Oct 21 2008
My First Time: To Make “FUDGE”
My First Time to Make FUDGE, or what passed for fudge, was when I was ten years old.
I loved fudge! My Mom could make the BEST fudge! I knew she always cooked it on the stove, and she used cocoa, and then put it in the refrigerator. (Fridgidaire, I think.)
So I began by getting cocoa and mixing it with leftover, cold coffee. I heated it on the stove and after “taste-testing” I knew I needed to make it sweeter. So I turned to powdered sugar. Lots of powdered sugar, as it turned out. I kept adding and tasting, adding and tasting, but it never seemed to be quite right, always kind of “bitter,” like cocoa.
Finally, with a thick “pudding” of fudgy brown, VERY SWEET, coffee-flavored, “fudge,” I poured it into a dish and put it into the refrigerator to “harden.” I used the spatula to clean the pan and thought it tasted pretty good, even before it went into the fridge.
Of course, it never really hardened and I eventually put it into the freezer compartment, where it really did get hard.
It never really tasted like fudge either.
After that experience, I simply mixed up re-heated leftover coffee with powdered sugar and added enough cocoa to make it chocolate-ty. I more-or-less was making frosting, and it satisfied my craving for chocolate when there was nothing else in the house.
Thanks for the Comment, Sue. I have never been able to master the “fudge” that cooks on a stove. I have made the marshmallow creme and melted chocolate chips recipe quite successfully. I’ve been known to buy fudge!