Chocolate Fudge That Can Take Over The World
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- 3 cups sugar
- 2/3 cup evaporated milk
- 3/4 cup (1 1/2) sticks Margarine
- 1 12 oz. pkg. chocolate chips
- 1 1/2 cup marshmallow cream
- 1/2 cup pecans, chopped
- 1/2 t. vanilla
- Combine sugar, milk, and margarine in heavy saucepan; heat to boiling.
- Stir constantly about 5 minutes over medium heat or until mixture reaches soft ball stage (238 degrees).
- Remove from heat.
- Add remaining ingredients. Stir vigorously until well blended.
- Pour into greased 13 x9x2 inch buttered pan. Cool. Cut into squares. Makes 3 pounds.
Ladies and Gentlemen, this is not just a recipe I am bringing you today, this is ammunition.
~crowd widens their eyes and looks skeptically to the blonde woman carrying on as she waves a plate of fragrant fudge to punctuate her words~
Yes, you heard me right, this is ammunition. Put a good fudge recipe in the right hands and you can take over the world. You can get your car tuned up, your grass cut, your clothes pressed, your dog walked, and have the doors to any building opened for you with a red carpet rolled out in your honor. How do you do this, you ask? Just hold out a plate of fresh, homemade fudge.
Trust me on this. I have taken fudge so many places I can’t even list them all. Recently, I went to a social media conference and I was the one passing around containers of fudge in all of the rooms I was in. Did I take over the world that day? Well no, but I bet I could have if I’da wanted to! My goal was for folks to be happy to see me and showing up with fudge was an easy way to accomplish that. I can guarantee you that I got some pretty sincere smiles when I held out one hand for an introductory handshake and the other to offer a piece of this decadent chocolate treat!
This is an easy, no fail fudge recipe that anyone can make. Mama and Grandmama have been making it this way for as long as I can remember. Yes honey, that means you so don’t go fretting because I’m gonna have you being the king or queen of fudge in no time flat!
Can’t you just smell it now? Lawdy hon, git on in hyar and lets git to cookin’!
You’ll need: Margarine, Marshmallow Creme, Evaporated Milk, Vanilla, Semi Sweet Chocolate Chips, and Sugar.
“Did Christy even buy generic chocolate chips for this?”
Well, they were fifty cents cheaper than name brand so you bet your mother-of-pearl buttons I did! ~grins~
Place your margarine, sugar, and evaporated milk in a pot.
I like to get the really big can of evaporated milk so I can use what is left in my coffee. It makes the BEST coffee creamer!
You’ll need a candy thermometer because we are going to cook this to soft ball stage.
The candy thermometer will have that written on it so you know.
While that is heating up in your pan, take some butter or margarine and smear it all over the bottom and sides of a 9×13 pan.
Place your candy thermometer in the pot. Make sure just the tip is beneath the liquid but don’t let the tip touch the bottom.
It has a handy dandy clip that lets it hook onto the sides.
My poor candy thermometer is about as old as Methusela.
Bring that to a boil, stirring constantly.
Keep a watch on your thermometer so you will know when it gets to soft ball stage.
This is going to take about five minutes on medium high heat.
Once it gets to soft ball stage, remove from heat. Pour chocolate chips in.
Add in marshmallow creme.
Stir that up a bit so it will start melting while I tell you a story…
See this sticker? This marshmallow creme was half off. Now those of you who know me are likely already giggling right now because they know full well I have little resistance to a good sale.
I was in a local grocery store a month or so ago and saw this buggy filled to the brim with marshmallow creme on special. So I sashayed over to it and got two jars. But you know, those two jars did save me a whole dollar.
So I got two more jars…
I went on my way but it was still nagging me that there was an entire buggy just filled with half price marshmallow creme. Oh the times I have needed marshmallow creme! Okay, here is the problem, I only use marshmallow creme in this fudge so in reality I need a grand total of one to two jars per year.
BUT CHRISTY! IT WAS HALF PRICE! YOU CAN’T JUST LET A DEAL LIKE THAT GET AWAY!
~sighs in relief~
Oh, I’m so glad y’all understand! By the time I left that grocery store, I want you to know I had FIFTEEN jars of Marshmallow creme in my buggy! ~giggles~
I’ve been making an awful lot of fudge lately…
Add in your vanilla.
Pretend you don’t see that ring of dried vanilla around the rim of my bottle, okay?
