Homemade Chocolate Fudge

Recently I whipped up a batch of yummy chocolate fudge. Even though we’ve moved past the holiday season, the time of year I generally associate with this type of treat, something got into me and I wanted to try my hand at it. It may be hard to believe, but in all my 27 years I’ve never made fudge. If you’re thinking to yourself, ‘no way, that just seems like something you would have done before now’... I’m flattered. If you’re thinking, ‘no way, didn’t you help me make some during our all day Holiday preparation festivities last {insert time frame}’ …. are you sure that was me? I must of forgot. If you’re thinking, ‘no way, what about that time you brought fudge to our such and such Pinterest inspired jamboree’ …. I’m sorry I let you think that was homemade.  

Maybe you are just like me and you cook waaayyyy more than you bake. Tony and I rarely make dessert foods so even as a crazy, chocolate lover I somehow navigated many Christmas seasons without making homemade fudge. Well, that streak lived on until one odd day in January when I noticed the recipe on a can of sweetened condensed milk. I’m not sure that’s the best place to get a chocolate fudge recipe, but I decided to try it. Half way through the making of my first batch of fudge I decided that I no longer want to know what goes into yummy chocolate fudge. The ingredients in this rich, satisfying treat make my taste buds happy and the other parts of my body yell, ‘are you trying to kill us!” Little did I know that my lack of fudge making knowledge has allowed me to eat it without concern. Don’t ask me what I thought was in it. I was living in la-la –land. Now I will never look at fudge the same way again……I’ll just close my eyes and eat it.

The up side is that I try hard not to waste food…so that gives me a guilt free pass to consume this delicious treat lest it be thrown away! Right?! The down side is that I was already half way through the recipe before I realized it called for marshmallows. Marshmallows = gelatin = Tony taking a pass on my first batch of homemade fudge. Now I have a couple containers filled with fudge all to myself. I was able to pass off a couple pieces after dinner tonight, but it really didn't make a dent. Does someone out there want to share? Just forget all that stuff I said about the ingredients. You know you want some!  

Emily