![]() If you have ever Googled or rooted around Pinterest looking at glorious images of fudge of every possible flavour, with additions such as chocolate, crumbled cookies, marshmallows, fruit, nuts you name it, the combinations have been well documented. Fatal mistake, there is no such thing as onlyone more chunk of fudge… I want my fudge to melt in the mouth like butter, but have more substance – it should be creamy, rich and make you groan with pleasure as you eat just one more chunk. Problem is, if flaky, crumbly textures make your teeth itch like mine, then you are going to be disappointed in the extreme! There are plenty of recipes out there for tablet and many, many lovers of the stuff but for me, the perfect fudge is soft and luscious, without a grain in sight. Tablet is a Scottish confection which uses double the quantity of sugar that fudge does but otherwise, the method is often very similar. I’m sure I’m not the only one to have made that mistake when searching for the magic method to deliver creamy fudginess so let me explain. One thing to be clear about from the start is this is fudge, not tablet. It’s taken a lot of time and a lot of flaky, grainy, unpalatable batches of supposed fudge to find the winning recipe. I hope you love this Christmas fudge recipe as much as my family and I do.Proper, traditional, soft & creamy real vanilla fudge. Cover the pan tightly with plastic wrap and you can store it in the fridge for up to 2 weeks or in the freezer for up to 3 months! If you freeze it, thaw it in the fridge overnight before cutting it into squares. Once the fudge has been cooked and cooled, it keeps very well. We are sweetening it ourselves with unrefined sugars - maple syrup and coconut sugar - so using chocolate chips or a bar already sweetened would be overkill. Though we’ve talked about all the other ingredients, the star of this recipe is really chocolate! In this recipe it is important to use 100% unsweetened baking chocolate (I like Guittard). If attempting with almond butter, I’d try to use as fine a grind as possible to maintain the smooth texture as best you can. Using peanut butter will give you a classic chocolate peanut butter fudge square and using sunflower seed butter will be similar. ![]() If you’d like to sub the cashew butter for another nut or seed butter that you tolerate, you can, but the flavor will change. Since I know I will be asked, yes, you can substitute the arrowroot powder for tapioca flour! I haven’t tested it that way, but it should work just fine. These ingredients together stabilize the fudge, giving it that solid consistency that makes it so rich and cut-able into perfect squares of decadence! Instead of condensed milk, my recipe relies upon a concoction of cashew butter (I like to use Artisana in this recipe), coconut oil, arrowroot, maple syrup, and coconut sugar. Since it is thick and sweet, it is an easy way to make traditional fudge, but is decidedly NOT dairy-free. So many traditional fudge recipes rely upon condensed milk, which is cow’s milk with the water removed and tons of sugar added. I hope you get to enjoy some this year, and for years to come, with your family! ![]() It’s from my book, Celebrations, in the Christmas recipe section and it still makes a beautiful gift for the holiday season. When I asked my mom for Grandma’s fudge recipe it turned out she was using the one from the marshmallow fluff jar for decades! Instead of going to the trouble of making homemade, gluten-free marshmallows, I came up with this simple eight-ingredient, rich and chocolatey, Dairy-Free Fudge recipe. I knew I needed to recreate it to carry on those Christmas time memories with my own children and that’s how this Dairy-Free Fudge recipe was born. This special treat will always be a part of the fabric of the holiday season for me! So when I changed my diet, chocolate fudge was something I instantly missed. For our family to enjoy, to bring to holiday cookie swaps, and to wrap up and give as gifts. I have fond and vivid memories of my mom and grandma making decadent fudge every December. ![]()
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