Stir that all up until the chips melt. It is gonna take a few minutes but don’t worry, it’ll melt.
This is where you stir in your nuts if you want to.
I don’t add nuts to mine because my kids like it without. Once, when Brady was about three, Mama came by and bought us some fudge around Christmas time. We went out to meet her in the driveway because she had somewhere to be and Brady took a bite and went “MMMM!!!” and then turned his head and spit, spit, spit. Mama and I kinda looked at each other funny but didn’t think too much of it. Then he takes another bite and after a few seconds turned his head and spit, spit, spit again.
“Brady baby, do you not like the fudge?”
“Oh no, I love the fudge. I’m just spitting all of the nuts out”.
Pour into your buttered pan. Allow to cool.
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You can mix a jar of that marshmallow creme and 8 ounces of cream cheese then add 1 tspn of vanilla and have a really good dip for apples or any other fruit.
I always add a bit of lemon zest to mine too…soooooo yummy!
and some red food coloring and it is the prettiest fruit dip ever!!!
That stuff is addictive! I try not to make it very often because otherwise I’d never want to eat fruit “plain” again.
I’ve had that before too and I agree with all of you and now I am going to nicely curse all of you because I want it SO BADLY right now! lol
It is SO GOOD on a really tart apple. I have never made it myself because its one of those things that I fear I would lose control over, so I only eat it when we are out or at other people’s houses.
Mama made it not too long ago. I was not a good girl around it, either! lol
Cherrill, thank you so much! Maybe I’ll actually make it around here now!
Christy,
We share the same mindset about getting things of the world done through handing out homemade food. It sure seems to me that the doctor’s office/chiropractor always seems to work me in, the vet gives me free samples instead of expensive prescription and my mechanic practically begs to work on our cars….why? Well, cuz I make choc. pecan pies, oreo fudge, monkey bread, banana nut muffins, you name it, all to grease the wheel and hand it out to all the places where I do business. My, and your, strategy is the same, as well as the way we shop. “If it is on sale, then I gotta get……” ~grins~ ~waves, winks at my husband, the breadwinner~
Thank you for posting about your fudge, I make a mean white choc. Oreo fudge, but will try your choc. one too. Love the reference about candy therm. being as “old as Methusela”, as Grandma always said this and not until I was grown did I know the facts about him being the oldest man in the bible. Cute post as always. Best of luck balancing mommyhood and Southern Plate business, I know Katy-cat and Brady-bug miss you sometimes. Hug yo ‘self and family.
{{hoping you share your oreo fudge recipe}}
Why, of course, sweet Beverly!
You’ll need 18 oz of White Choc morsels (a pkg and a half),
a 14 oz can of Sweetened Condensed Milk, like Eagle Brand (NOT the Evaporated) , 1/8 teasp. of salt, 2 cups of coarsely crushed Oreo-type cookies. Just line an 8X8 square baking pan w/ foil. Then, in a heavy saucepan over LOW heat, stir & melt the choc morsels, Sweetened Condensed milk and salt together. Be sure to watch it closely, juuuust till it is melted uniformly. Remove from heat, pour evenly into 8×8, and chill for a couple of hours. Turn fudge upside down on a cutting board, peel off foil, and cut that bad boy into small squares. Store tightly covered/cool place! FYI, Dollar stores have little plastic treat bags, sometimes, ziploc with seasonal designs. I got 40 ziploc treat bags for $1 yesterday that are perfect for handing out a couple of pieces of Christy’s fudge and a couple of this Oreo fudge pieces too to the postman, pharmacist etc. Go ahead, make someone’s day.
ok, I jes’ plain got too eager to go eat some fudge and left out a step, so:
AFFFFTER removing the pan from the heat, THEN gently stir in the crushed cookies, THEN pour into 8×8 etc. ~face turns red~
This oreo cookies fudge sounds so awesome, can’t wait for the holidays will have to make these this weekend. Thanks foe sharing
Hey Terri, thank you so much for sharing that!!!
What a bonus your comment was! lol
That does sound good and how beautiful the platter would be with two kinds of fudge on it! My kids really like oreos and I know they’ll love this.
Thank you for always being so understanding of my juggling on this end, it really means a lot to me.
Sometimes, I miss Bradybug and Katykat, too.
I really appreciate the sacrifice they both make for SouthernPlate and do my best to make it up to them.
