Homemade Creamy Fudge Candy
A really tasty homemade fudge made from natural ingredients! This creamy fudge candy is a wonderful treat that tastes like homemade dulce de leche (boiled condensed milk), with a hint of sherbet, too. Feel free to dress it up with chopped or whole nuts. You can also add candied fruit or dried fruit, like dried cranberries or cherries. A little good-quality cocoa makes for an interesting twist, and a bit of vanilla sugar won't hurt either.
Cooking method
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Step 1:
To make homemade creamy fudge candy, gather these ingredients: granulated sugar, fresh milk, condensed milk, butter, honey, and a little fine salt. The milk, butter, condensed milk, and honey should all be high-quality, genuinely natural products.
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Step 2:
In a heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the granulated sugar and milk. Heat, stirring occasionally, until the sugar crystals fully dissolve.
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Step 3:
Add the condensed milk, honey, salt, and butter to the pan. Continue heating, stirring as you go.
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Step 4:
Stirring often, cook the sweet mixture over medium heat until it begins to thicken and visibly darken.
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Step 5:
The fudge should turn dark — the color of dulce de leche — and thick and viscous. To test for doneness: drop a little into a glass of ice water; if the cooled bead is soft and doesn't stick, the fudge is ready!
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Step 6:
Transfer the fudge to a parchment-lined pan and let it set. Cut the set fudge into pieces (the size depends on how firm it is). You can wrap each piece in small squares of food-safe film to make real candies — I used an oven roasting bag for this.
- A note on texture: the finished fudge can come out quite different depending on the sugar (as best I can tell), possibly the honey, and the setting temperature. I can't give an exact formula. But the flavor is always the same — delicious — while the texture can range from crumbly to soft and viscous; if it never fully firms up, you can serve it as a sweet spread.
Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish
- Whole cow's milk - 68 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.5% fat content - 64 kcal/100g
- Milk 3.2% fat content - 60 kcal/100g
- Milk 1.5% fat content - 47 kcal/100g
- Concentrated milk 7.5% fat content - 140 kcal/100g
- Milk 2.5% fat content - 54 kcal/100g
- Honey - 400 kcal/100g
- Granulated sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Sugar - 398 kcal/100g
- Condensed milk with sugar - 324 kcal/100g
- Butter 82% - 734 kcal/100g
- Amateur unsalted butter - 709 kcal/100g
- Unsalted peasant butter - 661 kcal/100g
- Peasant salted butter - 652 kcal/100g
- Melted butter - 869 kcal/100g
- Salt - 0 kcal/100g
