Easy Fudge
Easy Fudge is a quick and easy delicious recipe. Making it into a Christmas wreath is so simple. It is great to serve as a holiday dessert and it also is a perfect holiday gift!
Servings: 12 servings
Ingredients
- 1 bag (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- 1 cup butterscotch chips
- 1 can (14 ounces) sweetened condensed milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 8 ounces chopped walnuts
- 2 cups marshmallows
- red, white and green gumdrops
Instructions
- Before starting, line your 9 inch cake pan with foil or parchment paper.
- Place chocolate and butterscotch chips into a medium sized pot with the sweetened condensed milk on the stovetop.
- On low to medium heat, melt the chocolate and butterscotch chips and combine with the sweetened condensed milk until it is smooth. Stir often.
- Save the empty condensed milk can and cover in foil or a plastic sandwich bag. Place the can in the center of the covered cake pan.
- Stir in the vanilla and remove pot from the heat. Add in the nuts and marshmallows and stir until mixed in well.
- Spoon into your prepared cake pan around the covered sweetened condensed milk can, keeping the can in the center.
- If adding gumdrops for the berries, add them right away as the fudge will set very quickly.
- Chill in the refrigerator for 3-4 hours or until the fudge sets.
- Serve fudge in small slices.
- Store fudge covered either in the refrigerator or at room temperature.
Notes
- Make sure to line your cake pan before you start. This helps the fudge come out of the pan easier and also makes for easy clean up.
- When melting the chocolate chips, make sure to use low to medium heat and stir often. Overheating the chocolate chips will make it too thick. The chocolate mixture should be smooth and creamy.
- If you like to have some marshmallow pieces in the fudge instead of it all melted, stir until you have just some of the marshmallows melted and leave some visible pieces of marshmallow in the pot.
- Save the sweetened condensed milk can to make the center of the wreath. Cover it with foil or a plastic sandwich bag and place it in the center of the pan. If it shifts a little while adding in the fudge, just move it back to the center.
- Make sure the can is facing up so any excess sweetened condensed milk does not drip out into the pan.
- To make it look more like a wreath, place the fudge into the pan without smoothing off the top. Give it more of a coarse look to resemble a wreath.
- If decorating the wreath with gumdrops, add them immediately after placing the fudge into the pan as the fudge will start to set quickly.
- A bow made from fabric or ribbon can be added to make the wreath look more festive.
- Want to make the fudge and not the wreath? You can do that by using an 8x8 pan instead of the round cake pan.