I love my babies.
I dunno, Terri…I’ve got a feelin’ you and Christy would make ‘n’ take stuff to these folks even if it didn’t grease wheels ’cause you are just great and generous galswith big hearts!!!
Christy,
This sounds really good! I will have to try it! I have a super easy fudge recipe that I usually make every year around the holidays! I could make it anytime, but if I limit myself to the holidays my waist line thanks me!
Thanks for all you do!
Dear Amanda,
Thank YOU for being so good to me!!
I’m like you, I normally never make fudge except at Christmas. But I’ve had to make it a LOT lately for Southern Plate! lol
I keep making it to take to events and meetings and such. It’s so much easier (and less messy) than making cookies so I guess fudge is my way of still being gracious but allowing a little laziness and ease! lol
Hope you have a wonderful day!
Christy
FYI, “fudge” according to Amer. Folklore is most commonly told that in Feb. of 1886, an attempt to make caramel was bungled (or fudged, as in to cover up or falsify) and become what we know as Fudge today. Yummy mistake!
That is awesome, I love tidbits like this!!
But Terri… ~sighs~
Now you got me wanting caramel AND fudge….
Hey, Christy! That fudge looks great. Makes me wish I had bought some of that sale marshmallow cream when our local store(here in Virginia) had a buggy full of it. They also, come to think of it, had a shelf full of it as well. Kinda makes you wonder what’s up in the world of marshmallow cream, doesn’t it? Anyway, don’t know if anyone mentioned this ‘sammich’ yet, but we used to enjoy peanut butter and marshmallow cream sandwiches~very yummy treat. Hope you all have a great week!
Mary!!
I have heard of that sandwich before and thought about trying it then completely forgot about it!
Now that you bring it up, it sounds more delicious than ever. Oh my oh my oh my, I have GOT to try this!!!
Poor marshmallow creme folks…but hey, we can get some deals! lol
Gratefully,
Christy
Up north here in PA, we call those sandwiches “fluffer nutters”.
YUM!
You are getting to be such a pro on camera! You make the audience feel like we’re right there with you in the kitchen. You are so much fun to watch, keep up the good work girl!
Thank you so very much! I’m really proud to wear your beautiful aprons! They make it even more fun!
Gratefully,
Christy
Hey Christy,
Thanks for the fudge recipe! I shop the same way you do. I actually go early in the moring and look all over the store for those lil yellow and orange stickers! It’s like a scavenger hunt, and I like to win. Any sometimes I end up with 10 bags of chocolate chips, but we eventually use them all. Nice to see a “real” person cooking, sharing recipes, stories and tips!
Keep It Comin’ Christy!
Ooh shopping in the morning is the best time! Last year Katy had a preschool that started at eight a few mornings a week. I’d drop the kids off and head off for treasure hunting just like you!!
FUN FUN FUN when you score. I’m like you, I end up with a gazillion of one thing but hey, its a deal!
I wish so badly I could find the large cans of tomato sauce for 20 cents a can like I did when we first got married. It was the 29 ounce cans and I bought two flats of them! lol
I guess as long as it thrills us, its good!
Gratefully,
Christy
lol I was thinking along the same lines as Mary! my kids love ‘fluffinutters’ as they are called here and ask for them all the time. NOT that I give in, but it never stops them from trying.
Hey Gina, right after moving to Pennsylvania from Ga, you should have been there to see our faces as we walked into a treat shop and they had a big sign up featuring a “Fluffinutter” marshmallow creme dessert item. I laughed out loud and joked about the word I thought was made-up. Then a local woman told me it was an actual product in the grocery stores around here. And they laugh at ME here when I call a shopping cart, a BUGGY. See ya in the baking aisle ;-}
so the fluffinutters are marshmallow creme and peanut butter sandwiches?
My kids are deprived so I need to clarify in order to rectify! lol
Christy,
You have brought back so many of the things I used to do but had forgotten about. This fudge is “sopt on” and I know my kids will find it in their stockings soon. Your chicken and dumplings are perfect. And Sooooooooooooooo good. I do not think my cardiologist would approve but I will not tell him. A girl has to “pfudge” every once in a while. Just keep the goodies coming.
Foustein
LOL Hey Foustein!
What a delightful person you are! I don’t know if you’ve commented before but I sure do hope you continue to comment in the future!
