Fascinating Fudge - rethinking it
While trying to search for some good fudge, I came across a few different ideas for it.
Yes, no one wants to think of fudge in the summer ... it is the stuff of homey Christmas gifts and adding winter fat to keep us warm during the cold months.
However, here's a summertime fudge made with fresh strawberries.
http://www.recipezaar.com/122269
This British recipe says that white chocolate is the secret ingrediant to good fudge
http://www.squidoo.com/BestFudgeRecipe
A bacon fudge recipe
http://www.theanticraft.com/archive/beltane08/ohcanada.htm
Then there is the healthy approach ...
A recent Chow recipe that replaces the sugar with sevia and some of the butter with nut butter ... and no cream.
http://www.chow.com/recipes/12084
Some people use pinto beans to replace some of the butter
http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Surprise-Chocolate-Fudge/Detail.aspx
Others use potatoes
http://www.chow.com/digest/2952
http://www.thatsmyhome.com/fudge-recipes/coconut-potato-fudge.htm
Or sweet potatoes
http://all-recipes.org/candy/fudge/Sweet-Potato-Fudge.html
Vegan fudge anyone?
http://vegetarian.about.com/od/desertrecipes/r/veganfudge.htm
This has to be the ultimate fudge recipe site ...
http://www.uzoj.com/en/recipes/candy/fudge/
Different dairy fudge: Chocolate Goat's Milk, Cream cheese, Buttermilk, Eggnog. Yogurt Milk-Free Cocoa (mocha mix)
Fruit and veggie: carrot, fig, persimmon (with dates), black bean, mashed banana, fresh blueberry, fresh cranberry, crushed pineapple, pumpkin, lemon, lime, orange
There's barfi, cardamom , chocolate graham, popcorn, diabetic, soya, halvah, and soda cracker fudge recipes.
There's boozy versions: Amaretto, Bailey's Irish Cream, Kahlua, Rum,
Candy.cookie-enhanced fudge: Almond Joy, Girl Scout Samoa, Snickers, Whoppers
I might pass on the Crisco Fruit Fudge (that can't be good) or Kool-Aid Fudge (with Marshmallow Fluff).
There are the alternate fudge-making techniques like baked fudge, frying pan fudge, no-cook fudge or microwave fudge.
Duplicate some of your store bought fudge: See's Candy Kitchens Fudge, Russell Stover Fudge
There's fudge with a pedigree:Mamie Eisenhower's Favorite Fudge, Martha Washington Fudge (made with parafin), Smith College Fudge, Vassar Fudge, Wellesley fudge
If that's not enough there's a cheddar cheese and a Velveeta Peanut Butter Fudge. If the thought of a yellow cheese fudge isn't frightening enough there's this note on the cheddar version ... "Drained maraschino cherries, flaked coconut, miniature marshmallows or chopped nuts may be added." Yikes.
And as they say in the infomercials ... and much, much, more.
So, any other different fudge ideas or approaches or hints?
Fudge - the food wallflower
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/541113
rworange
Jul 22, 2008 12:28PM
Isn't that velveeta peanut butter fudge a Paula Deen creation? Looks interesting, but just not sure if I would want to risk it.
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I saw Paula Deen do it on Iron Chef. She made velveeta fudge balls on a stick, dipped in caramel and white chocolate, rolled in nuts. I can't remember what else there was. It was too sticky in the judges' mouths for them to say anything. Here she recreates it on Ellen:
http://30somethingmom.wordpress.com/2...
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I saw that on Ellen, and she talked about the iron chef episode.
BTW - that video is no longer available. Here it is from the Ellen site:
http://ellen.warnerbros.com/2007/12/i...
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The goat's milk one has me intrigued.
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