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Very sweet and extremely rich, fudge is especially popular among kids. Follow this easy recipe, adding cocoa, vanilla or nuts for extra flavour, and make delicious treats for guests or gifts for special occasions.

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Fudge

  • Author: Caroline Hastings-Brown
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Description

Every child’s fave! Delicious, creamy, sweet fudge.

Ingredients

  • 1 tin condensed milk
  • 2 cups sugar
  • 250g baking margarine

 

Instructions

  1. Melt the margarine, add sugar and stir until the sugar has dissolved.
  2. Add condensed milk and stir continuously until it starts boiling.
  3. Lower the heat and stir for another 20 minutes.
  4. Pour into a baking tray and allow to set.

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Comments

    • Amanda Cross

      The cook time on this recipe is not long enough it has to be at least about a 30 min cook time if you do not want the fudge to come out soft

  2. Bronwyn

    Help, okay so my fudge looks okay and tastes okay, but is still very soft and when you eat it, you can can feel the sugar granules. How are you supposed to get it hard and should i use castor sugar next time as i followed the recipe to the tea?

  5. rene

    I MADE THE FUDGE AND IT’S NOT GETTING HARD I DON’T KNOW WHAT I DID WRONG. IT’S GOT THE TASTE OF FUDGE,BUT IT LOOKS LIKE TOFFEE. CAN I MELT IT AGAIN AND ADD SUGAR AND CONDENSED MILK?

  6. Kim

    I’m not a baker and I always thought fudge is difficult to make, I was so wrong! I made two batches and my kids loved them!!

  8. Brett

    You need to keep stirring until the sugar is dissolved. If it’s toffee like then you didn’t cook it long enough. To test it put some of the fudge in a cup of water to cool it down try it. But generally you can tell by the colour of the fudge. It will be quite a bit darker, caramel like when it’s ready.

    But even easier is to get a large microwave glass bowl. Melt the butter. Add the condensed milk and sugar. Put the microware on full for 5 mins. Take out stir. Put back in for 5 mins on full. Take out stir. Put back in the microwave for 3 mins on full. Should be ready. Might have to make it shorter of longer depending on your microwave’s power. Mine’s 900W. You need a large bowl as the fudge will boil and if it’s not large enough you will need to watch that it doesn’t boil over. If it starts to, open the door for a few seconds to let it go down then continue.

    Believe me this is a lot easier than stirring for 30mins +

  9. Megan

    When making fudge you need to be extremely careful. never maske fudge over extreme heat rather keep it at medium temp then lower… and also if you leave it 1 minute too long on the heat you may land up with toffee.. as for the sugar granules that is because the stove was too high and started boiling before it even dissolved. Its very easy to make fudge but also you need to be careful and ptient

  10. Megan

    They also say drop a little bit of the fudge in a cup of cold water and if it goes into a ball and firm then it is done

  15. Maurice

    Mine has turned out perfectly but with two small additions.
    3 teaspoons vanilla essence
    Once finished on gge stove i use an electric beater and beat the creamy caramel liquid .
    Thisseems to give a smoother more creamy texture and works everytime

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