Fudge Time!

Posted on by October 7, 2010

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!!!


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Fun Veggie Plant ID Thingys

Posted on by October 5, 2010



I found these pictures and I totally forgot to write about them! So sorry!

The girls and I had fun in the summertime making some little plant ID tags for the garden! We got a little pack of Sculpty clay and started to make up some little plant signs for the garden. It was great fun, I always like playing with clay or Play dough, that kind of thing. It’s so fun and tactile, and we laughed a bunch while we were crafting.




We used our pasta machine because it is very good at making thin, uniform pieces of clay in which to build our little signs on.




These were a blast and so cute! We got a handful of old forks at the flea market. I think we paid 25 cents for each. Then we made little mini-versions of what we were planting! Radish and carrots, brocolli, and other goodies! And then you just stab them on the end of the fork and heat till hard. We used a little spray varnish to give them a little protection from the elements! They were SO cute… I just love the little carrot one!




It’s so much fun to just take a little time from your busy schedule and make stuff with your kids. Heck, make stuff with your friends, old and new! You don’t have to be some young whipper snapper to have fun rolling and pinching and making stuff. And the clay is really not expensive. We got a little assortment pack of primary colors and one with stone gray and other almost pastel colors to make little sign backgrounds for the primary color items.

The sign ones we used a Sharpy marker to draw in the indentations with after we baked them for the recommended times. And we used a little craft wire to hang them on the fences or on a little stick or twig for a pot. Super cute!

I think we spent less than $20 total, and used just homemade tools like pencils and knives to make marks and cut the clay into the shapes we wanted. It was a nice afternoon and we have some fun and whimsical garden decorations! And we still have over half our clay left to play around with another time!


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