Learn How to Make Chocolate Fudge! This easy, delicious recipe can be customized with your favorite flavors and mix-ins! Perfect for dessert or bake sales!
As a Chicago girl, we’re obsessed with Fannie May fudge and Trinidads. Make them yourself and you’ll understand the obsession!
how rich do you want it? The original recipe called for evaporated milk, but I don’t particularly like the flavor of evaporated milk. I substituted half-and-half and it worked perfectly well. If you really want to make it rich, you can use heavy cream.
Why this Fudge is Best
Wanna know a secret?
If you want to be invited to every party, all you need to do is learn how to make chocolate fudge and bring it with you to each event. I can guarantee you’ll be on every invite list!
I’m not saying it’s why my friends invite me to their get-togethers, but I’m not saying it’s not either. I’ll just offer you a piece of chocolate fudge and let you decide for yourself.
The best part is that it’s so easy to make with my Easy Chocolate Fudge Recipe, you won’t mind whipping up a batch for any potluck or holiday party.
Knowing how to make fudge is a trick you’ll use time and time again, so I thought I’d share my favorite fudge-making tips and tricks with you.
Making creamy chocolate fudge really only takes a handful of pantry staples that are easy to keep on hand for any time a chocolate fudge craving hits.
Of course you’ll want to grab some butter, sugar and cream. All of the best candy recipes start with those building blocks!
You’ll also need your favorite milk chocolate chips.
One of the most important chocolate fudge ingredients is marshmallow cream, sometimes called marshmallow fluff. I like using marshmallow fluff in my fudge recipes because it makes the fudge really easy to make. No need to cook sugar for what feels like hours on end!
How to Make Chocolate Fudge
Some “old school” fudge recipes make you cook a mixture of sugar, butter and cream to a certain temperature, then wait for it to cool down, then beat it like crazy until it’s creamy.
While it makes delicious fudge, it’s not something I want to do all the time. Lucky for you (and my family and friends), I’ve figured out how to make chocolate fudge with an easier method that makes fudge that is just as creamy and delicious.
In fact, once you learn how to make chocolate fudge with my method, I bet you’ll make chocolate fudge all the time as teacher gifts, for parties, or just to celebrate the weekend.
To start, place milk chocolate chips and the marshmallow cream into a large mixing bowl. Set this aside –you want to do this first because once the butter and sugar is ready, you’ll need to pour it over this mixture right away!
In a saucepan, bring the sugar, cream, butter and a pinch of salt to a boil and cook for 5 minutes, keeping it at a steady boil. Then remove the pan from the heat and very carefully pour the hot sugar mixture over the waiting chocolate and marshmallow cream.
Use an electric mixer to blend everything together for about a minute, just until the chocolate is melted and everything is smooth. Using an electric mixer makes this step super easy.
Once this is ready, you can fold in any extra mix-ins you might want or simply pour the fudge into a prepped 8-inch pan.
After a 2-hour rest in the refrigerator, your chocolate fudge is ready to cut and enjoy!
You can also make chocolate fudge ahead of time, even up to a couple of days in advance, making it the perfect candy to make for parties or gift around the holidays.
Once you know how to make chocolate fudge, you can tweak my easy chocolate fudge recipe to personalize it in any way you like!
Simply add in some flavor extract if you want or mix in anything from chopped candy to nuts to crushed cookies or even cookie dough.
- Cookie dough is one of my favorite fudge mix-ins! Stir in chunks of frozen cookie dough to make Chocolate Cookie Dough Fudge.
- If you love buttery macadamia nuts, you’ll love adding them to your chocolate fudge to make Macadamia Nut Fudge.
- You can even make your chocolate fudge a little boozy if you want! Swap some of the cream for Baileys for Irish Cream Fudge.
- See?? Knowing how to make fudge is a trick you can use time and time again. And if chocolate fudge isn’t your thing, not to worry –you can use these tips to learn how to make vanilla fudge as well!
What will you add to customize your easy chocolate fudge recipe?
Can I Substitute Heavy Cream For Milk – How to Make it Work in Recipes
FAQ
Can I substitute heavy cream for milk in fudge?
Can I just use heavy cream instead of milk?
What is a substitute for half-and-half in fudge?
What is the purpose of milk in fudge?