Chocolate fudge is often seen as an expensive delicacy, rarely consumed and even more rarely made at home.

This rich confection can be made at home far easier than most people realize, making it one of my favorite kinds of foods to make: something people associate with high cost that is not that way, at all.

Without further ado: my extra-simple ultra-easy

Four Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Recipe

Ingredient 1: One 11oz Can of Sweetened Condensed Milk

(I live in Taiwan)

Ingredient 2: Half Stick of Butter

Mix Together Over Low Heat, Stirring Often

As low heat as you can get.  If there’s any sizzle, it’s too hot.

Ingredient 3: 4 Cups of Marshmallows

Ingredient 4: 4 Cups of Chocolate Chips

To make a different kind of fudge – white chocolate fudge, butterscotch fudge, vanilla fudge, peanut butter fudge – just use a different type of chocolate chip!

Also, do not mix in the marshmallows and chocolate chips at the same time, like you see in these pictures – first melt in the marshmallows, then the chocolate chips – if you do it like these pictures, your arms will be killing you by the end of all the stirring, and and you run the risk of the chocolate overdrying (if that does happen, just add a splash of milk and hope for the best).

Continue to Mix Over Low Heat

Do Not Stop Stirring

Do Not Stop Stirring

Once Fully Mixed, Pour Into Containers

This is why it’s a good idea to use a rubber scraper instead of something like a wooden spoon; there’s at least a half-pound of fudge left in that pot.

Cool the fudge for at least two hours in the fridge, then remove it from the containers, making it easy to cut and package.

I love Glad Press’n’Seal.

This recipe will make three pounds of chocolate fudge, for less than ten dollars and less than a half-hour of work.

Ingredients

1 11oz can of sweetened condensed milk

.5 stick butter

4 cups marshmallow

4 cups chocolate chips

 

Nutritional Information

per 3 Pound Recipe

Calories 5375

Total Fat 279g
Saturated Fat 174g
Cholesterol 255mg
Sodium 901mg
Carbohydrates 874g
Fiber 40g
Protein 68g

per Quarter Pound

Calories 447

Total Fat 23g
Saturated Fat 14g
Cholesterol 21mg
Sodium 75mg
Carbohydrates 72g
Fiber 3g
Protein 6g

 

You can always add other things to your chocolate fudge.  Chop up marshamllows (or use minis) and add them, with nuts, once the fudge is melted; stir them just enough to mix them, then immediately pour it into pans, and you have “rocky road.”  Or perhaps crush and add my two ingredient English toffee.

Really, it all has to do with personal taste.  No matter what, this chocolate fudge recipe can serve as the foundation for whatever fudge you want to create.