (approx. 234 degrees F.), take mixture off stove and let it sit.

Add butter, and let mixture sit until it has cooled down to the point where you can touch the pan with your hand and it is just warm. Add vanilla then stir mixture until it loses its sheen. Pour into your buttered pan and refrigerate for 1/2 hour. My mother used to beat/stir the hot mixture as soon as she took it off the stove…it always had a grainy texture because of this.

The mixture needs to cool a bit before you start stirring it. I tried this and find that the grainy texture is gone and fudge comes out smooth, rich, and just melts in your mouth! YUM!

P.S. During the step where you start to stir your fudge when you’re cooling it, this is where the fun part comes in and where you can experiment with lots of really cool and tasty options to make your fudge stand out. You could add in some nuts that you like to add and you could also add in peanut butter for a peanut butter flavored fudge.

Some would add in crushed candy bars (butter finger, etc.), Oreos (crushed) and they also sometimes top them with some caramel-flavored ice cream. One of the most interesting additions to fudge that I’ve seen would be those of gummy bears that 1 of my friends added to her fudge.

A couple of tips when you’re adding other ingredients:

1) Don’t add in lots of wet ingredients because it might be the cause for your fudge not to set properly.

2) Don’t stir the fudge overly much. It’ll get airy then it would not make your fudge set properly.

3) If you want frosting rather than fudge then just stir in lots of heavy whipped cream then continue stirring until you get a consistency where it’s easy for you to spread the mixture easily onto your cake.

For sure with all these tips, you’re going to stumble upon a really great fudge recipes which are truly your own. Have fun!

By: Jaydon Parker

Jaydon is a food fanatic! You can check out his very popular Fudge Recipes website where he shares some of his Chocolate Fudge Recipes and Easy Fudge Recipes