Comments on: Peanut Butter Fudge

By: tink

tink — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 06:12:12 +0000

I’ve made this a couple times since you posted it…both times came out great.

I made it again yesterday as a second layer for chocolate peanut butter fudge.

I didn’t realize until after I had already put it all together that I had used reduced fat peanut butter instead of regular.

It still tastes good, but has a strange consistency — almost like the filling of those Abba Zabba candy bars- like a cross between fudge and taffy…

Just thought I’d pass this along.

Thanks again for all you do

By: travesti

travesti — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:03:25 +0000

hi thanks for sharing

Merry Christmas:)

By: Caanan

Caanan — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 15:05:44 +0000

Yay! Just made this in a hotel. Hopefully my arm will be able to recover before long.

Not sure how long I’ll be able to let it cool–it smells so good!!!

By: candice

candice — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 23:10:52 +0000

I was JUST about to recommended the skippy natural PB, but I see someone else did. Its delicious!

By: Keter

Keter — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:08:33 +0000

Results photos are up. The only thing I would do differently is that I would melt the chocolate with some butter and sugar using a method similar to the fudge – the chocolate chips did not melt as I expected them to and made the fudge difficult to cut. (Nothing a hot knife couldn’t deal with.) I also cut the fudge into 16 pieces – and the result was too large for one serving. I would recommend using two pans if you use a whole jar of PB as I did to make the fudge thinner. I’m guessing a thickness of about 3/4″ to 1″ would be about right, mine came out about 1-1/3″.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:30:19 +0000

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!

By: Sun

Sun — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 09:11:10 +0000

Skippy makes a Natural peanut butter w/o trans fat and w/o HFCS. The ingredients are: roasted peanuts, sugar, palm oil & salt. It tastes like their regular peanut butter and there’s no separation of oil It has the brown lid vs. the blue.

By: Keter

Keter — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 04:43:51 +0000

Ok, I used Tree of Life Organic peanut butter to make this recipe. I used a whole 18 oz. jar – just slightly more than 1 cup after the separated oil was poured off the top. I didn’t bother adding back any of the oil because the PB was already pretty liquid, except for the very bottom. I increased the sugar and vanilla slightly to compensate for the extra PB.

I stirred the PB back together before I microwaved it. The PB/butter mix was very liquid after 2 minutes in the microwave. I used a whisk to remove a few remaining lumps of hard PB.

After adding the sugar, I decided the mix still looked too wet, so I kept adding sugar unti the mix looked dry and pulled away from the sides of the bowl by itself.

I did a variation using Ghiradelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate chips by placing a layer of chips on the bottom of the lined pan before I put the warm fudge dough over the top.

I slapped the fudge thoroughly with the palm of my hand to remove voids, covered with a piece of parchment and placed on a cooling rack in the refrigerator.

The dough that was left in the bowl tastes almost exactly like the inside of a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. )

Pictures are here: http://flickr.com/photos/keter_magick/sets/72157611349225302/

I’ll add a photo of the finished result once it has cooled.

By: Keter

Keter — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 20:41:56 +0000

The trick for using natural PB is likely going to be to pour off some of the separated oil. Natural PB is not emulsified to keep the solids and oil mixed, and my experience is that when you mix it thoroughly, it becomes pretty runny. So I would pour off all of the oil and then slowly stir it back in, stopping when a consistency similar to commercial peanut butter is reached. Then it should be good to go. Some commercial PBs also contain corn sweetener and lots of salt, so you might want to taste-test your natural PB creation and add more sugar and/or salt if needed.

I’m going to make this today with natural PB, and I’ll post the result this evening or tomorrow. I think I may put chocolate chips in mine, though. ;o)

By: Heather

Heather — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:41:46 +0000

The nutrition comment was at Heidi in reference to her hydrogenation comment. I honestly don’t care for the flavor of natural peanut butter, we’ll blame my parents and I’m perpetuating it.