Candy Cane Fudge

Submitted by NorthwestGal

"Every year, my best friend and I get together to do our holiday baking together. We found a new recipe last year, which we decided to try. It turned out fantastic. Both of our families really liked this fudge. So I thought I would post the recipe here, for others to enjoy. It's quick to fix (only about 15-20 minutes) and it's very easy as candy-making goes. The cooking time listed below is the minimum chilling time needed for the fudge to "set" well enough to cut into individual serving pieces."

 

• Ready In: 2hrs 25mins
• Ingredients: 5
• Yields: 2 1/4 pounds
• Serves: 64

ingredients

• 2 (10 ounce) packages vanilla baking chips (or white baking morsels)
• 14 ounces sweetened condensed milk
• 3⁄4 - 1 teaspoon peppermint extract (depending on preferences)
• 1 1⁄2 cups finely-crushed candy canes
• red food coloring

directions

1. Line an 8x8-inch square baking pan with aluminum foil. Lightly coat the bottom of the foil with butter.
2. In a medium size saucepan, combine the vanilla chips and the sweetened condensed milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring frequently, until the vanilla chips are melted.
3. Remove the pan from the heat and continue to stir (to remove any lumps that might be left from partially unmelted chips).
4. When chips are completely melted, stir in the peppermint extract and crushed candy canes.
5. Spread the fudge mixture evenly in the bottom of the prepared baking pan.
6. Dot the top of the fudge with several drops of food coloring. (NOTE: I used about 9 drops of food coloring. But feel free to reduce or increase that, depending on the amount of swirling you wish in your fudge). With a butter knife, cut through the fudge and food coloring, making a swirling pattern throughout the fudge.
7. Chill for 2 hours. Remove the fudge from the baking pan by lifting the foil from both ends. Transfer fudge to cutting board, and cut into 1-inch squares.

Reviews

[rosslare]

Nice and sweet, but surprisingly, not overly so. I used white chocolate. Very good presentation!

 

[stormylee]

Yum! What a lovely, sweet and fresh confection! I used white chocolate instead of vanilla chips and a 9" pan. About 250 g of polkagrisar yielded the 1,5 c of crushed peppermint candy needed! Very good - will become a Christmas staple! Thank you NorthwestGal!

 

[cUte Kitty pUnk]

yum. tried it also with cinnamon extract b/c my hubby doesn't like peppermint - but that was no good - definitely better with peppermint so i will stick with the peppermint and anyone who doesn't like it doesn't get any! :D

 

[Ceezie]

This is pretty good fudge. I think it would have been better if I had used a better white chocolate. I used toll house chips. I also didn't have even 3/4 tsp peppermint and ended up using 1/2 which seemed perfect to me - not too much but enough to flavor it. I opted to leave out the food coloring.

 

[Sydney Mike]

Although I'm not a big fan of peppermint candy canes, that's what I used for this recipe, then sent it off with my other half to share at work ~ Big success, there, so I can't complain! AND, I'd so fascinated by the way it all turned out, that I'm now keeping an eye out for non-peppermint canes (I KNOW they're out there) to use in making another batch of this fudge ~ I definitely want to have it around for the winter holidays! [Made & reviewed for one of my co-hosts during the current Pick A Chef]