No cook cream cheese fudge
No cook cream cheese fudge recipe in the fudge category
Recipe ingredients:
- 2, 1 ounce, squares unsweetened baking chocolate or 2 packets premelted chocolate
- 2 cups sifted confectioners sugar
- 4 ounces cream cheese, room temperature
- 1 tablespoon milk, half and half or cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup chopped nuts, optional
- 1 cup coconut, optional
- 1 cup other flavor chips, optional
Recipe method:
- Is using packets of chocolate, warm them for a few minutes in a bowl of hot tap water.
- To melt chocolate in microwave, nuke on 50% power for 90 seconds, stirring every 30 seconds.
- Butter a 10 x 5 inch pan.
- Place sugar in bowl of food processor fitted with the metal blade.
- Add cream cheese and softened baking chocolate.
- Process until lumpy and granular. Scrape down sides.
- Add milk and pulse until mixture is smooth and creamy.
- Stir in extract and any optional ingredients desired.
- Pour into prepared pan.
- Chill several hours before cutting.
- This fudge may be frozen.
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- Butterscotch no cook cream cheese fudge: Use 1 cup butterscotch chips. Microwave on high for 60 seconds. Stir, microwave another 30 seconds, then add to the sugar-cream cheese.
- Peanut butter no cook cream cheese fudge: Use 3 ounces of cream cheese. Replace the chocolate with either 1/3 cup creamy peanut butter or 1 cup peanut butter chips, microwaved to melt. Add salted peanuts if desired.
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