Candy Recipes
Cinnamon Chocolate Fudge
Yield: about 3 pounds
Ingredients
- 4 (1 ounce) squares unsweetened chocolate
- 3 cups granulated sugar
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
- 2 tablespoons light corn syrup
- 1 1/4 cups milk
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 cups pecans or walnuts, broken
Instructions
- Melt chocolate in 3 quart saucepan on lowest heat or over hot water. Stir in sugar, cinnamon, corn syrup and milk. Clip a candy thermometer to the side of the saucepan. Increase heat to medium and cook, stirring until sugar dissolves. Wash crystals from side of pan. Cook to 238 degrees F (soft-ball stage).
- Remove from heat; add butter and, without stirring, let cool to 110 degrees F or lukewarm.
- Add vanilla extract and beat until mixture begins to thicken.
- Stir in nuts and continue beating until candy holds its shape.
- Drop from spoon onto buttered wax paper or pour into buttered pan.
- When cool, cut into squares.