how to: make your own fudge

hey everyone,
right some of you may know that i loveeee to bake,
some of you may not, but i do, im a huge cupcake fan and i love to create different designs, and i even started a cooking blog at one time, but gave it up because i ended up doing to many things at once,

but anyway, back to my point:
i love to discover new recipes and i love to tell you guys all about them, i haven't baked for quite a long time actually, so the other day i decided to get back into it and the first thing i cooked was fudge.

Now it is SOOOO easy to do, so just follow these instructions and you'll have perfect fudge every time!

you will need:

• a huge! saucepan
• weighing scales with milk weight, or a measure
• sugar
• butter
• milk
• vanilla essence

so basically you just put 300ml of milk 350g of sugar and 100g of butter and throw it all in the big pan

Then heat it on a medium heat and stir continuously, when it all melts it will start to grow in size, it will get right up to the top of the pan aswell, don't panic!, you just need to stir abit faster.

so it will start bubbling away and hopefully get abit thicker, just keep stirring  and stirring  and stirring  it take probably like 10 mins, eventually it will start to drop back down, just keep stirring (dory's song from nemo comes into my head). 

so hopefully it will now look like the above picture, and you'll have some of the melted butter making lines in the mixture, somehow you need to not stop stirring and add a tiny bit of sugar to the mixture, so that it starts to look abit burned, and turn brown.

this is fine, this is how the fudge gets it nice brown colour, from burnt sugar lol.

so just keep stirring until its shrunk down to its original size and looks abit burnt or brown. Then add 1 to 2 teaspoons of vanilla.

Then you need to leave it on the side, off the heat, for about 3-5 mins. Till it starts to look thick and quite hard to stir.

Then just put it all into a greased or greased proof paper lined tin and leave for an hour too cool, if you can!

I think i left mine for about 30 mins, it was still warm when i eat it and was gorgeous.

just please don't eat it straight away!!

because what you have just done is heat sugar, you heated it too like 200 degrees  so please don't eat it, you will burn yourself and it will hurt!

so there you go that's how you make fudge, you can also add loads of different flavours in there,

if you want to add like chocolate chips or nuts, do it just before you pop it in the tin, after its cooled a little so it doesn't melt them, or if you want to flavour it do it before you want it too cool.

have an experiment and see if it comes out ok. its basically a fool proof recipe, well i hope it is, just remember to keep stirring!

have you ever made fudge before? will you now?

xxxx