We just gotta make sure we eat good things on the day before and day of a doc’s appointment so if he asked if we’ve been eating right, we can say “Yes sir”! Hey, we could also eat with only our right hands and then you could technically answer yes to the whole “I’ve been eating right” issue as well.
I wish I was as witty as you in my comment but sleep deprivation prevents it.
Thank you so much for making me smile, hope to see you often!
Gratefully,
Christy
Oh -I most certainly would have bought that sale marshmallow cream too especially with the rapidly approaching holiday season. I have also made this fudge for years and it is nearly fool proof. I use peanut butter chips often as a sub for the chocolate and it is to die for. I have even on occasion made it into two layer fudge. Make one batch of the chocolate and pour it into the pan to cool while you make up the peanut butter one. Pour it over the chocolate batch which has now hardened and wow-you have double delicious. A little frugal tip I will practice from now until the holidays. When you are getting your groceries get one extra holiday ingredient in your order such as nuts, marshmallow cream, baking bits, eagle milk, dried fruits, whatever you will be using . It is not so painful as having to go buy a truckload all at once, especially when being Santa at the same time, and if you do see a bargain-all the better!
Elaine,
You are absolutely brilliant. I love the idea of buying up a little at a time for holiday baking. You are brilliant, I tell ya!
I’m also going to try the layered fudge – wow that sounds good! You know, I’ve never had this with peanut butter chips but I know it will be amazing. I just got into a habit of making it like Mama does!
I have lots of new things to try now thanks to you!
Gratefully,
Christy )
Oh that looks so doggone easy!! I can’t wait to try it! My mama LOVES fudge! She makes it a point to buy fudge & banana taffy every year at the State Fair. I hope she’ll really enjoy this!
On a side note, in reference to the first poster – I mix marshmallow creme with strawberry cream cheese and it makes a delicious fruit dip – especially for strawberries!! Mmm… Think I’m gonna have to make some soon!
By the way, good job on your savings. Just check out all my “notes” on my FB page in regards to my couponing and you’ll see I can truly relate to you when it comes to finding a bargain! Hehe
(www.facebook.com/mom22seans … The one who has been posting about all the yummy stuff from Southern Plate she’s been making lately!! hehe)
The banana taffy sounds amazing, too!!
I’m headed to your facebook page as soon as I finish here! I didn’t recognize you by Cathy D but soon as you said mom22seans I knew exactly who you were!!! (I only see email addresses when i look at sp comments most times because that is how they show up in my email account).
I’ve really been enjoying your comments!!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
I’m gonna have to try your recipe. I make my husband’s grandmothers recipe. It’s really good and creamy but you have to beat the heck out of it with a wooden spoon to finish it. Last time we broke the spoon.
Oh wow! I bet that is an amazing recipe though!
I don’t know if I’d have that much beating power in me but then again, no one nowadays can cook like our Grannies in days of old!
Hi Christy,
This is the fudge my family makes as well. Nobody can resist it, can they?
I’ve been thinking about you the past couple of days because of your apple tutorials. My parents have an orchard on their farm and this time of year is crazy for us! I’ve got so many apples and pears it’s hard to find walking room in my kitchen. Just today I made apple butter, honey-vanilla applesauce, apple raspberry fruit leather, unsweetened baking applesauce- sometime this next week I plan on making your Apple Dapple cake.
Thank you for your posts- I enjoy taking a break and seeing what you’ve been up to in your kitchen.
Yummmm, can I come over?
Absolutely! Come hungry but be warned- you may never want to lay eyes on another piece of fruit by the time you leave.
Thank you! I will show up with my sleeves rolled up, ready to help. I love working in the kitchen and between the two of us, I am sure that we could make a big dent in all that delicious fruit, using yours, and some SP recipes along the way. Wish you were closer, PA is a little far.
Oh wow, what a wonderful bounty you have!!
I know just what you mean about the apples though. Whenever I end up with an abundance of fruit I go to town a working on making things and putting it up with such pride and happiness.
Then after a while…your eyes start to bug out of your head and your feet sure to get tired! lol
This sounds wonderful though. You’re my kinda gal and I agree with Terri, I think we need to head on over to your place!!!!
I need to make me some more apple butter again soon. I mainly make it to giveaway and my stores are getting kinda low!
Gratefully,
Christy
Hahahahaha Christy! Guess what I almost made yesterday????
