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These delicious homemade fudge recipe, only needs 5 ingredients! The creamy white chocolate blends with alluring swirls of bitter sweet fudge and tangy raspberry puree. Perfect for Valentine’s Day or just as a nice treat!
Every day and every breath is a gift, so why not celebrate and eat fudge?! And with this fudge recipe, making it has never been so easy. There are only 5 ingredients in this raspberry marble fudge… well, not including water. That doesn’t count, right? And it only takes about 10 minutes to make. The combo of white chocolate and semi-sweet chocolate fudge with swirls of raspberry puree is delicious. It’s a perfect recipe to whip up for Valentine’s Day to bring to work for co-workers or a quick dessert for your hunny!
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How To Make This Homemade Fudge Recipe – Step By Step
Add 1/2 cup fresh raspberries in a blender and blend until pureed. Set aside.
Melt the white chocolate, with 7 ounces sweetened condensed milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 tablespoon water in a microwave for about 35-40 seconds on high. Stir and if it needs more melting, microwave it again for a few more seconds. Do the same to the semi-sweet chocolate.
Cover the bottom of an 8×8 pan with parchment paper. Spray the bottom and sides with cooking oil.
Add a layer of melted semi-sweet chocolate, then a small layer of raspberries, then a layer of white. Repeat.
Set in the refrigerator for 30 mins until the chocolate becomes thick. Cut into squares and enjoy!
A Homemade Fudge Recipe That’s Perfect For Valentine’s Day
These homemade fudge recipe is bound to wow your loved one! What doesn’t say love like whipping up a delicious chocolate treat! Rather than go down the gas station box of chocolates or obvious chocolate dipped strawberries, go for this! With it’s vibrant red swirls and creamy, rich chocolate fudge, these are perfect for Valentine’s Day!
A Really Easy Homemade Fudge Recipe
This homemade fudge recipe is a cinch to whip up! Only 5 ingredients, 10 minutes prep, melt the chocolate in the microwave, then freeze. After 20 mins you’ll have a sheet of layered fudge, that serves up to 24! You get a sweet treat that looks store bought and tastes delicious!
Beaujolais, Cabernet Sauvigon, Bordeaux, Merlot, and Zinfandel are very good winesto pair with a fudge. The sweeter thefudge, the sweeter your winechoice should be. Always pair a milk chocolatefudgewith a sweeterwineor thewinemay taste too tart.
Pinot Noir isa shockingly good pairing for white chocolate, especially for chocolate and wine pairing disbelievers. The white chocolate acts as the fat that delivers sweet flavors of red cherries, strawberries, and raspberries found in the Pinot Noir.
Top Tips For This Homemade Fudge Recipe
Stick to using a microwave for melting the chocolate, if possible. The advantage of using a microwave is that the mixture will not stick to the bottom of the pan during cooking.
Ideally, use a candy thermometer to check if the fudge is done.
Spray your baking tray with cooking oil, before pouring in your fudge mixture.
If you want to slice the fudge neatly, use a long knife.
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Raspberry Marble Fudge Recipe
The perfect fudge recipe for Valentine’s Day!
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Course: Snack
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutesminutes
Chilling time: 30 minutesminutes
Total Time: 10 minutesminutes
Servings: 24
Calories: 213kcal
Author: Eden
Ingredients
12ounceswhite chocolate, either chips or chopped
12ouncessemi-sweet chocolate, either chips or chopped
14ouncecan of sweetened condensed milk
2teaspoonsvanilla
1/4cuppureed raspberries
2tablespoonswater
Instructions
Add 1/2 cup fresh raspberries in a blender and blend until pureed. Set aside.
Melt the white chocolate, with 7 ounces sweetened condensed milk, 1 teaspoon vanilla and 1 tablespoon water in a microwave for about 35-40 seconds on high. Stir and if it needs more melting, microwave it again for a few more seconds. Do the same to the semi-sweet chocolate.
Cover the bottom of an 8×8 pan with parchment paper. Spray the bottom and sides with cooking oil.
