Chocolate Stovetop Fudge
Easy Chocolate Fudge on the Stove
Course: DessertCuisine: AmericanDifficulty: MediumEach year, we would make dozens of batches of this incredibly easy stove top or microwave Chocolate Fudge recipe. An all time holiday favorite, we would spend days making hundreds of pieces of a variety of fudge each year for our clients, wrapping them up carefully in cute little gift bags. They would start hounding Dave around Thanksgiving each year, raving about the different things we brought. This is an all time favorite recipe, which we originally got off the back of a Jet Puffed Marshmallow jar, named Fantasy Fudge. This easy Chocolate Fudge recipe is so flexible, that each year, we experimented with different ingredients creating many different types of fudge! We now use all organic ingredients, except for the marshmallow creme (and we decided to NOT read those ingredients!)
Ingredients
3 cups sugar
3/4 cup (1-1/2 sticks) butter
1 small 5 oz can of evaporated milk (about 2/3 cup)
1-1/2 cups quality chocolate chips
1 jar (7 oz) JET-PUFFED marshmallow creme
1 cup chopped walnuts or pecans
1-2 tsp REAL vanilla extract
Directions
- PLACE sugar, butter and evaporated milk in 3-quart heavy saucepan. Bring to full rolling boil on medium heat, stirring constantly. Boil about 4 minutes or until candy thermometer reaches 234°F, stirring constantly to prevent scorching. Remove from heat.
- Mix in the chocolate chips, marshmallow creme, vanilla, and chopped walnuts, stirring all together. Be CAREFUL as you stir as it can seriously burn you. You want to be very quick as well as careful in this step. Mix until creamy then move on to that last step.
- POUR immediately into wax paper-lined 9-inch square pan; spread to evenly cover bottom of pan. Cool at room temperature at least 4 hours; cut into 81 (1-inch) squares. Store in airtight container at room temperature. Fudge can be wrapped carefully and frozen.
- VARIATIONS Chocolate Maple Fudge (add maple extract), Rocky Road (add 1 cup mini marshmallows and 1/2 cup almonds), Chocolate Pecan, Chocolate Walnut, Chocolate with Peanuts, Chocolate Almond (add almond extract and 1 cup almonds).
Notes
- There are endless variations you can do to this recipe - feel free to experiment and enjoy.
- We also have a Microwave Fudge Recipe and Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe.
Sub out the peanut butter for 1-1/2 cups chocolate chips and you will have a wonderful chocolate fudge.
Almond – use almond extract along with the vanilla, can use slivered almonds
Walnut – add walnuts to fudge
Chocolate Walnut Maple – add walnuts and maple extract (not syrup!)
The variations are ENDLESS and very fun to come up with something new each time. If you blow it, rename a fudge with some exotic name “Mocha praline dusted with confectioners sugar” or something similar and they LOVE it! Or at least they claim to love it!
