Sunday, December 08, 2013

Easy Fudge

I am actually posting this while I am making the fudge.

Ingredients:

2/3 cup butter or margarine
3 cups sugar
1 (5 oz.) can evaporated milk
1 12 oz. bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 (7 oz.) container Marshmallow Cream
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract

Directions:

Lightly grease o x 13 inch pan

In a heavy 3 quart pan combine butter (or margarine), sugar and evaporated milk  (I prefer butter because of the flavor!)


Bring mixture to a full boil over medium heat, stirring constantly

Continue to boil over medium heat for 5 minutes (or until candy thermometer reaches 234 F)

(I don't have a candy thermometer so 5 minutes it was.  Maybe Santa will bring me one this year for Christmas.)








Keep stirring occasionally to prevent scorching


Remove from heat

Add chocolate chips and stir until they are melted (I didn't have any semi-sweet chocolate chips but I did have chocolate and peanut butter chips.  It didn't work out so well as they refused to melt.  I put my pot back on the burner with very low heat and had to stir my mixture like crazy.)








Add Marshmallow Creme and vanilla; mix well








Spread into prepared pan








Cool at room temperature  (90% of the time I end up putting my fudge into the fridge to get a more solid temperature.)

Cut into squares and enjoy!