Just like biscuits, I have never been good at making fudge.

I always wanted to, and I was secretly jealous at holiday times when someone gives me a little tin of homemade fudge! I could NEVER get it to work! It was soooo sad. I can cook or bake most other things, but fudge just always failed me.

So when I saw this recipe for No Fail Fudge and they said it REALLY was no fail fudge… I thought, okay, I’ll give it ONE MORE TRY.

It was from some random website and I’m so sorry that I can’t find it again… it said the recipe came from some old magazine in Louisiana, so I am guessing it’s one of those old passed down recipes. I cut and paste it into my “give a try” recipe collection.

And we finally did.

This one uses chocolate bars and marshmellow fluff! Now, I’ve tried fudge with the fluff before, but never the chocolate bars, so this sounded pretty cool. So we got started… and we had a good time with it. It was DELIGHTFUL! Was not hard. And we mixed in all sorts of goodies too!

REAL No Fail Fudge

4 1/2 cups sugar
1 can (14 1/2 OZ) evaporated milk
1/2 butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 – 12 ounce Hershey’s sweet chocolate bar, chopped
12 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
1 jar (7 ounces) marshmallow cream
1 teaspoon of vanilla
2 cups of mix ins… (walnut pieces, peanut butter chips, mint chips, white chocolate chips, pecans, anything!)

Combine sugar, milk, butter and salt in a saucepan, and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Boil it 5 minutes more until the temp on your candy thermometer gets to 225 degrees.

Add the chocolate bars and the chips and the fluff and vanilia. Removed from the heat and stir until blended and all the chocolate is melted and stirred up nice.

If you’re using just one kind of mix-in, like nuts, you can stir them all in and blend nicely. If you’re spliting up the mix-ins, to make several types, then wait until you pour it into a buttered pan. If you want it thin, use a big pan. If you want it thicker, use a smaller dish. We did three actually… one for nuts, one for peanut butter, one for creme de’mint chopped up pieces!

Once you pour it into the dish, you can sprinkle in the mixins and then use a butter knife to swirl and mix in. Makes 4 pounds!!!