Variation on recipes posted.
Oh my gosh! So very good! And fast! No candy thermometers, no boiling and scorching perfectly innocent chocolate.
Ingredients:
3 cups chocolate morsels. I used 2 cups Nestle Minis and 1 cup white chocolate morsels, because thats what I had in the cabinet, and that's how I roll.
1 14-oz can of sweet condensed milk
4 tablespoons of butter; I used unsalted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/4 teaspoon salt
You will need to line a square 8x8 pan with aluminum foil and spray with non-stick spray. Set aside.
In a medium size microwaveable bowl, combine the chocolate morsels, butter, and the sweet condensed milk. Place in microwave and heat for 1 minute.
Carefully remove from microwave and begin stirring the mixture. Keep stirring until the mixture becomes fairly smooth. If you need to heat a little more, do it like 15 seconds at a time, stirring each time you take it out. I only had to heat one extra time of 15 seconds, and that was because I stopped to do something, and I could see the butter wasn't softening and my chocolate was cooling. Life is not perfect, but fudge should be.
Once the fudge begins to look smooth and completely combined, add the vanilla and salt. Stir this in so that it is evenly distributed. To be honest, I am not a good stirrer, and so I added the vanilla and salt before everything was completely mixed and smooth. I don't like to make food stiff or dry by stirring too much.
Once you have it all mixed to your satisfaction (i.e. the butter is completely mixed in), carefully pour the fudge into the foil lined pan. It will come out of the bowl fairly quick and easy.
Refrigerate the pan for at least 2 hours. When ready to plate, this is the best part: lift the foil out of the pan, and place fudge face down on cutting board surface. Using a sharp knife, slice into strips and then into cubes. I chopped into smaller than usual blocks, so my friends and family would not feel so guilty about eating more than one. And this was appreciated.
Plate up and serve. Clean up is fast and easy too!
