Easy Chocolate Fudge

By emp1438

Ingredients

• 2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 1 can (14 oz.) sweetened condensed milk
• 1 cup chopped walnuts
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Preparation

Step 1

Line an 8-inch square baking pan with foil.

Mix chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk in medium, heavy-duty saucepan.

Warm over low heat, stirring until smooth. Remove from heat; stir in nuts and vanilla extract.

Spread mixture evenly into prepared baking pan. Refrigerate for 2 hours or until firm.

Lift from pan; remove foil. Cut into pieces.

Makes 36 pieces of fudge.



Variations:

Chocolate Mint Layered Fudge:

Use one recipe with a combination of milk and semi-sweet chips, and one recipe using green mint flavored chips.
Pour a layer of chocolate mixture into two pans, then pour a layer of mint mixture on top of the chocolate layer.


Peanut Butter Chocolate Layered Fudge:

Use one recipe with a combination of milk and semi-sweet chips, and one recipe using peanut butter flavored chips.
Pour a layer of chocolate mixture into two pans, then pour a layer of peanut butter mixture on top of the chocolate layer.


Rocky Road Fudge:

Add a cup miniature marshmallows and chopped walnuts to the chocolate mixture right after removing from heat, stir well.


Chocolate Cherry Fudge:

Make two recipes of fudge - one chocolate recipe then another recipe substituting white chocolate chips for the semi-sweet chips, increase the amount of chips to 2 1/2 cups.
To the white chocolate recipe add cherry flavoring , red food coloring, and 3/4 cup chopped maraschino cherries to the mixture after removing from heat.
Layer cherry mixture on top of chocolate mixture.