Fudge Recipe

Chocolate fudge recipe is one of the easiest things to make. It is loaded with calories so not a very good idea on a very regular basis but then, there are very few who can resist the gooey magic of a river of chocolate on their plate. This sauce can be used to pour over ordinary vanilla flavored ice cream and is a complete temptation by itself too. Some ideas of what to do with it are given here.

Chocolate Fudge Recipe

You need:

2/3 cup double cream
1 cup plain chocolate broken into bits and softened
4 tbsp softened butter
¼ cup plain sugar

3 tbsp brandy (optional)

Heat together the cream and the butter with the sugar in a double boiler. In case one is not handy, heat a saucepan of water. When it starts boiling, place a smaller heatproof bowl with its bottom in the boiling water, and stir these ingredients inside it. This way the butter, cream and sugar will get adequate heat to melt and mix, but not get burnt. Stir these together in this bowl, till they make a smooth mixture, and then let it cool. When it is lukewarm, put in the chocolate pieces and stir till they are melted in and well combined. In the end, stir in the brandy by teaspoonfuls. Keep at room temperature.

This is the most basic recipe for fudge. More flavors can be invented as per the taste of the Chef …the same procedure can be used to make Coffee Chocolate Fudge. Here brandy will be replaced by coffee liqueur and light brown sugar will be used instead of plain granulated sugar.

Instead of brown chocolate, one can use white chocolate. This white chocolate can be used for making White Chocolate and Orange fudge sauce. In this case, use orange liqueur (or Cointreau) instead of brandy and also add some zest and finely grated rind of an orange.

These delectable sauces can be used to pour over a wide array of things, ranging from ice cream to profiteroles …to plain fruits poached in sugar syrup.

A great idea is poached apples or pears.

Pears in Fudge Sauce

You need:

4 ripe pears.
1/3 cup caster sugar
Juice of one lemon
1 cinnamon stick

The fudge with the above given proportions can be useful here.

Peel the pears after cleaning carefully. The stalks can be left on.

Brush with lemon juice to prevent discoloring.

In the meantime, place the sugar with 1 and ¼ cups of water and bring to a boil, heat gently till the sugar dissolves and then put in the pears and the cinnamon stick. There should be enough water in the pan to cover the pears.

Cover the pan and simmer gently for about 15 minutes, till the pears are soft, but not squishy. Keep the fudge sauce ready as above.

When the pears are done, remove them from the syrup. Then raise the heat to reduce the syrup to about one fourths of its original quantity. Cool it down, remove the cinnamon stick and stir the syrup into the fudge sauce.

Remove one pear at a time and place on a dish or desert bowl. Pour over the required amount of fudge sauce, serve warm.

As a quick dessert, chocolate fudge has universal appeal when poured over scoops of ice cream, topped with roasted, flaked nuts and maybe some fruits like bananas. Try a scoop of vanilla ice cream on a bed of sliced bananas, pour over some chocolate fudge and sprinkle toasted hazelnuts. Alternately, one could use strawberry, toffee or mocha flavor of ice cream and use raspberries for the fruit content.