I just got too lazy to do it and blew it off. But it’s the marshmallow kind too.
I like mine with the nuts in it mostly but I like it plain too. Nice tutorial… Now, bring me some fudge sis!
LOL
Mary, we have to be sisters, there is just no way we are not!
I have a TON of fudge left and will be right over with a plate! lol
Almost missed you tonight. My husband hollered and told me that woman you like is coming on! Think you should take Brady to taste test your creations. He was so cute!
thank you so much, Billie! And please thank your husband for hooting and hollering for me!!
I sure do appreciate you watching!!!!!
I got such a kick out of Brady taste testing too, I definitely hope to have my kids in more segments in the future. I’d really like to have Katy but its a little harder with her being so young, someone has to take care of her while I am doing the other parts and I just don’t have anyone to do that right now.
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She gets a little clingy when other people are around and wants to be right at my hip
Thank you so much, Billie for watching!!!
If you happen to have time one day and wouldn’t mind, I’d sure appreciate it if you let 31 know you like them featuring Southern Plate!
You can email the news director at this address, he is the one responsible for having me on there! klowhorne@waaytv.com
Gratefully,
Christy
christy i cant wait too try the fudge it looks so yummy ,you are such a pro in fromt of the camera,have a wonderful day tomorrow .cilla
Cilla,
You are always so sweet and kind to me, thank you so very much for being your sweet self. It must be such a joy for everyone around you, too!!
Gratefully,
Christy
Christy,
You are a woman after my own heart, a lover of fudge and a bargain hunter. My son once told me that if nuclear waste was being sold at a clearance sale, I’d buy it. I love a SALE!! I personally don’t view 15 jars as excessive. Especially because they were on clearance. It is amazing how many uses you can find for a product when you have an abundance of it and going slightly past the expiration date before using isn’t detrimental to the final product in this instance. Since the holidays will be here shortly, I know all your friends and family would be grateful recipients of your yummy looking fudge. Incidentally, I made your apple dapple cake yesterday and was in heaven. That caramel sauce is wonderful. I’ll just bet you could find a way to adapt the recipe into a caramel fudge. Just a thought.
Jane! We need to join together against all of those who don’t understand us! lol
I’m going to have to show your comment to my husband so he knows I’m not the only one.
You should see me when they have the big school supply sales. ten cents for a box of crayons? I’ll take three cases, please!
Five cents for a bottle of glue? I think I need at least thirty or forty bottles! lol
Everyone is making apple dapple cake this week but me! I think its definitely my turn. I may make it tomorrow
Gratefully,
Christy
That is very similar to our fudge recipe. Only thing is the one we make you have to stir the ENTIRE time it’s cooking. But it makes five pounds. Have you ever substituted peanut butter chips for the chocolate? I think it’s the best peanut butter fudge ever.
HEY MICHA-
I WAS JUST WONDERING ABOUT THAT. FUDGE IS FELICIOUS, BUT PEANUT BUTTER IS MY FAVORITE. HOW MUCH PB DO YOU USE IN PLACE OF THE CHIPS? HOW ABOUT 1/2 EACH? IT’D BE LIKE HANNAH MONTANA – THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS!!!
I’ve never tried using both but now I’m curious if you could do a layered fudge. We always just used the same amount of PB chips as the recipe called for chocolate chips.
I’ve never substituted peanut butter for chocolate. I use a different recipe when I make peanut butter fudge but it isn’t nearly as easy as this one and I dearly love peanut butter fudge. I don’t know why it never occured to me to make this one that way but I sure will now!
Gratefully,
Christy
You know what’s so good? Making fudge with things like Mars Bars, Snickers and other types of chocolate bars which I don’t think you have there called Cherry Ripes and Bounty, which are a cherry-coconut and a plain coconut. YUM!!!
My co-worker makes fudge that is just chocolate (and chocolate bars if you’re using), condensed milk and butter. That’s it! It was so good. I didn’t like fudge before because I had a very rich fudge that was I think made with dark chocolate, but she changed my mind after she made her Cherry Ripe fudge!
Oh I’ve been shopping for you today Christy! I got the kids the only Australian ‘candy’ I could find.
Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
I was afraid I wouldn’t get to talk to you again before you left!
The cherry bars sound amazing, I’ve never heard of them. I have heard of folks taking their leftover halloween candy and chopping it up to use in cookies and such but fudge sounds even better!!!!
