Ooo, look! I made fudge!
As you may have guessed from the title, I got this recipe from the lovely Jane at Jane’s Patisserie. If you haven’t visited her blog yet, you really should. Everything she makes is to die for!
This is a very quick, no-bake recipe and the results are impressive. Just don’t tell anyone how easy it is to make 😉
If you’re struggling with this recipe, please pop over to Jane’s original blog post where there’s a short video showing her putting everything together.
Ingredients
- 400 g/ 14 oz white chocolate
- One 397 g tin of caramel (I used Carnation’s, like Jane does. But it’s the only one on sale in my local supermarket and I’m sure any caramel would do just as well. And you can always make your own caramel from condensed milk)
- 125 g / 4.5 oz sifted icing sugar (yes, you really need to bother sifting it for this recipe. Trust me)
- 350 g / 12 oz Rolos (this is 7 packets or 70 Rolos).
A quick note on Rolos: these little parcels of milk chocolate with a caramel centre are made by Nestlé so I’m guessing they’re widely available all over the world (although apparently in the US they’re made by Hershey). Just in case this is the first time you’re hearing of Rolos, here’s a picture of the packaging so you can recognise them when you’re tracking them down.
A quick health warning: obviously fudge isn’t a healthy food. However, as it’s just so darn easy to eat, I feel I should flag that the ingredients of this recipe contain a whopping total of 4570 calories. If you cut your fudge block into 64 little pieces (as I did) they’ll each contain about 70 calories. OK, you’re all smart enough to take care of yourselves, so here endeth the sermon! 🙂
Method
1. Line a deep tin with baking paper. My tin measures 7.5 x 8.5 inches and is 1.5 inches deep. However, Jane uses a 9 x 9 inch tin and says an 8 x 8 inch would also work. All this gives you a good idea of what sort of size tin you need.
2. Break the white chocolate into small pieces and melt it. You can do this is a heatproof bowl over a pan of hot water. Or, like me, you can do it in the microwave. I give the chocolate pieces 30 seconds in the microwave, then give the bowl a shake. Another 30 seconds, another shake. Another 30 seconds, take the bowl out and give the chocolate a good stir. It will be pretty much melted by now but you need to encourage it. Another 20 seconds in the microwave and it’ll be completely melted. Keep stirring until all the lumps are gone, you want it smooth.
3. Add the caramel into the white chocolate and beat until combined. This will take some elbow grease.
4. Add the icing sugar. Remember to start stirring gently to avoid an icing sugar cloud. Keeping stirring until it’s all combined. I found a spatula was the best thing to stir with because it made it easier to check if there was any icing sugar hiding at the bottom of the bowl.
5. Add three quarters of your Rolos into the mixture (this is roughly 5.5 packets’ worth) and stir through. Pour your mixture into your tin and flatten into the corners. Level off (see picture below left). Pop the remaining Rolos into the fudge anywhere you can see a Rolo gap (picture below right).
6. Pop your fudge into the fridge to set for 3-4 hours or leave overnight.
7. When it’s set, turn it out of your tin onto a chopping board and cut into as many pieces as you like.
My random presentation variation
I did something slightly different between steps 4 and 5. Before I added any Rolos, I put a teaspoonful of the fudge mixture into 12 mini sweet cases. You may remember these Wilton foil cases from the chocolate orange cups I made back at the end of last year. If you haven’t seen these mini cases before, here’s a picture of them next to a cupcake case and a muffin case, to give you an idea of their size.
I used 2 cases inside each other to make a double thickness mould. Once each case had a teaspoonful of fudge in it, I pushed a Rolo into the centre of each case and put these in the fridge to set. Then I proceeded to stage 5 with the rest of the mixture. This way, as well as blocks of fudge, I also ended up with individual shaped fudges like this:
Do these remind anyone else of Toffifee? (I’m not sure if that’s a thing worldwide, but I think my European readers will probably know what I’m talking about!).
