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Chocolate & Honey Fudge

Chocolate and Honey FudgeAh, fudge. Sweet creamy goodness. I love eating it, and I love making it – it’s always a wonderful thrill of success when you cut into it and it turned out the way it should. Hurrah! For the longest time, I routinely ruined my fudge and it never set (but was still perfectly wonderful to eat – you just needed a spoon). Turned out my problem was impatience: you cannot bring the mixture into boil quickly, nor can you boil at it full heat. Slow and easy, at medium heat, does it!

 

Anyway! I chose this particular recipe because it contains honey – which is the special ingredient of this month’s We Should Cocoa challenge by Choclette and Chele, hosted this time by Choclette at the Chocolate Log Blog. Honey does add a special something to the taste of this chocolate fudge, and you can taste it even through all that sugar! Because the recipe is so sugar-heavy (it’s fudge, after all), I would definitely recommend a very dark, high cocoa chocolate for this. I found the recipe online, but it reportedly comes from The Complete Home Confectioner by Hilary Walden.

 

Chocolate & Honey Fudge

 

450 g sugar
150 ml milk
100 g chocolate, chopped (high quality & high cocoa – I used 85% Lindt)
150 g unsalted butter, chopped
50 g clear honey
3 -5 drops vanilla extract


Butter or oil a 7″ or 8″ square pan. This size is not critical to the recipe, but will determine how thick and deep your fudge will be.

Place milk and sugar in a heavy, large saucepan (it must be able to contain 4 times the volume of the original ingredients to avoid boiling over).  Stir over medium heat with a wooden spoon until the sugar has dissolved.

Add chopped chocolate, chopped butter and honey. Stir the mixture until fully melted and blended together.

Bring slowly to a boil. Cover and boil for 3 minutes (this helps wash down the sugar crystals from the sides of the saucepan).

Uncover and insert a prewarmed sugar thermometer. Boil until soft ball stage (116C/240F).

Once the mixture has reached the soft ball stage, remove the saucepan from heat and plunge the base of the pan into an ice water bath. Wait for the temperature to reach 50C/122°F.

Add vanilla essence (and any additions you like – nuts, dried fruit…) and beat the mixture with a wooden spoon until it becomes thick, creamy and lighter in colour.

Pour mixture into prepared pan and leave until almost set. Mark out squares with an oiled knife and leave to set.

Keeps, theoretically speaking, 3-4 weeks.


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  • Choclette says:

    Oh my goodness that looks good. I bet the honey gave it a real depth of flavour especially with dark chocolate. I haven’t made fudge in years, but it used to be a firm favourite. It’s so nice to get varied recipes and although I haven’t finished doing the round-up yet, I suspect yours might be the only fudge recipe. Thanks for entering it into We Should Cocoa.

    28/04/2013 at 23:22
  • Johanna GGG says:

    oh that just looks amazing – thermometers make it look a bit fiddly but it looks so good and creamy

    30/04/2013 at 17:01

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