#Dairy free vanilla fudge recipe how to#
#Dairy free vanilla fudge recipe Patch#

The first step to making the perfect dairy-free peanut butter fudge is melting your wet ingredients together. I promise you, this will be one of the easiest and most delicious vegan treats you’ll ever make.

#Dairy free vanilla fudge recipe how to#

*cries*Īlso, vegan condensed milk can sometimes be made with wheat as a thickener, and you can’t make gluten-free peanut butter fudge with wheat in it! How To Make Vegan Peanut Butter Fudge And I did consider using coconut condensed milk but I’m still kind of holding a grudge towards it because it failed me in a cheesecake I recently tried to make.

Obviously because this is a vegan blog, I couldn’t use dairy condensed milk, which is what most fudge recipes call for. This is not compulsory- the fudge tastes just as good with no toppings!Īnd that’s it! No condensed milk! Related: vegan peanut butter desserts If you want to add an extra something to your fudge, you can add chopped up vegan chocolate pieces and chopped peanuts. Personally, I used an 8×10-inch tin to get a few extra pieces out of the mixture! If you like your fudge super chunky, use an 8×8-inch tin. This is important so that the fudge doesn’t end up stuck to the tin and breaking. This adds sweetness and gives the fudge that ‘melt-in-your-mouth’ texture. Any kind will work for this recipe but I’ve found I get the best results when I use peanut butter with the oil added. You can use any type of dairy-free margarine as long as it’s the soft, spreadable type, not the ‘blocky’ kind. You shouldn't eat a whole slab of it if you're counting calories, but you're better off eating a square of this fudge than a square of traditional fudge. But the ingredients in this fudge are healthy. Okay! Fine! It's healthy ish! It's not an apple or a head of broccoli. I was super excited about this recipe and so was Chris, but he gave me the side-eye when I told him it was healthy. It doesn't have that buttery finish that real fudge has, but it does have a faint coconut flavor that makes up for it. This fudge is different-the texture is creamy and rich and it melts in your mouth, just like fudge made with dairy butter. And, of course, the fudge tasted like nut butter. I've had vegan fudge before, made with nut butters, and while they're good, the texture wasn't quite like fudge. But I did accidentally stumble upon the best vegan chocolate fudge I've ever tasted. …and I was wrong! I couldn't figure out how to replicate the exact texture of Ice Cubes. And after a little bit of Googling, I realized I was right! So knowing they were made with coconut oil, I figured it would be really easy to make them myself. You know those little German hazelnut chocolates that melt in your mouth? Chris loves those and when I was thinking about them a few weeks ago, I realized that they must be made with coconut oil-that was the only way to explain their melty yumminess. I've never done a Halloween post before, but I had the idea to try to make a healthy version of Ice Cubes and I figured this was a good time of year to tackle it.

Compromise! That's what marriage is all about: compromise and me getting my way. So I thought maybe this year we could compromise a little and I'd make some healthy-ish candy for us and we can hand out Skittles to the kids in the neighborhood. So basically, I don't want to eat the Halloween candy and Chris does. Chris wants to buy Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Snickers bars because he loves Reese's and Snickers.

#Dairy free vanilla fudge recipe Patch#

I want to buy Sour Patch Kids and Skittles for trick-or-treaters because I hate Sour Patch Kids and Skittles. This is the time of year when Chris and I fight about Halloween candy.