Add a layer of melted semi-sweet chocolate, then a small layer of raspberries, then a layer of white. Repeat.
Set in the refrigerator for 30 mins until the chocolate becomes thick. Cut into squares and enjoy!
The key to creamy, luscious fudge is controlling crystal formation. If the sucrose (table sugar) crystals are small, the fudge will feel creamy and smooth on your tongue. But if the crystals are large, the fudge develops a crumbly, dry, or even coarse texture.
After letting the fudge cool, it's time to beat it. It is important to stir constantly with a wooden spoon until the mixture starts to thicken and its surface starts to look dull or matte. Now is the time to stop beating and pour the fudge into a mould.
Once a seed crystal forms, it grows bigger and bigger as the fudge cools. A lot of big crystals in fudge makes it grainy. By letting the fudge cool without stirring, you avoid creating seed crystals.
The main reason is that your Fudge has not reached the optimum temperature. If your mixture only reaches 110 or 112 degrees Celsius it will always be soft. That's why we recommend investing in a sugar thermometer. Another reason your Fudge is not setting is that the ratio of liquid to sugar is too high.
Start cooking over low heat and stir until the sugar is completely dissolved. Don't stir for the rest of the cooking. The syrup temperature rises slowly at first, but a lot faster after 104 °C (220 °F). Don't get distracted!
If there is too much evaporation, when the cooking time is too long, there will not be enough water left in the fudge and it will be too hard. Conversely, if the cooking time is too brief and there is not enough evaporation, too much water will remain and the fudge will be too soft.
If you continue stirring once the mixture is simmering, you are encouraging the development of sugar crystals. While crystallization is the goal if you're making hard candy, crunchy sugar bits can quickly ruin a fudge's silky smooth texture.
The fudge is then beaten as this makes the fudge slightly crumbly rather than chewy. Beating the mixture encourages the formation of small sugar crystals, which leads to the crumbly texture. The crystals may not be noticeable in themselves but the fudge mixture will thicken and turn from shiny to matte in appearance.
Scrape the fudge back into a large saucepan and add 1 1/2 cups of water.
Stir the fudge over low heat until it dissolves. ...
Increase the heat to medium and bring it to a boil, washing down the sides of the pan frequently with a wet pastry brush to prevent sugar crystals from forming.
If your fudge turned out super sticky, or it didn't set as it cooled, it probably never got hot enough. This mistake is super easy to avoid if you use a candy thermometer and cook the fudge to the temperature specified in the recipe (usually between 234 and 239°F).
These were the tips I gave on that post… Options for what you can do with your unset fudge: OPTION 1) Depending on how runny it is, you can either use it as a frosting for cakes, or a sauce for ice-cream.
It might be that you haven't dissolved all the sugar before boiling the fudge mixture. It could be that there just wasn't enough fluid or fat to enable the sugar to dissolve or it might even be that the fudge wasn't beaten long enough or hard enough.
We Recommend. Using a mini muffin tin or silicone candy mold can also help your fudge firm up faster. Thanks to their smaller surface area, they'll help fudge harden much more quickly than if you pour it all into one larger container.
Cream of tartar is used in caramel sauces and fudge to help prevent the sugar from crystallizing while cooking. It also prevents cooling sugars from forming brittle crystals, this is why it's the secret ingredient in snickerdoodles!
The amount of time you cook fudge directly affects its firmness. Too little time and the water won't evaporate, causing the fudge to be soft. Conversely, cook it too long and fudge won't contain enough water, making it hard with a dry, crumbly texture.
If your fudge doesn't firm up after a few hours, you either have too high an amount of liquid to sugar, or your mixture hasn't reached the soft-ball stage. Using a candy thermometer can help home cooks avoid this problem.
You know it's ready when a small amount of the mixture dropped into a glass of cold water sets into a soft ball that you can lift out with a teaspoon and pinch between your fingers. Turn off the heat and keep stirring for 5 minutes or until the mix starts to thicken a little.
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