It’s time for a Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe. Did you realize today is both Father’s Day and National Fudge Day?
Fudge is a yummy confection made with sugar, milk, butter, and your favorite flavoring. Some of the most popular fudge recipes include chocolate, peanut butter, maple, caramel, peppermint, and marshmallow.
Coming from an American legend, the first batch of fudge was the result of a botched batch of caramels.
Yum, this special day gave me a reason to beg my hubby for his famous Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Fudge. It’s always so yummy. Everyone that tries it begs for more.
Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe
The ingredients needed for this Traditional Peanut Butter Fudge recipe are quite simple. Grab your sugar, corn syrup, Vanilla and of course some peanut butter and butter.
Ingredients:
3 cups Sugar
1 can Evaporated Milk
1/3 cup Corn Syrup
1 stick Butter
8 oz Peanut Butter
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
Mix Sugar, Corn Syrup and Evaporated milk in large pan and cook over medium heat. Sir occasionally. Mixture will begin boiling. If it boils too close to top reduce heat slightly.
Continue cooking until mixture reaches soft ball stage (235-245 degrees). You can test for this by seeing the syrup forms a ball while in the cold water, but flattens once removed from the water.
When it reaches this stage, remove from heat. Take butter and grease inside of glass baking dish. Add remainder of butter and vanilla extract and stir until butter is melted and incorporated. Add peanut butter and continue stirring until mixture start to lose its’ sheen. Then pour into buttered baking dish and allow to cool.
- Mix Sugar, Corn Syrup and Evaporated milk in large pan and cook over medium heat.
- Sir occasionally.
- Mixture will begin boiling. If it boils too close to top reduce heat slightly.
- Continue cooking until mixture reaches soft ball stage (235-245 degrees). You can test for this by seeing the syrup forms a ball while in the cold water, but flattens once removed from the water.
- When it reaches this stage, remove from heat.
- Take butter and grease inside of glass baking dish.
- Add remainder of butter and vanilla extract and stir until butter is melted and incorporated.
- Add peanut butter and continue stirring until mixture start to lose its’ sheen.
- Then pour into buttered baking dish and allow to cool.
