#HOMEMADE VANILLA FUDGE RECIPE HOW TO#

Transfer the mixture to a pan, let cool, then cut into squares. Note that this ice cream should not get rock hard unless your freezer is very cold, and thus shouldn't need to sit at room temperature long, if at all, to scoop. Boil the milk, sugar, and cocoa powder together, then allow the mixture to simmer. Replace cover and freeze for an additional 3+ hours or until fully frozen. Make sure to take the knife or chopstick all the way to the bottom of the container. You don't want to stir it in or you won't really have swirls. Using a knife or chopstick, swirl the hot fudge into the ice cream in figure 8 motions. Once partially frozen, remove from freezer and pour thick long ribbons of fudge over the ice cream, about ½ inch apart. The goal is to have partially frozen ice cream so that you can swirl in the fudge without making chocolate ice cream, yet not have the ice cream be so hard that it is impossible to swirl in. For this flavor I like to use a wide container versus a deep container to make swirling in the hot fudge easier later on.įreeze for at least 2-3 hours. Pour mixture into a 2-quart freezer-safe container and cover. Once you have whipped cream, pour the sweetened condensed milk over the top and gently fold it into whipped cream. Using a cold bowl/whisk/cream will help your cream whip faster. Place cream and vanilla into large bowl or bowl of stand mixer and whisk or mix until stiff peaks form. It's so good I may or may not have eaten several spoonfuls of it while waiting for the ice cream to freeze up. I've already posted the hot fudge sauce recipe - just follow the link to get it. While you could totally use pre-made hot fudge sauce in this homemade vanilla fudge swirl ice cream recipe, I wanted to make mine from scratch to be special for a birthday.

#HOMEMADE VANILLA FUDGE RECIPE HOW TO#

Since I already knew I wanted to use the delicious vanilla ice cream from last time as the base, I just needed to come up with a delish hot fudge sauce and decide how to incorporate it. The perfect match in the cake and ice cream realm, right? So, I pondered an ice cream that would go well with marble cake and immediately thought of a vanilla fudge swirl ice cream. Savvy's birthday and he requested a marble cake with ice cream. While he has a boring ice cream personality and is quite content to eat plain vanilla ice cream all the time, I like various ice cream flavors now and then.īack in December, it was Mr. Savvy's favorite ice cream ever, store-bought or homemade. If you didn't read the original post, it was quickly declared Mr. Time (you can’t rush making fudge and you need to be hands on).Last year I came across a super delicious 3-ingredient ice cream recipe that required no ice cream maker.An eight inch baking tin lined with baking parchment.Cook, without stirring, until a candy thermometer reads 234F (soft-ball stage). Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring constantly. In a heavy Dutch oven, combine sugar, milk, salt and the remaining butter. Sugar thermometer or another small bowl of cold water. Line two 13×9-inch pans with foil, greasing the foil with 4 teaspoons of butter.Large, heavy bottomed saucepan (4 liters at least).Make sure you have all of your utensils ready at hand before starting to follow this recipe for vanilla fudge. This Vanilla fudge is bad! If not consumed with care it will add inches to the waist line and it will rot teeth…Which is why I limit fudge making to Christmas and special occasions. When giving it as a gift, I wrap it as neatly as possible in parchment paper, secure it with a piece of narrow ribbon or a piece of natural twining and pop it into a small gift bag. Coming up to Christmas I always make one batch for the family and another one or two batches for friends and for people who we would like to give a little something to. This recipe makes approximately one kilogram of vanilla fudge, which is plenty because believe me a little goes a long way. When the children were younger and had birthday parties, I always made a batch then too, which went down well with both the children and the parents alike…Although the exceedingly high sugar content in the fudge probably caused children to bounce off walls once they got home. It’s not something I make often these days as I can’t justify making more than a couple of batches over the festive period and eating too much of it will definitely cause me to go up a knicker size!

I love making vanilla fudge almost as much as I enjoy eating it and this recipe always goes down well at parties and special occasions.

Homemade vanilla fudge recipe