Are you looking for a delicious recipe to treat your family friends and neighbors to? This fudge recipe makes a perfect treat or gift for your friends, mailman or even the UPS guy!

Holiday fudge makes a delicious Christmas gift from not only your kitchen, but from your heart. Even if you do not think you can bake or make candy, chocolate fudge is one of the easiest candy gifts to make because you only need five easy-to-find ingredients or no special equipment.

All five of the ingredients for chocolate Holiday fudge can be can be picked up at the local grocery store, making it easy to incorporate the cost into your weekly or monthly grocery budget.

If you or anyone you know has nut allergies, leave the chopped nuts out of this chocolate fudge recipe. When in doubt, leave them out.

If you decide to use nuts, walnuts, pecans, almonds, hazelnuts and even macadamia nuts make this fudge delicious. The use of hazelnuts and macadamia nuts, while they can be pricey, need not be much, and they elevate the level of sophistication of this classic chocolate fudge recipe.

Once done, you can store the chocolate fudge in an air-tight container in the refrigerator for up to 3 months. Classic chocolate Holiday fudge can be frozen for up to 6 months when stored in an air-tight container. If freezing, wrap in wax paper before putting in air-tight container.

Chocolate Holiday Fudge Recipe

No ratings yet

Holiday Fudge Recipe

Are you looking for a delicious recipe to treat your family friends and neighbors to? This fudge recipe makes a perfect treat or gift for your friends, mailman or even the UPS guy!

Servings people

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 10

Refrigerate 2

Total Time 2 15

Equipment

Sauce pan
Rubber spatula
8x8 baking dish
Wax paper

Ingredients

3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 can 14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
11/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract
dash salt
1/2 cup chopped walnuts or pecans or almonds etc.

Instructions

Prepare an 8x8-inch baking dish by lining with wax paper. Allow the wax paper to overhang about 1-inch on two sides of the baking dish.
Add the sweetened condensed milk to a medium-sized, heavy-bottomed saucepan and heat on medium-low heat. Stir in the chocolate chips and a dash of salt.
Reduce heat to low and stir mixture until chocolate melts completely into the sweetened condensed milk.
Remove chocolate mixture from the heat and stir in the vanilla. Next, stir in the chopped nuts if you are using them.
Carefully pour the chocolate mixture into the wax paper-lined dish, making sure to distribute the mixture evenly with a silicone or rubber spatula.
Cool the fudge to room temperature then refrigerate at least 2 hours.
When chocolate fudge has completely cooled and set, turn out onto a cutting board.
Cut into small squares (about 1/2-inch to 1-inch cubes).

Author: Scrappy Geek

Calories: 500kcal

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Nutrition