Thursday 13 December 2012

Marshmallow Mint Fudge

Something I always wanted to make, but never dared to... Fudge... Per accident I found a recipe which does not include heating up sugar to over 100°C and praying that the whole thing will have the right texture in the end. It is a foolproof way of making your own fudge, using marshmallows. I could not believe it to be so easy, so I had to try it :)
 

All you need is:

200 g marshmallows (preferably white)
1 1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup evaporated milk
1/4 tsp. salt
250 g white chocolate, chopped
170 g dark chocolate, chopped
85 g milk chocolate, chopped
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1 1/2 ts. peppermint extract
some drops of green foodcolour
some peppermintbiscuits (I used thin mints)
 
Step 1:
Line a baking dish (approximately 20cm x 20cm) carefully with aluminium foil. Make sure the whole form is covered and that the foil has as few wrinkles as possible. The fudge is very sticky and sticks to ANYTHING. Believe me :)
 
Step 2:
Place the white chocolate into a bowl, together with the peppermint extract and the foodcolour. Then, put the other chocolates into another bowl, together with the vanilla extract.
 
Step 3:
Put marshmallows (chopped, if they are not the very small ones), sugar, evaporated milk and salt into a saucepan and heat carefully. Do not boil. Stir every once and a while, until all the marshmallow pieces are melted.

This is what melting the marshmallows looks like...


Step 4:
Pour half of the mass into the bowl with the white chocolate and the other half into the bowl with the dark and milk chocolate. Stir the ingredients of each bowl until all the chocolate is melted.
 
Step 5:
Pour the dark mixture into the prepared baking dish, leaving some tablespoons full for decoration. Then fill in the lightly green mixture. Decorate with swirls of the remaining dark mixture and break some peppermint cookies and scatter them over the fudge.
 
Step 6:
Place into the fridge over night to cool and harden.



Step 7:
Turn the fudge out of the form and try to remove the foil. It might be a bit tricky because of the fudge's stickiness. If you have successfully mastered the art of removing the foil, you can cut your selfmade fudge into sqares :)  Yummie :)


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