Sometimes the future seems a lot closer than I want it to. My senior year of college starts in about a month. This week I started looking at graduate schools. What is that?! I don’t even know what that means. That seems so scary for me. I guess real life is closer than I want it to be.
Sugar cures all woes. That’s my thought right now. Some may call it emotional eating…maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. That remains to be seen. One of my good friends came over this week and we made this crazy fudge. Thank heavens for Pinterest. It’s my go to place for new and interesting recipes (beside my family cookbooks). I’ve wanted to make this for awhile, and I have a really good friend with a birthday pretty soon so I finally got a chance (it’s a secret though. So don’t tell).
I’m just going to apologize for this right now…I am so sorry. This fudge is crazy. I’m so sorry…again.
There are 3 cups of sugar in this fudge. 3 cups. That’s insane to me. But it works. It gives so much sweetness to the fudge. There’s also an entire package of white chocolate chips. I am totally okay with that (remember the muffins from last post? yeah, it’s my favorite). There’s also an entire jar of marshmallow fluff. I mean, why not? And you can’t have birthday cake without sprinkles, so you might as well dump a bunch of those on top. Because that’s the way we do.
Beware: this is addicting. My friend and I may or may not have eaten a couple pieces for breakfast a few days this week (no judgement please?). It’s a good idea to have people that you can give this away to. Don’t let yourself eat the whole thing. That’s just bad news.
Okay, I’m going to go continue looking up alter-ego names for a special project. Make this fudge, watch some Comic Con coverage, and maybe run a couple miles to burn off these calories. Well, that was my plan anyway.
Birthday Cake Fudge
recipe from Mrs. Bettie Rocker
3 cups sugar
1 and 1/2 sticks of margarine
One 5 oz can evaporated milk
1 (12 oz) bag white chocolate chips
One 7 oz jar marshmallow creme
4 Tablespoons yellow cake mix (just the mix, not the batter)
1 teaspoon vanilla
blue food coloring (or any color you want)
sprinkles
Line a 9×9 square pan with aluminum foil, leaving overhang on the edges to act as handles, and spray well with nonstick spray. In a large saucepan heat sugar, margarine, and evaporated milk over medium heat. Bring this to a boil and boil for 4 minutes. Remove from the heat. Stir in the chocolate chips, marshmallow creme, and cake mix until the chocolate chips are melted. Add the vanilla and stir well. Quickly pour 1/3 of the fudge into a bowl and add food coloring and stir until your desired color is reached. Pour the white fudge into the pan and spread out evenly. Place dollops of the colored fudge on top in different areas. Swirl the colored fudge around with a knife. Generously top with the sprinkles. Leave at room temperature to cool and then place in the refrigerator to harden. Once firm, cut into squares and serve.
This fudge will last in the fridge for up to a week.