Just Like Caramel Fudge | Recipe
A butterscotch fudge recipe that tasted just like caramel, but better!
Funny enough, this recipe was inspired by Amazon Prime Now. This is the within 2-hour delivery service that Amazon.com has. While searching for different flavor of chips to buy for my recipe, I ended up with butterscotch chips. Thinking that I was going to use them in cookies, but cookies were not made. Instead the butterscotch fudge came about.
Originally, I was planning on making the espresso fudge and then drizzle over with some caramel sauce. However, that was too simple for RecipeRemix. This is when I reach into my baking cabinet and decided why not use the butterscotch chips to make a butterscotch fudge. It turns out super delicious, but is a little too sweet for my taste.
If you are a caramel sauce lover, this butterscotch fudge is a must try. It is just as rich and sweet as caramel, but more buttery and better. Every bite melt in your mouth. This fudge recipe is super sweet, so if you do not like super sweet fudge, add a bottom layer of espresso fudge.
Good luck and leave me a comment below on which one of the four is your favorite flavor. Don’t forget to send me photos of yours.
There are a total of four different flavors. Don’t forget to check them out. :)
Ingredients
- 1 bag of 12 oz butterscotch chips (~2 cups)
- 1 14oz can of condensed milk
- 3 tbsp of butter
- 1 pinch of salt
- 1 tsp of vanilla
Tools you will need are…
- Baking/cake Pan. You can also use a mold to make cute shaped fudge.
- Double boiler
If you don’t have a double boiler, create one using a pot and a stainless steel bowl. Choose a pot that is bigger than the bowl. Fill the water up to half the pot, or until it only touches the bottom of the bowl. Make sure to test out the water level beforehand to avoid water from over boiling and spilling out on you as you melt the chocolate.
Set your stove to medium-high heat and bring the water to a vicious boil. Once it boil, reduce the heat to low (about 3 on a scale of 1–6 of a gas stove). This will prevent the water from spilling out on the side and overcooking your chocolate.
Hint: Overheating chocolate will result in thick and lumpy fudge texture, which we DO NOT WANT! Lower the heat as you prepare to melt your chips will give you more control and produce a silky, smooth, and creamy fudge result.
Let start cooking!
1. Into the clean mixing bowl on top of the boiling pot, add in the butter, salt, and vanilla.
2. Once the butter completely melted, add the condensed milk and the chips. Wait until the chips are a little soften and then stir the batch constantly until all chips are melted.
3. Remove the mixing bowl with the melted butterscotch in it from the pot. Set it aside. Use a spatula, fold in the batter until it is super smooth and shiny.
4. Once your batter reaches a thick consistency and has a nice shine, pour onto the grease mold that you have prepared previously. Set it aside at room temperature and let it set overnight.
5. After it is set overnight, use a pizza cutter to cut them up into tiny cubes. Pizza cutter will help make even pieces with straight edge. Separate them out with a sharp knife.
Gift Ideas
For gift ideas, place a parchment paper down inside a box that has a window. To make it super festive, use decorative parchment paper. Place your fudge squares into the box. Lay them out any way you like, be creative. Use twine rope, tie a cute bow. Cut out a cute label of any shape and add your initial or signature to make it super special and cute.
I used a window cupcake box size 6.25" X 6.25" X 3". You can brought it on Amazon.com for super cheap.
For other flavors, check out my other recipes.
Tips and Tricks
- If you have a mold for fudge great. Unfortunately, I do not. You can make on like the picture above. Just line your baking sheet with aluminum foil, grease it, and you are set to go. You can make divider like I did by folding your aluminum foil sheet until strip. Try to choose a baking pan that is deep so you can make a thicker fudge.
- For a fancier fudge, feel free to use any fancy chocolate bar for the espresso fudge flavor. Make sure to chop up your chocolate bar into tiny chunks. This will prevent overheating chocolate and reduces the time to melt the chocolate.
- Salt helps balance out the sweet flavor. Try to use sea salt if can. I think it give a deeper flavor than normal salt.
- Make sure that your butter is fully melted prior to adding the chips in. Adding chips beforehand will result in a clumpy fudge.
- To make cute fudge shape, you can always use non stick shapes mold. Just make sure to grease it well with butter.
- When reusing your bowl, make sure to clean it real well between each batches. Wipe it dry, make sure it is dry completely. We do not want your batter to have water in it or it won’t set.
- Do not skip the folding part after the chocolate melted. It will not set and your fudge will be running if you do so.
