Easy Salted Caramel Fudge Recipe

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This fudge is as EASY as it is DELICIOUS! If you love sweet and salty (and easy!), this fudge is for YOU!

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Ohmygoodness. I cannot believe it’s December already!!  I mean… I know we all say that every year, but sheesh! Wasn’t that like the fastest October and November that have ever happened??

Speaking of… how was your Thanksgiving? I skipped out on a week of blogging, and it feels like it’s been FOREVER since we’ve had a good chat!

Our Thanksgiving was pretty wonderful.

We bought a Christmas tree in the morning, ate our feast for three in the afternoon, and watched Disney’s Frozen at night.

By the end of the day we were stuffed, sleepy, and happy. Just the way a perfect Thanksgiving day should end.

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And then we woke up on Friday to an explosion of Christmas and found ourselves up to our eyeballs in icicle lights, trips to the attic for boxes of ornaments, and  peppermint bark. Ehh…. ok, so I had already started the peppermint bark like a waaaaaaaay long time ago. But you get the picture.

Christmas is HERE!

And you know what? I feel like I’m seeing holiday fudge everywhere. All of my friends are posting fudge. Fudge, fudge, fudge. And if you know me, you know I can stand to be left behind. So…. fudge it is!

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There are 2 things I absolutely love about this fudge:

1) It is SO stinking easy. You know the two-ingredient fudge? Just 1 can of sweetened condensed milk + 3 cups of chocolate (or white chocolate). Well, this is exactly like that, except you use a can of Dulce de Leche (which is just sweetened condensed milk boiled to the point of becoming caramel-like) in place of the SCM! I had no idea if this would actually work, but I am SO glad it did because…

2) It’s DIVINE. It’s part caramel, part fudge and 100% amazing.

Be warned: if you make this fudge, people will become your friend for the sole reason of getting their mitts on it! (And because you’re a fabulous person, I’m sure 🙂

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Easy Salted Caramel Fudge

Yield: 24

Ingredients

  • 14 ounces Dulce de Leche*
  • 3 cups white chocolate or white candy melts**
  • 1 cup milk or dark chocolate morsels
  • a pinch or two of coarse sea salt

Instructions

  1. Prepare an 8x8 or 9x9 baking dish by lining it with foil or parchment. Lightly spray the lining with a non stick cooking spray.
  2. Over low heat, melt the white chocolate. Once white chocolate is smooth and completely melted, mix in the dulce de leche and a pinch of sea salt until completely incorporated. Mixture will be thick.
  3. Pour mixture into prepared baking dish and smooth into an even layer with a rubber spatula.
  4. Melt the milk chocolate morsels in the microwave (about 45-60 seconds of heating). Pour the melted chocolate over the fudge and spread evenly. Sprinkle with a pinch of sea salt.
  5. Let cool completely at room temperature for 3-4 hours (you can speed set in the fridge for about 30 minutes to an hour, but expect condensation on the fudge if you try to serve it at room temperature.
  6. Cut into 1 inch pieces to serve.

Notes

*This can be found in the Hispanic food aisle. OR you could boil a 14 ounce can of sweetened condensed milk for 3 hours and let cool completely.

**I prefer candy melts. You can heat candy melts at a higher temperature than white chocolate, which speeds up the process a bit and ensures a smoother melted product. White chocolate works just as well, but you'll need to melt it MUCH slower to avoid seizing or burning, never increasing the heat from LOW.

Don’t miss a bite!

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34 thoughts on “Easy Salted Caramel Fudge Recipe”

    • We really, really liked it 🙂 I thought all the characters were adorable, and I really liked the songs! My only complaint is I felt like they didn’t develop the villain’s character enough… but that’s sort of a weirdly detailed complaint for a kid’s movie 🙂

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    • I live in NZ too I am pretty sure nestle caramelised sweetened condensed milk (as they are made the same way) would work. I will et you know after I try with my neice tomorrow.

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  1. I made this yesterday and it tastes yummy but it does not look like your pic at all. The caramel part looks very light, almost a cream color.

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  2. Made this today! I had cookies on today’s to-do list, but after spending 2 1/2 hours shoveling snow this morning, this easy-to-make fudge recipe won out! Can’t wait to try it!

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  3. This looks incredible, I can’t wait to try it. Any chance of giving an estimate based on weight for the white chocolate? I live in Finland and the white chocolate sold for cooking is sold in bars so hard to measure out
    3 Cups!

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  4. Hello! I tried this recipe a few minutes ago with Market Pantry White Chocolate Chips and Nestle La Lechera Dulce de Leche. I’ve worked with chocolate before, so I am well aware of how finicky it is. I melted the white chocolate slowly, on the lowest temperature my stove allowed until it was beautiful and fully melted. I then scooped about a teaspoon of the dulce de leche and sure enough, my entire pot of gorgeous, creamy white chocolate instantly seized. I made sure not to introduce water on any of my utensils or pots or ingredient containers or hands. I have no idea what happened! Did I get the wrong kind of dulce de leche? Mine was a caramel sauce color and consistency. Are there different types?
    Any help would be much appreciated. Your recipe looks amazing!
    Thanks! c:

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  5. I too had a problem with the chocolate seizing when adding in the dulce de leche, and also used the same kind as both of you. I’ve also worked with chocolate a lot and know how white chocolate is with heating, so it stayed on low the entire time. Very upsetting to throw out so much money in ingredients. And worse to not be able to try this delicious looking fudge! 🙁 If anyone figured out what is causing the seizing, I would love to know so I can try it again sometime.

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  6. I just made these today and they turned out great! I melted the candy melts in a double boiler, and I heated up the dulce de leche in the microwave for a bit before I added it.

    I will be making these again.
    By the way, the chocolate kept cracking a little when I cut it (after it cooled down)…not sure if you have any tips on how to avoid this. Thanks for posting!

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    • Yes! I’ve recently started adding about a 1/2 tbsp coconut oil to my chocolate toppings to help keep them from cracking when I cut– it works like a charm! So glad you liked the fudge 🙂

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  7. the white chococlate siezed a little but if you are patient it melts out.
    just keep stirring..
    this was amazingly easy. I have not made anything except a box cake since i was little (I am 53) and so i needed something to help me get my feet wet.
    Yum and thank you.
    This will be the perfect gift for my girlfriend who loves salted carmel!

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  8. Just whipped some up and can’t wait to try it!  My bag of Wilton candy melts wasn’t quite 3 cups so I added some vanilla bark to make up.  It was fine when I added my dulce de leche.  It just becomes thick pretty quick.  Be sure you are buying the dulce le leche carmel and not the sauce.  It got kinda confusing at our local mexican market as there were several types.  Mine had a nkce deep carmel color.   Heck I could eat that whole can of carmel! I’ll let you knkw how mine turns out.

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  9. I’ve made your recipe a few times as gifts in years past. I always swear I’m never going to do it again because it’s really gooey. It doesn’t cut into neat little squares. It is so delicious & a requested favorite. I can’t help myself. We must give the people what they want & sage some for oneself. For taste testing, of course. How can I fix this. I’ve tried refrigerating. Then the chocolate separates & breaks off. Should I add some confectioners sugar or something to thicken it up. I appreciate your help.

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