Lightening Online

This morning I made up Lisa’s fudge .  We had a storm and the power went out.  Trust that to happen to me on the only day I actually wanted to use the stove!!!!  LOL.  So, there I was stirring a pot over our camping stove (which I’m very thankful for ).  Of course, now I’m wishing I had a gas stove.  It heats up so QUICK compared to electric.  DH tells me it’s too much hassle (we’d have to have bottled gas etc).  Plus mine is only 3 years old.  *sigh*  Never mind.  We can’t everything in life that we want.  Thankfully I’d also written the recipe down (sort of) as I had no internet access without power either.

I was hoping it would be so rich that I wouldn’t eat too much of it.  WRONG!!!!  I’ve just cut it up and tiny pieces keep ending up in my mouth.  Somehow…..without any help from me whatsoever……  I think the walnuts I added have toned it down a little.  And my cooking chocolate was a dark chocolate (is dark what you’re supposed to use for that bit Lisa?).

Of course, in my usual fashion, I decided to have a play with the recipe.

Instead of using a can of condensed milk, I made up the homemade version (as I always do when a recipe calls for condensed milk).  I have no idea if 400g (as per recipe) is a can but I just used the quantity in my recipe and it seems to have turned out fine.

I wanted to make a sort of white chocolate/caramel version of the fudge.  So instead of using white sugar for the condensed milk recipe, I substituted in brown.

So make up condensed milk as follows (the easiest thing to do is make it directly into the saucepan you want to use for your fudge.:

1 cup dry milk powder

2/3 cup brown sugar

1/3 cup boiling water

3 Tbsp margarine

Mix together until smooth.

To this condensed milk mixture add:

500g white chocolate (or thereabouts.  I used what I had left which wasn’t *quite* 500g but it’ll do)

65g butter

tsp vanilla

Melt over slow-ish heat, stirring until all smooth and melted then pour into a 20cm square tin that you’ve lined with baking powder.

Mine isn’t quite set yet but I just pinched a bit and tasted it and this one really IS rich and very sweet.  If you’re not a lover of sweet stuff and white chocolate you probably won’t like it.  Hopefully my BIL’s do as they’re getting some of it for Christmas.