I can't get over how easy and quick this recipe is -
and soooooo yummmmmmy too!

Try all three varieties: the Chunky Chocolate Fudge Wreath with Walnuts and Currants, the White Chocolate Wreath with Pistachio and Cranberry or the Goober and Raisinette Wreath!
Or, just spread out in any greased pan for an everyday treat!

INGREDIENTS
• 12 ounce package semisweet chocolate chips
• 1 cup butterscotch chips
• 14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk (save the can)
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• 8 ounce can walnuts, plus more for topping
• 1/2 cup raisins or dried currants (a couple of handfuls)
• candied red and green cherries to decorate top (like holly)
• softened butter to grease an 8 inch round cake pan

1. Grease an 8-inch round cake pan with softened butter. Pour the chocolate and butterscotch chips, condensed milk and vanilla into a medium saucepan. Put the pan on the stove and turn the heat to low.
2. Cover the empty condensed milk can with plastic wrap and put it in the center of the round cake pan.
3. Stir the chips and milk until they melt together, about 3 minutes. Stir in nuts and raisins. Scoop the fudge into the cake pan all around the plastic-covered can in the center to form a wreath or ring shape. Let it be all bumpy on top. Keep pushing the can back to the center if the fudge moves it away from there. Cut the red cherries in half with scissors and the green cherries into quarters. Use the green pieces to make leaves and the red to make holly berries. Decorate the fudge with several groups of holly berry sprigs made from the cherries and garnish with walnuts between the sprigs.
4. Put the fudge in the fridge and chill until firm. Remove the can from the center, then loosen the sides and bottom of the fudge with a spatula. Cut the fudge into thin slices to serve.
To give the wreath as a gift-wrap in cellophane and secure with a bow or ornament.

Variations:
White Chocolate Wreath with Pistachio
and Cranberry
• Substitute the chocolate chips with white chocolate chips, 1 1/2 ounce bag plus 1 cup.
• Substitute 1 to 1 1/2 cups of shelled natural pistachio nuts for walnuts.
• Substitute 1/2 cup dried sweetened cranberries for currants.
Goober and Raisinette Wreath
• Swap butterscotch for peanut butter chips
• Swap large whole peanuts for walnuts used in original recipe (such as peeled Virginia Peanuts)
• Swap 1/2 cup large raisins for currants in original recipe

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Lynne's knitting journal
"I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???"

Weezie!!! That was the fudge I made!
The one she demonstrated on Oprah!

It is sooooooooooo yummy!
But I didn't make it in a wreath...
just put it into a rectangular pan...

can't wait to make it for gifts!
I'm already planning on making some to send to my son, and my nephew up at school where my son lives, and my son's girlfriend, and...

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Lynne's knitting journal
"I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???"

Ohhhhhhhhhh, those sound very tasty!!!
Let me know how they turn out!!!!

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Weezie

Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have
done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
- Bible - Hebrews 13:2





http://photobucket.com/albums/y250/weezie13/

Haven't tried them, yet...
but... today is a snow day, so I just might have to do it!
And... I just bought orange extract too!
Just love orange and chocolate together!
Hope I don't run out of choc. chips - Don and Amy have been stealing my bags and eating them!!!

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Lynne's knitting journal
"I'm spayed, declawed, and housebound - how's YOUR day going???"

Lynne, do you shop at Sam's at all? I ALWAYS get my choco Cips there in the BIG bags...they are a lot better quality (I think) and a real bargin! I keep one of those big bags i the freezer and just pop them out when I need them!

~V~

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Happiness, like a dessert so sweet.
May life give you more than you can ever eat...
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That recipe does look easy Lynne. May have to try it since my other flopped. Of course it was totally my fault. When I told Dan how I made it, he told me that fudge making was a science. Obviously I failed the class

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We are all under the same stars... therefore we are never far apart.

Triss, I have made the harder to make kind of fudge before....got lucky and it turned out. But I have found that these easy to make fudge recipes are MUCH easier and less stressful and taste just as good! I'm going to make a batch of the recipe listed above and then a batch with peanut butter chips instead of the butterscotch...just for something different. I think I'm gonna make those right now.

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