Quick and Easy Butter Pecan Fudge

Craving some fudge this season?

This is the easiest fudge!

My sister Jean sent me this recipe a few years

ago and we always whip up a batch for Christmas.

We have been fudge fans since we were little when

we would go to the Wisconsin Dells, and see them

stirring huge batches of fudge in the copper kettles

and then cooling and working the fudge on marble slabs.

Fudge can be tricky though, so it is nice to find an easy

recipe that tastes great.

Butter Pecan Fudge Recipe

1/2 C. real butter (no substitutes)

1/2 C. white sugar

1/2 C. brown sugar

1/2 C. heavy whipping cream

1/4 tsp. salt

2 C. powdered sugar

3/4 to 1 C. toasted and chopped pecans

In a medium sized saucepan, bring to boil the first five ingredients.

Wash down the sides with water, using a pastry brush to

dissolve any sugar that is clinging to the sides of the pan.  This

prevents the candy from turning to sugar.

Cook for 4 minutes.  

Take off the heat and pour over 2 C. powdered sugar in 

a medium sized bowl.  Mix with a spoon until creamy,

then stir in the pecans.

Pour into an 8x8 inch pan lined with parchment paper.

If you want thicker fudge, you can pour it into a loaf pan.

Let set up and cut.  Fudge improves with age, but it is

great right away too.

Leave out the pecans and you can have penuche.

We have substituted the brown sugar for more white

sugar and made peppermint fudge.  You could try just

about any flavor.

We made it home safely from Europe and are now 

spending time with our children in Salt Lake for two

nights.  I will finish showing the Christmas Marts to

you.  It was a marvelous adventure and we were blessed

to have weather in the high 40's and 50's each day.  We 

came home to days of snow, and I realized how lucky

we were to have such great weather.