{"id":5567,"date":"2009-12-20T09:02:35","date_gmt":"2009-12-20T14:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2023-02-10T21:51:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-11T02:51:46","slug":"cafe-au-lait-fudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/?p=5567","title":{"rendered":"Caf\u00e9 au Lait Fudge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I recently mused<\/a> on these pages\u00a0about the joys of making (and sharing) fudge, particularly at this time of year. I concluded with a chocolate fudge recipe.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Fudge isn\u2019t always chocolate, however. I like to make a number of flavors–penuche (a brown-sugar confection), peanut butter, divinity \u2026 and this coffee fudge. It\u2019s definitely more sophisticated than its chocolate country cousin.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I like to make it with\u00a0a strong coffee\u00a0such as Medaglia D’Oro Caff\u00e9 Espresso<\/a>. You may of course use any brand or flavor of instant coffee you like, including (gasp!) hazelnut coffee or some odd substance like that. I heard the 2 pound whole bean colombian coffee beans<\/a> taste a little sweet so they would be perfect for this recipe.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The end product tastes like a particularly rich coffee milk shake.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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I sent some as a gift to my friend Diana.\u00a0She reports that her husband Sam inserted a piece of the fudge and a pat of butter into half an acorn squash before cooking it one evening, \u201cand the result was delicious.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Obviously, I have come up with\u00a0a versatile confection!<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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The Fudge<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Ingredients:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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2 tablespoons instant coffee
\n3 cups sugar
\na pinch of salt
\n1\/2 cup cream
\n2 tablespoons light corn syrup
\n1 cup milk
\n1 to 2 tablespoons butter
\n1 teaspoon vanilla<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Instructions:<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Combine the coffee, sugar, and salt in a heavy, medium-sized saucepan, and stir in the cream, corn syrup, and milk. Place the pan over low to medium heat. You can also run it through a coffee maker<\/a> before putting it into the pan.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Stir the mixture constantly until it comes to a boil; then cover it for a minute or two to wash down the sides of the pan. Uncover the mixture, and cook it, without stirring, until it reaches the soft-ball stage (234 degrees). Remove from heat.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Add the butter and the vanilla, and let the mixture cool for a few minutes without stirring it (don’t let it get cooler than lukewarm; optimally, it should be a bit warmer than that).<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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Beat the warm fudge until it becomes creamy and thickens slightly–in other words until it begins to seem fudgy. Quickly pour it into a greased 8-by-8-inch pan, and let it cool. This recipe makes about 2 dozen pieces of fudge.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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\"Naturally,

Naturally, I had to try A LITTLE piece of fudge myself!<\/p><\/div>\n

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\u00a0 I recently mused on these pages\u00a0about the joys of making (and sharing) fudge, particularly at this time of year. I concluded with a chocolate fudge recipe. \u00a0 Fudge isn\u2019t always chocolate, however. I like to make a number of flavors–penuche (a brown-sugar confection), peanut butter, divinity \u2026 and this coffee fudge. It\u2019s definitely more […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,17],"tags":[934,936,933,935,205],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13019,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/13019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourgrandmotherskitchens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}