Old-Fashioned Chocolate Fudge

By zircon50

This is nice and creamy due to the addtion of heavy cream and extra

This is a great chocolate fudge recipe. It can be doubled. Make fudge on a non-humid day.

Ingredients

• 1 cup heavy cream
• 2 cups granulated sugar
• 4 oz. unsweetened chopped chocolate
• 1/2 stick unsalted butter, 4 tablespoons
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 1/2 lb. chopped walnuts, optional
• 1/4 tsp salt

Preparation

Step 1

Combine heavy cream, sugar, salt and chopped chocolate in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon until sugar dissolves. Wash down sides of pot with a pastry brush to dissolve sugar crystals.

Bring to a boil and cook until mixture reaches soft-ball stage, or 238 degrees on a candy thermometer. Remove pan from the heat and stop the cooking by plunging pot in a water bath for 1 minute. Add the butter and vanilla, but do not stir. Allow the fuge to cool. When the thermometer reads 110 degrees, sitr fudge with a wooden spoon until creamy and starting to set up. Add the nuts if you want and mix well.

Spoon into a greased 8 x 8 baking pan. Let cool and then cut into squares.

Yield: 1 lb.