Chocolate Fudge



I am staying with my brother, sister-in-law and their three year old daughter who is crazy about chocolate. To indulge her sweet tooth, I made chocolate fudge. It's a simple recipe from Hershey's that I changed a little bit. I reduced the sugar a little since my niece will be eating. She watched me make this recipe and was very excited asking when she could eat it. She absolutely loved it, saying yummy a few times! :)

Ingredients:
Unsweetened cocoa powder - 2/3 cups (I used Hershey's dark cocoa powder, unsweetened)
Sugar - 2 1/2 cups
Milk - 1 1/2 cup ( I used whole milk)
Salt - 1/8 tsp
Butter - 4 tbsp ( room temperature)
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp

*Mix cocoa powder, sugar, milk, and salt in a large saucepan. Make sure saucepan is big, since the mixture has to boil and reduce.
*Bring the mixture to a boil on medium heat, stirring continuously. Mixture tends to precipitate if it is not stirred continuously.
*When the mixture starts to boil all over, not just the edges, stop stirring.
*Let the mixture boil to the consistency where if a drop of the hot cocoa mixture is added to cold water it forms a soft ball. A soft ball is where the mixture is a ball in the water, but becomes flat when flattened with fingers. Hershey's mentions a temperature of 234F for soft ball formation. I used the water and ball test.
*Take the mixture off heat.
*Add vanilla and butter. Do not stir. Let it cool to lukewarm temperature, about 110F as per Hershey.
*Butter a 8/9" cake pan.
*Beat the lukewarm mixture until it loses some shine.
*Pour the mixture in the buttered pan, and leave it to cool and set.
*Cut into squares. Devour!!

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