Easy to make, delicious caramel fudge. Thank you to Jane for the recipe 🙂
Not enough chocolate for you? Try these other recipes featuring chocolate:
Mint chocolate muffins (featuring Mint Aero).
After Eight mint chocolate brownies.
Claire Huston / Art and Soul
Now these I may be able to make!! No baking involved!!
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None whatsoever! Melting the chocolate is the hardest bit. The rest is just mixing 🙂
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And eating 😉
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That looks so delicious!! I had no idea fudge had so many calories 😦
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It’s very very nice.
I always thought it was probably very calorific, but it’s never until you make these things you realise just how many calories they have in them.
Sometimes it’s better not to know!
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It’s definitely better not to know sometimes.
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I HAVE to have these x
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They’re so easy to make as well! And it’s a great thing to give as a gift because people are so impressed you made it. I gave some to my son’s pre-school teacher today on the last day of term and I’m convinced she thought I’d bought it! 🙂
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Never mind a gift – I’d be keeping these for myself!
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I have rolos here! It looks amazing, but your calorie count is making me think I shouldn’t…..or I should and give most of it to family.
Thank you, Amanda.
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Exactly! 🙂 I gave half of it away to my son’s pre-school teachers as a thank you at the end of term.
I’m glad I did the maths because I’m sure I would have scoffed more in one go otherwise. And it keeps for a couple of weeks in the fridge, so you can space the calories out!
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Ah, well if it keeps for a few weeks, I could ration it out. Ok, I will make it. 😉
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Actually I made home made tablet and choc caramels for my co workers at the end of term too. I think the personal touch of deliciousness is appreciated.
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I haven’t made tablet or choc bark yet… but Jane has loads of good recipes for that too, so I’m sure I will at some point 🙂
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Hummm … Quelle douce gourmandise !!
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Exactement! Merci 🙂
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I had no idea fudge was so easy to make? Consider me surprised! 🙂
Ah, this is the sugary heaven of fudge.. nothing good comes without calories (mostly!) 😀
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Neither did I. I always assumed it involved boiling things and needing to have a sugar thermometer and other paraphernalia!
I completely agree that the best tasting things are usually those with the extra calories 🙂 And I say this as someone’s who has just stuffed three bits of fudge in the last 5 minutes!
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XD Brilliant… enjoy! 😀
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These sound divine
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They are rather nice. I’m glad I could give some of it away today or I’d probably be eating far too much of it myself 🙂
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Goodness Claire, you’re trying to fatten us up?! 😀 Love this one! And like I read in the comments, brilliant idea to give it to someone else as a gift :). (especially if you want those people to get fatter than you
[shame on me for saying that :O])
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Haha! I’m not doing it on purpose, I promise 🙂
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I must say I do love you little sermon and my God, that is some amount of calories but … drool!!!I adore rolos and seeing all seven packets lined up like that-wow! Definitely trying this one!
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I just felt that I really had to say something. I wasn’t too worried about it until I realised it was 400 g of chocolate and 7 packets of Rolos! I don’t think anyone eats fudge thinking it’s making them healthier, but just in case 🙂
Hasn’t stopped me scoffing it either!
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yum!!
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It is rather nice, I must say!
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I can imagine!
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This looks *so* good. I’d type more, but I’m drooling all over my keyboard. What a mess. 😉
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Hahahaha! It is rather delicious 🙂
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Another delicious concoction! I just had to pin it!!! Love those Rolos 🙂 🙂
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Me too! Everything Jane makes looks so wonderful and she has loads of Rolo recipes 🙂
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They look yummy
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They were VERY nice. Almost too nice! 🙂
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I am sure!
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YUM! I missed these when you first posted, wow they sounds really good. Love the sermon…so you’re saying we’re ok to have, I don’t know, about 10 in one sitting…!?
Scrummy X
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That’s about right 😉
Along with the ones I put in individual cups, I think I had 76 pieces in the end, which made them about 60 calories each. I think my record was 6 pieces in a sitting… which, if it’s your dessert, isn’t really that bad! 🙂
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