Getting excited!
Christy
Oh dear, had I saw this before I left I would have bought you some Cherry Ripes! They may have some in Auckland so if they do I’ll get a couple for you.
Atlanta, here I come! lol
Here is another way to use the marshmallow cream to make a fruit dip. Mix together 8 ounce cream cheese and the marshmallow cream; add lemon juice to your taste. This is not only good for fruit but it can be used as topping for other things like cake slices or chocolate pudding. Just use your imagination. Yum
~blinks~
~gulps~
Chocolate pudding? The thought of that heavenly concoction on top of chocolate pudding has me just about swooning!!
Thank you!!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
I can not wait to try this fudge recipe. I am never successful with any fudge that I try to make. I am hoping this will be the recipe that works for me because it seems simple and looks yummy!!!!
Hey Tonia!
I do hope you’ll try it. I hate to hear that you’ve had issues in the past and want to assure you that it is not you!!! YOU are a fudge DIVA just waiting to happen!!!
Holler if you have any questions and let me know when you emerge from your kitchen FUDGE TRIUMPHANT!!!
This recipe brings back special memories for me. My mother used to make it every year for Christmas. She’s been gone 20+ years now, and seeing this recipe has brought a smile to my face. I’ll be making a batch soon just for the trip down memory lane.
Thanks Christy…
Pauline,
Thank you so much for your comment. I just bet you brought a smile to your mother’s face today too.
Gratefully,
Christy
Christy – I discovered your blog a couple weeks ago (a friend forwarded me an e-mail about it) and I’m addicted. I honestly feel like we’re good friends already! Note that I’m that friend with a super busy full-time job that never cooks and hopes that her kids can thrive on McDonald’s chicken nuggets and apple slices. I think we’re a good balance!
I love that a lot of your recipes are similar to those that my mom cooked when I was growing up. Since reading your blog, I’ve made taco soup (yours was just like my mom’s recipe!) and that pulled pork sandwich crock pot recipe from your PDF. Super easy!
If you ever come visit Arkansas, come see me and I’ll make sure and have some sweet tea ready! (always make mine in the coffee pot, but I put my tea bags in where you would put the coffee grains – that way you never accidentally have coffee tea!). Thanks so much!
Hey Magen,
WOW, if you know about coffee tea then you really HAVE been reading SP! lol Hey, consider us good friends, I’d be honored!
And just so you know, my four year old is a picky eater and I give in and get her McDonald’s about twice a week just so she will actually eat an entire meal! Guess what I get her? Chicken nuggets and apple slices! See? Great minds think alike! I promise you that at the end of the day, we’re all much better mothers than we give ourselves credit for!
I’ll show up at your doorstep one of these days and take you up on that tea!!
I’m so glad you’re here, Magen!
Gratefully,
Christy
Oh – and I made your buttermilk biscuits! They were heavenly – tasted just like my mamaw’s! Thank you!!
Anytime a recipe tastes like somebody’s Mamaws, thats about as good as it gets!
Thank you for the ultimate of compliments!!!
I’ve been making this fudge for 40 years!! You can substitute a cup of peanut butter for the chips..and have a creamy soft peanut butter fudge!! Yum!!
Hey Susan! I am DEFINITELY Going to try that!
My family LOVES and adores peanut butter and it is awfully convenient to know I can substitute it when I don’t have any chips!
Thank you!
Christy
Christy -
You can make the BEST fruit dip with one of your “sale” jars of Marshmallow cream. Just mix one jar marshmallow cream with one softened 8 oz. brick of cream cheese (I usually use the light but not the FF – just doesn’t taste right to me.) Mix all together, season with a bit of grated orange or lime zest if you like. That’s it – it’s a great dip to use with strawberries, fresh pineapple, apple slices. etc.
Enjoy!
Susie from Louisiana
Now you know, Susie, oranges are a huge weakness of mine.
Big old naval oranges…I could live on them. They aren’t so good for my blood sugar though so I quit buying them because I honestly can’t be trusted when oranges are in the house! I once went to an SCA event for a few days. Those are camping events where you live in a tent and play knights and damsels for a couple of days. I stopped off on the way and bought a case of water and four oranges for each day and ate every blessed one of them! I pretty much lived on nothing but oranges the entire time and BOY WERE THEY GOOD!
