I've been travelling a lot for rotations the last two months, away from my kitchen, so I've been behind in posting new recipes, however I've still been somehow baking 2-3 times. I'm enjoying making simple old classic recipes recently, and have been asking around for inspiration of forgotten desserts. This current recipe came up due to complaints in the difficulty of making reliable fudge, along with annoyance at using candy thermometers.
So I set out for a simple reliable fudge recipe that isn't picky enough to require a candy thermometer (thus ruling out most the really classic recipes). I've stumbled upon this fudge base recipe, and look forward to building on it with all sorts of flavor combinations (next is dark chocolate and raspberry!). I believe the fluff gives it more stability, leaving you with less risk of a grainy fudge, or one that doesn't set up. I'm not the biggest fan of white chocolate, so I altered the original recipe to use half dark chocolate and half white chocolate, and really liked the resulting flavor, it tastes a bit like milk chocolate.
The texture of this is part way to being mousse-like, melting in your mouth with chocolaty goodness, and the cookies add a great crunch. After trying this I realized I hadn't eaten fudge since I was a kid, so while I can't attest to how classic this tastes, I can say it was hard to stop snacking on. Remember when buying white chocolate for baking to make sure it has cocoa butter as one of the first few ingredients!
