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in Christmas· Christmas Recipes· recipes

Never Fail Fudge

Today I’m sharing my son Colin’s favorite Christmas treat – Never Fail Fudge. This simple and rich, chocolate dessert melts in your mouth. You’ll have to hide it to make it last til Christmas!

*Today’s post is part of the 12 Days of Christmas series hosted by Intelligent Domestications and My Pinterventures. Click here to see all of the previous topics and meet the other participants!

My mom was a Christmas sweets maker. She loved to spend time making pretty candies like homemade caramels, divinity, and toffee – and baked pans and pans of delicious squares and cookies.

Then, she carefully lined Christmas card boxes (remember them?) with waxed paper and arranged a variety of treats to give away. School teachers, mailmen,  Sunday School teachers, and UPS drivers were gifted her special boxed sweets.

She always had an extra stock in the freezer to pull out whenever the need arose.

“Mom!”, we’d barge in the door saying,

“I forgot to tell you I have to take a plate of goodies for tomorrow’s Christmas program!”

That never phased her. She just went to the freezer and got out some of the “stash”!;)

I quickly realized though, that without all the taking and giving of the gifts – baking sweets for weeks on end for our little family just added weight to our scales!

So, I limit my baking to our family favorites…and then try to keep myself from eating it all! Along with today’s recipe, I like to make Rolled Sugar Cookies, Dipped Chocolates, Steamed Pudding Christmas Dessert, and Christmas morning Swedish Tea Ring.

This recipe is my youngest son’s favorite, and he never fails to ask when I’m going to make it!;)

Collage of pictures of stacked pieces of chocolate fudge

 

Never Fail Fudge

Assemble the Ingredients:

Chocolate Fudge Ingredients

For this recipe (that makes 36 pieces), you’ll need:

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 2/3 cups evaporated milk
  • 1/2 cup butter
  • 12 large marshmallows
  • Dash of Salt
  • 1 2/3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
  • 1 tsp. vanilla

Prepare the pan

Wax-paper lined pan for chocolate fudge

Line a 8×8 inch pan with wax-paper. I used a glass pan for this batch, but I recommend a metal one. I found it difficult to remove the wax paper from this glass pan!

Combine first five ingredients in a saucepan.

Ingredients for chocolate fudge in a saucepan

In a medium saucepan, combine the sugar, evaporated milk, butter, marshmallows and salt.

Stirring heated ingredients on a stovetop for chocolate fudge

Stir over medium heat until marshmallows are melted and mixture comes to a boil; boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. (Stir continually so mixture won’t stick to the bottom.)

Remove from heat and stir in the chocolate chips & vanilla

Pouring chocolate chips into chocolate fudge heated ingredients

Pour the chocolate chips and vanilla into the hot liquid. Stir in quickly to melt the chocolate chips- until the mixture is smooth and glossy.

Pour fudge into wax-paper lined pan

Chocolate fudge in a pan

Work quickly, as the fudge firms up faster than you think it would! Once poured into the pan, place in the fridge to cool.

Once cooled, remove from pan and cut into small squares.

Chocolate fudge being cut into squares

Garnish with nuts, if desired

Chocolate Fudge with Almond Sprinkles

You can garnish each piece of fudge with a single pecan or chopped almonds – or just leave them plain.

Stovetop Chocolate Fudge with Almond Sprinkles

They are certainly delicious either way!

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  1. Cherryl Ehlenburg says

    December 2, 2019 at 11:56 am

    This looks delicious! I will have to try it!

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  2. Marie says

    December 2, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    You had me at never fail! I’ve never made fudge before because I remember my mom struggling to make them when I was a child. I just assumed fudge is super hard to make. Reading your recipe I walked away feeling like I CAN DO THIS! Thanks for the recipe! Pinned

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  3. Rachelle says

    December 4, 2019 at 4:35 pm

    Your fudge looks yummy and the pictures are great!

    Reply

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