Chocolate Salted Caramel Cherry Fudge Recipe Featuring Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk

Fudge!! Oh how I love fudge. My family has been using Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk for generations.

Fudge is one of those last minute things that is going to impress if it's got a silky texture and it's really easy to make it fancy and on trend.

Today we made a nice big pan of a subtly two toned fudge to give as gifts- or at least as much as my husband will allow out the door. I suspect he's going to decide a lot of people get cookies instead! The first thing he said when he tasted it is "It's not grainy, it's perfect fudge!"

Ingredients:

1 bag semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 bag milk chocolate chips
1 1/4 cup white chocolate chips
3/4 cup caramel chips - I used Ghiradelli brand for all the chips.
1 stick butter (8 Tbs) + extra for buttering the waxed paper for easy release
2 cans Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
2 jars of maraschino cherries- my own preference is for Tillen Farm's cherries with no artificial colors or flavors
2 tsps. vanilla
Caramel sauce
Nice flake salt- I used an Alaskan sea salt that's made small batch in Sitka.

Supplies:
9x13x2 inch pan and wax paper to line it
1 large sauce pan
Spoon and silicone spatula

Line the 9x13 pan with waxed paper, and butter it lightly

In the sauce pan, combine
1 bag semi-sweet chips
3/4 cup milk chocolate chips
1/4 cup caramel chips
1 can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
1/2 stick (4 Tbs.) butter

Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until it's all melted and combined. Remove from heat, stir in 1 tsp. vanilla. Pour into pan, spread it evenly.

In the same pan-

the rest of the bag of milk chocolate chips
1 1/4 cup white chocolate chips
1/2 cup caramel chips
1 can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk
1/2 stick (4 Tbs.) butter
Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until it's all melted and combined. Remove from heat, stir in 1 tsp. vanilla. Pour into pan, spread it evenly over first layer.

Put the cherries on top evenly spaced. Chill.

Add a drizzle of caramel sauce, cut into cubes, and put on a lightly sprinkle of salt.

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This post was sponsored by Eagle Brand- all opinions are mine.

Easiest Ever Non- Dairy Fudge

So this fudge is pretty much a non-recipe.

You need:
1 can sweetened condensed coconut milk (I used Nature's Charm)
1 bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips (I used Guittard Extra Dark Chocolate Chips*)
pinch of sea salt
1tsp vanilla extract
1 8x8 pan, "buttered" with coconut oil
1 jar of maraschino cherries (I used Tillen brand Merry Cherries)

Heat the milk in a heavy sauce pan on medium heat, stir in the chocolate chips and pinch of sea salt. Stir until the chips are melted and everything is well mixed. Take off the heat and stir in the vanilla extract. Spoon into 8x8 pan. Dot the top with the cherries and cover and chill until set.

*Guittard Extra Dark Chocolate Chips are prepared on the same equipment they make their milk chocolate on so there may be a trace of milk in them. There are good completely vegan chips available. I used the Guittard because I love the flavor of them.

So I whipped this up, and handed the pan off to my children because apparently you never get too old to "slick the pot" and TG said "This is really good chocolate!" Since she's the chocolate fiend in the family, that is a great endorsement. She wound up sitting there with a bag of open potato chips scraping out the last of the fudge from the pan.

Last night, my husband tried a piece and declared it was delicious.
I said "TG saw me make it."
"Well, that might be dangerous." he responded.
From the back corner of the living room we hear her say happily "Yup."

I suspect she's going to make a batch with potato chips on top.

Disclaimer- I got the Nature's Charm Sweetened Condensed Coconut Milk for free to review. I was not compensated or asked to provide a recipe or review on Don't Eat the Paste. I'm sharing the recipe because it's really, really good and I wanted to.