Fudge!

I'm a bit of a control freak in the kitchen, I do not like little kids running round me in what I see as the most hazardous environment in the home. They are noisy and messy and they put little fingers in places where they shouldn't and it's something I have never been good at handling. I can already hear you all screaming at me but hear me out on this one, I'm trying. I am so good in emergencies, in harsh environments, in confrontational situations, blood, guts gore I'm there cool as a cucumber, dentists and hospitals too but leave me in the midst of screaming children and blind panic engulfs me like a tsunami.

 I decided this morning however that this is not necessarily beneficial to the little trolls learning and that if I could keep my blood pressure at a suitable level for long enough, I might actually be able to get the kids cooking and it MAY even be fun and keep them from fighting for a while. So off we went this morning to buy a few of the ingredients I didn't already have and when we came home we made Fudge.

Now I even went to the trouble of taking photographs of the event, but on going to load them onto the computer, I have realised the memory card was not in the camera in the first place, but this is due to having to concentrate on my BP you realise,lol.  Anyway I have just taken a photo of the finished product, still setting in its tin instead.

In the background is my second attempt at soap, nothing goes according to plan and this has come out exceedingly wonky, I'll have to get people drunk before I can give it to them as gifts!

Now I found a recipe on the Internet, but again as I was so busy with my concentration elsewhere I messed up the recipe, it does however seem to have worked a treat regardless so  will share with you my messed up vanilla Fudge.

Vanilla Fudge Troll Fashion

 This produces a soft set fudge ideal for mixing into ice cream or other desserts rather than an eating fudge.

• 500g golden caster Sugar
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• 398g tin of Condensed Milk
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• 4 tablespoons milk
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• Pinch of Salt
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• 100g Salted butter
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• 1 Vanilla pod split

Line a 20cm square cake tin with silver foil extending the foil over the edges.  Grease and set aside.

Put all the ingredients into a large saucepan over a low heat and stir gently until the sugar has dissolved.

Stop stirring, turn up the heat and bring to the boil, for those of you with a sugar thermometer you want soft ball ( I just waited until it bubbled evenly across the whole pan).

Once boiling turn down the heat and cook for 10 minutes stirring to prevent burning.

Remove from the heat and take out the vanilla pod.

Beat the living daylights out of it for 10 minutes until it thickens and just starts to loose it's gloss.

Pour into your lined cake tin and leave to set.

Lick all utensils clean while the kids aren't looking :)

Once it is fully cold turn out onto a chopping board and cut into squares.  I'm not going to bother with storage instructions, because it won't last that long!

Just in case you are wondering, yes it was quite fun and yes it did stop some arguments so I am happy with a productive morning and shall spend this afternoon recovering and cleaning up the resulting mess of course.  Happy holidays ( I think,lol)