I would like to start off this post by saying that I started out ahead of the game for this Crazy Cooking Challenge. I found my fudge recipe before my mashed potato recipe was even in the pot. However, after an epic fail to end all other epic fails, I had to abandon my original choice, which I'm okay with because I think what I did end up making is pretty fantastic.
This challenge was definitely stretching for me. Once I found a new recipe after the first fudge failure, I was thrilled! I came across
this recipe
for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Fudge from Bridget at Bake at 350 on Pinterest. Now I usually detest
chocolate chips unless they're completely melted into my cookie (I have a
tendency to eat around them when chowing down on raw cookie dough); I
must say, though, that in this recipe, the chips help keep the fudge
from being overly sweet. However, once I printed out the instructions and started to get everything around, I noticed that in my haste to rescue this post, I had ignored to key elements of this recipe. 1) A candy thermometer was called for and 2) so was a stand mixer with a paddle attachment. Other "f" word!
After two phone calls to the Maternal Unit, a trip to the kitchen store (which is luckily right across the sidewalk from job #2) and some tequila (okay no tequila as I had to go to work but on my next day off I'm making up for it with a pitcher of pomegranate margaritas), I was able to get to work.
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| Behold! My candy thermometer. Oh and everything stirred together, nice and smooth. |
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| Just keep stirring. Just keep stirring. Holy crap is it supposed to look like that?! |
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| Cooling down (note: there is no olive oil in this recipe, I just needed something for the thermometer to lean against). |
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| So this is the point where it calls for a paddle attachment. Well I've got your paddle attachments right here. *holds up both hands* |
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| Above all else, IT TURNED OUT! Perfect. |
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| My kitchen, on the other hand, is a whole other story. |
So that's it, my first time making fudge without Maternal Unit and marshmallow creme. I can safely say it will be at least another year before I feel the need to recreate the process. Next month for the Crazy Cooking Challenge is Chicken Noodle Soup so stay tuned for whatever I come up with and don't forget to vote for me #35! Or don't. I won't know if you don't. But there's someone who will. *reverently looks up*