Unfortunately, the days of being able to do that are behind me but I think I could manage the zest in this! (and look really innocent if anyone asks who ate the orange that provided the zest!).
~giggle~
Off the top of my head, I think this is like my mom’s fudge recipe. When I married and asked her for her fudge recipe, she said, “it’s the one on the marshmellow fluff can.” Nope! They changed it. So, she had to find it and read it to me.
We also made a straight Peanut Butter one just by substituting equal amounts of peanut butter chips for the chocolate chips. A half chocolate, half peanut butter sounds good too. Alas, I have a child with a nut allergy. ( Thinking: Maybe I can make it for the church festival and send some through quality control first. hmmmm?)
LOL
“Thinking: Maybe I can make it for the church festival and send some through quality control first. hmmmm?”
Beverly, you’re a woman after my own heart!!!
This is my mama’s recipe for fudge and people would line up around the block to get some every christmas. *sigh* Brings back good memories. Thanks, Christy!
I bet you were so proud to have such a great Mama!
I don’t blame ‘em one bit for lining up!
I’d be lining up for her cooking, too!!!
Gratefully,
Christy
P.S. Don’t you just love all of the wonderful memories? Almost as good the second time around.
Christy that fudge looks amazing! I think it’s just like the recipe my grandmother makes at Christmas!
My children are so happy that you’ve posted this tutorial, because now I need to start making fudge at home.
hehe~!
You got some lucky children to have such a wonderful mama who wants to make them fudge!!!
I know this because I was a lucky kid, too!
I love this fudge. It’s the same fudge my Mama and I make. And it was actually one of the first “special occasion” dishes I learned to make. (Because we only usually have it at Christmas time!) I live in Alabama too (Mobile to be exact) and I love all the recipes you’ve posted. I won over my husband and all of his friends with my potato salad recipe…. all of their wives are still trying to live up to it!
Hello fellow Alabamian!
In my family we are the same way, fudge is for Christmas!
This is the first year I’ve ever made it any other time. I don’t know why we don’t make it other times of year because it is so easy – but I guess if we made it any time we wanted it we’d not be the healthiest of people! lol
Now listen at you, admitting openly that you won your husband through your food! ~sniffs~ I’m S’PROUD!
So I just have to ask….why margerine and not butter? AND have you ever tried real mexican vanilla. I highly recommend it. It’s not easy to find (they sell it in Mexico in the liquor stores) but sooooo very worth every drop. It comes in a tall bottle and you keep it in the fridge. You use much less than reg vanilla and it lasts years in the fridge. Get yourself some, you’ll be glad you did.
Hey Kat!
You know, I get asked about my use of margarine a lot and the reason is really simple, I’m cheap! ~giggles~
Margarine is a fourth of the cost of butter so that is what I always go with. Maybe one of these days I’ll be rich and might be able to bring myself to spring for the real stuff but as long as the kids are eating and growing like they are, I cut budget corners where I can.
I have had Mexican vanilla once several years back and I can see why you love it!
I use cheap cheap cheap vanilla now, about 98 cents a bottle.
~sighs~
I’m hopelessly cheap but folks tell me its just being “frugal” so that doesn’t sound so bad!
lol
Gratefully,
Christy
Wow, reading all the comments about the fudge was great. And with the chocolate fudge,you have to have Peanut Butter Fudge. Wonder how many ladies hurried out to their kitchens and started a batch of fudge.
When I make my fudge, after I take it off of the heat, and place the rest of the ingredients into the pot, I take my good old hand electric mixer. That’s what I use to beat my fudge. Saves time and most of all saves the arms. I have even stopped cutting my pecans, and or other nuts, place them in there whole the mixer cuts them up for me. Don’t know if you will think this a good hint or a lazy lady hint. But it sure does work for me. lol
What you did with the clearance marshmallow creme? I SO would’ve done the same thing and stocked up! I do it when cake mix, instant pudding, Jell-O, or real butter goes on sale. The people next to me in the check out line always seem to give me funny looks…
Anyway, try this recipe to use up some of that marshmallow creme.
http://top-famous-recipes.com/extra/hostess-twinkie-creme-filling.html
It’s sweet, marshmallowy, and ever so salty… just like the real thing! I’ve filled cupcakes and layer cakes with it, or just spread it on top of a sheet cake.
