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Sometimes I crave decadence in my life -- like dessert for breakfast or cocktails on a Monday or living in a castle or chocolate almond fudge with salted caramel sauce just because.
Besides being perfectly decadent, this fudge is also easy to make; no candy thermometers or serious chocolate tempering necessary. The hardest part, by far, is waiting for it to set in the fridge. Torture.
Chocolate Almond Fudge
2 cups semisweet chocolate chips
1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
3/4 cup toasted almonds, roughly chopped
1 teaspoon vanilla extract or almond extract (depending on how strong an almond flavor you want)
Melt the chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk over medium heat (you don't even need to use a double boiler). Remove from heat and mix in almonds and extract. Line a pan with foil and spread the mixture evenly.
Caramel Sauce
(taken directly from Deb, and it works perfectly every time)
1 cup sugar
6 tablespoons butter
1/2 cup plus two tablespoons heavy whipping cream
1 teaspoon coarse sea salt, plus more for sprinkling
Melt sugar in a pan over high heat, stirring consistently. Once it has turned into an amber colored liquid, add the butter and keep stirring. Then add the heavy whipping cream, remove from heat, and continue stirring. This is where I mix in a teaspoon of sea salt, but this is totally up to the discretion of you and your tastebuds. Pour sauce over the fudge and liberally sprinkle sea salt on top. Refrigerate for at least three hours.
28 comments:
oh my, this looks and sounds positively yummy. it's not even 8:30am and i'm craving these! i love the taste of sweet and salty together. and judging by most of your recipes, you do as well!
Seriously, Olivia, how are you not the size of a house with all these treats you make?! I gain pounds every time I look at your blog! So much loveliness.
the waiting part would be torture for me too.
almost as painful as staring at these images while my mouth water uncontrollably.
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I need to make this. Sadly, I'm on a little preparing-for-summer diet... But reading this post makes me wonder why.
looks so great!
somehow, i knew that salt u had the other day would be in this recipe... :-0
I have to tell you...I had a dream about your caramel sea salt brownies last night. Like no joke lol.
These look incredible! I need to try these soon!
you've done it again!
I need to eat this right now!! I wish I could hop on a plane to Charleston immediately!
I absolutely love your blog! You have such a good spirit for life and inspire me to be a better cook! :)
Aren't these fun! I've seen these before and must say the idea of salt with the sweet is just divine and after I tried a piece of dark chocolate with sea salt, I was sold...I'm not a sweets person, but with that bit of salty added...it is divine! :)
Liesl :)
Oh these look just amazing!
this. looks. delicious. how am i supposed to NOT make these and eat the whole pan?
Olivia, surely these are illegal?
can't. stop. drooling.
whoa I'm making these asap
oh . my . word
this looks amazing.
You're right! It's in the fridge right now and after only an hour I'm growing unreasonably impatient!! I just know they'll turn out divine.
Looks divine!!
oh wowsers. I've been craving sweets this week like crazy. Due to the fact that here in georgia it's Master's Golf week which means it is extra slow at work. I'm definitely going to bookmark this. Thanks!
sunshine
Mmm sounds like my kind of fudge. Easy and delicious.
back after a long break and I've missed seeing all your desserts, yum!
Oh my goodness, I had to just make this right away. The salty fudge is now in the fridge, and it truly is torture, how am I supposed to 4 hours! xoxo
Truly divine! I made these last night and have a quick question, do you have any recommendations for cutting them? Yours have such clean lines. I left them in the fridge all through the night hoping that they would be stiffer, but they still didn't cut as pretty as yours. But they are TO-DIE-FOR! I could seriously make myself sick. :-)
Looks AMAZING!! thanks for sharing.
i made these last week and brought them into my office where my coworkers devoured them. i received so many compliments. thank you! i absolutely adore your blog and your photography. amazing!
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