What to do withs loads of left over fudge?

leeegglestone

Ive found a box of cookie mix, in back of cupboard. The Best Before has gone however Im sure it is still ok.

One of the variations on the box was to make the cookie dough and use as the base of millionaire shortbread and included recipe for fudge.

I remembered i had a box of baileys fudge and though hmm can I use this instead.

I got one square, melted it and cooled it as i was curious to see what heating and cooling would do to it, if it would go rock hard or just not harden again. turns out its harder than the original block

Is there anything I could do to make it a bit softer/like fudge is in millionaire shortbread?
Would adding some evaporated milk or regular milk to the melted fudge to any good and still harder sufficiently on cooling, not too much as it should be topped off with chocolate

MrsBartolozzi

I've always had caramel in millionare's shortbread rather than fudge so maybe a recipe for caramel would work better instead?
As for the Bailey's fudge, well when you make fudge, caramel, toffee etc their ingredients are mostly the same but the difference in texture comes from the heat you let them boil to or the length of time they are boiled for. A hard fudge (like I'd assume your bailey's is) has been boiled at a much higher temp than a softer version and you can't "unboil" it (if you know what I mean) so it can only get harder the more you cook it, as you've found.
Personally I'd make a nice soft caramel for the millionare's shortbread, or just make cookies with your mix and enjoy the Bailey's fudge as it is!

rhosynbach

hi i have done something similar to use cheap fudge and mixed a little butter and syrup to the fudge and melted mixed well and it worked really well first attempt i used to much butter/ syrup and had to be eaten with spoon as was not quite set used less second time and worked well so it was a bit experimental

Kanichen

DH and I got given 2 boxes of fudge for Xmas - we're huge fudge fans but this stuff just isn't floating our boat - its got a strange flavour to it. Its edible but we won't enjoy eating it.

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how we could use it up? Maybe chopping it up into brownies or something? We have family visiting this weekend so should have the opportunity to offload some cake! (but its the family that gave us the fudge so we can't just share the box!) Any ideas or recipes welcome!

Radish72

I would chop it up and sprinkle over some ice cream as I'm definetly not a whizz in the kitchen

charlies-aunt

Could you put a vanilla pod in the box to see if it will infuse it with vanilla flavour?

Chopped up in Brownies sounds good or maybe mixed in with chocolate cornflake buns?

Melt it in the microwave with a little milk - add vanilla/chocolate to make a hot, thick fudge sauce maybe?

Let me know if you get desperate to get rid of it.....as I'd be happy to help you out....nom,nom

daska

chop it up and add it to biscuit dough. Then give them a huge box to take home.

Swan_2

pea-sized chunks are nice added to muffin batter, chocolate & fudge is nice

& if you want to make them look pretty, save some to cut into tiny cubes, then just after the muffins come out of the oven, brush the tops with warm syrup & sprinkle on some of the cubes

kittycat204

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/apple_fudge_cake_04008

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/raspberryandfudgecha_84343

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