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Let me tempt you with these fudge recipes...

Fudge Recipes is a curation of the Web's fudge recipes, both cooked and uncooked. Here we have chocolate, maple, chocolate-mint, peanut butter, white, fruity and other flavors of fudge. If you don't want to make it now there is a ready made fudge "shop", too (in interesting flavors like key lime, Dr. Pepper, and Merlot). Host a fudge swap and try making chocolate covered fudge. Browse the fudge and candy making cook books.

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My Blackberry Cream Fudge Recipe

With Variations

This is a very easy to make, very smooth fudge that is hard to stop eating! The key flavoring ingredient is blackberry brandy but you could use any liqueur. The alcohol is not as strong as, say, a rum ball, but there is enough to add a little zing. The flavor is fantastic.

This would be great dipped in chocolate, too. If you want to try it cut small squares and then freeze them. Then melt almond bark or other dipping chocolate and dip the frozen squares.

Ingredients

2 bags of white chocolate chips (about 4 cups)
1/2 cup of heavy cream
1/8 cup of blackberry brandy
Red and blue food coloring

Instructions

Prepare an 8 or 9 inch square pan or the same sized cake pan by lining with Reynolds Rapid Release Foil.

Put all ingredients in a microwave safe bowl and heat until some of the chips are soft. I would try microwaving in 2 minute increments and then stir to see if it melts as you stir. It would probably be better to not cook until the chips are completely melted to avoid scorching. Get them heated and then stir until melted. That gives it a smoother texture anyway. You could also use a double boiler.

Stir in food coloring. I found that I needed about a 3:1 ration of red:blue. Start out with a very small amount of red, then a very small amount of blue. If you end up with gray don't panic, just add more red a little at a time until you get to a nice blackberry-ish color.

Pour fudge into prepared container and then chill until solid. If you leave it in the refrigerator for several hours you will probably have to set it out on the counter to warm up a bit before you try to cut it. Peel away the foil before cutting.

Variations

Instead of blackberry brandy you could try these liqueurs:

Creme de Menthe
Apricot Brandy
Peppermint Schnapps
Grand Marnier or Cointreau
Amaretto
Rum
Kahlua

And so on...

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Chocolate Fudge

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Aunt Teen's Creamy Chocolate Fudge: Cooked fudge but no use of a thermometer.
Alton Brown's Chocolate Fudge: The reviews are mostly good for this recipe as long as you follow it to the letter.
Paula Deen's Old Timey Chocolate Fudge: Watch a video of Paula making fudge.
Chocolate Pudding Fudge: This cooked fudge uses cook and serve chocolate pudding mix and evaporated milk.

White Fudge

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Trail Mix White Fudge: Dried cranberries and apricots, pistachios, ginger, white chocolate chips, marshmallows, evaporated milk and sugar goes into this cooked fudge. Cooked by time instead of temperature.
White Christmas Fudge: Basic traditional cooked white fudge recipe.

Maple Fudge Recipes

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Microwave Christmas Maple Fudge Recipe: Maple flavoring and brown sugar flavor this fudge.
Walnut Maple Fudge: This cooked and refrigerated fudge lists evaporated milk, miniature marshmallows and white chocolate chips as ingredients.

Mint Fudge

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Andes Creamy Fudge: Marshmallow creme, Andes mint chips and evaporated milk are some of the ingredients.
Layered Mint Fudge: A slightly cooked fudge using sweetened condensed milk, confectioner's sugar and peppermint oil for flavoring.

Fruity Fudge Recipes

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Cranberry Fudge: Cook the cranberries down in corn syrup then add evaporated milk, chocolate chips, confectioners sugar and vanilla and beat until smooth.
Strawberry Fudge: This recipe is flavored with strawberry preserves and is made like divinity.
Quick Holiday Raspberry Fudge: Sweetened condensed milk and raspberry flavored chips make this a quick fudge to make, indeed.
Spiced Pumpkin Fudge (Even though pumpkin is not a fruit): A cooked recipe, it has canned pumpkin, pumpkin spice, marshmallow cream, butterscotch baking chips, and toasted almonds...what's not to love?
Key Lime Macadamia Nut Fudge: This is a sweetened condensed milk based fudge with just enough cooking to melt everything together.
Peaches and Cream Fudge: Pureed fresh peaches, evaporated cream, white chocolate chips, butter, etc. going into this cooked fudge. It takes a lot of cooking and no temperature gauge, so good luck.
Lemon Butter Fudge: This one looks hard but really makes my mouth water to think about lemon curd in fudge form. If you make this and it turns out okay, send me some.

Peanut Butter Fudge

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Easiest Peanut Butter Fudge: Cooked for just a couple of minutes and no thermometer, this fudge sounds easy to make.
Microwave Peanut Butter Fudge: This sounds easy too. Sweetened with confectioner's sugar.

Peanut Butter Fudge Lens

Uncooked Fudge Recipes

Most of them use sweetened condensed milk

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The only cooking you do for these is heating ingredients in order to melt them together, if that.

Condensed Milk Chocolate Fudge: Pretty straightforward.
Raspberry Truffle Fudge: Double layered fudge that uses sweetened condensed milk and raspberry liqueur. Yum!
Irish Cream Truffle Fudge: Lots of butter, confectioner's sugar, chocolate chips and irish creme liqueur make this mouthwatering fudge.
Orange Cranberry White Chocolate Fudge: Orange cranberry is one of my favorite flavor combinations. Another sweetened condensed milk fudge.
Chocolate Butterscotch Fudge: A layered fudge with chocolate and walnuts on the bottom and butterscotch on the top. Uses sweetened condensed milk with chocolate and butterscotch chips.
Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl: Chocolate and peanut butter chips with sweetened condensed milk.

Make Chocolate Covered Fudge

Make one of the uncooked fudge recipes. After refrigerating until solid, cut into 1 inch squares and put on a cookie sheet. Cover and freeze until solid. Prepare candy coating or almond bark as directed. Dip frozen fudge squares in the melted coating. Let thaw (or not) and enjoy.

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Oh Fudge!

A Celebration of America's Favorite Candy

Oh Fudge!: A Celebration of America's Favorite Candy

by: Lee Edwards Benning

Amazon Price: $45.99 (as of 05/31/2012)

A candy-lover's dream, this is a collection of dozens of mouth-watering recipes for fudge and related sweets like caramels, nougats, and marshmallows. Every type of fudge imaginable is here, along with history, sources, and a section on how to rescue "failed" fudge. For most collections. BOMC and Better Homes & Gardens Book Club selections.

Fudge Recipes

Let me tempt you with these fudge recipes...

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

Host a Fudge Swap

My Blackberry Cream Fudge Recipe

With Variations

Chocolate Fudge

White Fudge

Maple Fudge Recipes

Mint Fudge

Fruity Fudge Recipes

Peanut Butter Fudge

Peanut Butter Fudge Lens

Uncooked Fudge Recipes

Most of them use sweetened condensed milk

Make Chocolate Covered Fudge

Digital Candy Thermometer

This is the most important piece of equipment you need

Oh Fudge!

A Celebration of America's Favorite Candy

Fudge and Candy Cookbooks

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