I just found your website a couple of weeks ago and have fallen in love. My 3 daughters are begging me to make several of your recipes. Today was the dishpan cookies and they are a huge hit.My 2 year old son liked eating them up. This fudge recipe looks almost exactly my grandmothers. You are right about it being the way to take over the world. I have teachers ask for this as their gift at holiday time. Even friends who claim to not like fudge, love my fudge. It is so creamy and smooth. I think I gain an extra 20 pounds at Christmas eating the corners of the fudge (those aren’t good enough for gift giving
) Thank you for all your work. I have been telling my family and friends about your website. Wishing you all the best.
I meant to say I gain 20 pounds eating the corner PIECES from the fudge PAN.
My stepmother used to make this fudge at Christmas. She would drop hers onto wax paper from a spoon instead of putting it in a pan and cutting it. (We teased that they looked like Santa-elf poop!)
One year, she mistakenly grabbed a bag of butterscotch chips that was sitting aside for Hello Dolly, and poured it in the pot instead of the chocolate chips! I loved it so much, that she started making both kinds of fudge.
I think your directions are more thorough than hers, since I tried to make this once, and it was a disaster. I’m going to try this this Christmas. But once in a while, we’ll need a chocolate fix around here, and the kids start asking for some chocolate-peanut butter fudge. My sister gave me the recipe years ago, and it makes enough to pour onto a dinner plate, and everybody share–well, after I get my few pieces!
♥Susan
Fudge looks great and I can’t wait to give it a try.
My real question is about your plates that are Corelle Crazy Daisy. I have a chance to buy a full set of 8 settings for 25 bucks? Do you think that is a good deal and should I jump on it?
Thanks !
Sandy-I think that is a great deal. I think you are referring to the olive green delicate flowered pattern. If so that was popular in the seventies and is called spring blossom green. They were $20.00 per four piece settings when new. I bought two sets and my ex still uses them daily.My mom had the blue snowflake set at the same time and we thought we had the finest. I now have a full set of the buttefly gold pattern and still find pieces here and there in thrift shops.
This is so not helping me loose the 10 pounds.
I am loving all the recipes and am having trouble deciding what to begin with
. I was wondering if substituting butter in place of margarine will change the texture. I would like to try this in the next day or two. Thank you
Hey Shara!
Butter for margarine would be fine in this. I just use margarine because it’s so much cheaper. But you can switch with no problem!
GREAT to have you here!!
Christy
Hi Christy! It’s me again!
I just finished making this fudge (and licking the bowl! hehe) because my mama is coming to visit tomorrow! I got a little confused on the measurements so I hope it is as great as it should be – the spoon sure tasted good! I only found 7oz jars of the marshmallow creme and it looks like that’s what you used too but your directions show 1 1/2 cups (or 12 oz) so I bought 2 jars of the creme and kinda guestimated. Was it a 12 oz jar you used?
Thanks again for the recipe! I’ll let you know if my mama likes it. She’s going in for eye surgery on Tuesday (detached retina) and has to lay flat on her face for a good part of the recovery – I’m so thankful to you for giving me the opportunity to make one of her favorite treats for her before she has to endure that! <3
I’ve tried this recipe before and I love it…but I have to say my favorite fudge is Velveeta Fudge!
This one is much easier though, so I could (potentially) make it much more often:)
Blessings,
Michelle
I have a strange problem…..my love of sugary fudge! I know the ideal fudge is smoothe and creamy,but I happen to love that “accident” when the fudge turns hard and sugary. I’ve always had good luck with fudge and I’ve never made any that had the grainy taste of the sugar in it. Does anybody have this same love of “accidental” fudge? Or better yet…how do you make it? Thanks…I love this website.
Do you have a hint as to how you measure 1 1/2 cups of marshmallow cream for the fudge receipe. I had a hard time getting it out od the jar to measure it out. I know a jar is 7 ounces, but that does not make 1 1/2 cups. Thanks, Carolyn
Ilived in the south sometime back in the 60′s and my neighbor used to make vinegar rolls for us, I was wondering if you have a recipe for these they were so good.
O.k,am I mistaken or are the recipe suggestions no longer listed below the recipe posted? I MISS them! I get lost on this site!!
Gratefully
Christy
I should say I get lost on purpose..
I have made this recipe before and I made it with the peanut butter chips. Then I made it again this time with chocolate chips and poured it on top of the hardened peanut butter fudge making it two layered. Really good!
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