Banana chocolate fudge
Banana chocolate fudge recipe in the fudge category
Recipe ingredients:
- 1 medium ripe banana, mashed
- 2 ounces unsweetened chocolate, broken
- 1/2 cup firmly packed brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup milk
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, optional
Recipe method:
- In a saucepan, combine banana, chocolate, brown and granulated sugars, milk, salt and corn syrup.
- Stirring constantly, cook mixture over medium heat until the sugars dissolve.
- If sugar crystals form on the sides of the pan, wipe them off with a pastry brush dipped in water.
- Clip a candy thermometer to the side of the saucepan, and cook over medium heat, stirring the mixture occasionally to prevent sticking, until it reaches the soft ball stage, 236 degrees F.
- Remove the pan from the heat.
- Add the butter without stirring.
- Cool the mixture until lukewarm, 110 degrees F.
- Add vanilla extract.
- Beat fudge until it loses its gloss and starts to thicken.
- Pour it into a buttered loaf pan.
- Sprinkle the fudge with chopped walnuts, if desired.
- Gently press walnuts into the fudge with a spoon.
- When fudge is cool and firm, cut the fudge into 32 pieces.
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