With a generous scattering of crunchy maltesers on top, this delicious maltesers chocolate fudge has just 3 ingredients and it couldn't be easier to make for homemade gifts and treats!
Every year for Christmas I make lots of lovely homemade sweets and treats for my family and I've been preparing this week by testing some new flavour variations of my 2 ingredient fudge.
Be sure to check out my recipe video so you can see just how easy these are to make!
This is a great recipe to make with kids - they'll love breaking up the chocolate, helping to smooth the fudge and pressing in the maltesers (and maybe 'helping' you by sampling a few along the way!).
This yummy maltesers fudge is perfect to make as gifts for family, friends and teachers at Christmas and all the year around.
Easy Maltesers Chocolate Fudge
Ingredients:
500g milk chocolate
1 400g tin condensesed milk
100g maltesers
Method:
Line a smallrectangular bakingtrayor cake tin with baking parchment. If you don’t have any, tin foil will also work.
Break or chop the milk chocolate into pieces and place in a large microwavable bowl. Pour over the condensed milk and mix together well.
Pop the bowl into the microwave and heat in short bursts of around 30 seconds, taking it out and stirring in between, until the chocolate has almost melted. Be careful not to overheat.
Once the chocolate is melted, beat well with a wooden spoon until it all comes together smoothly.
Tip into the tin and spread around into an even layer. Use a palette knife or spatula to smooth the top down.
Sprinkle over the maltesers, gently but quickly pushing them into the fudge with your fingertips before it sets.
Pop the tray of fudgeinto the fridge and leave to set. Once it has set hard, take it out andcut into pieces to serve.
Note: I cut mine into 6 mini slabs, scoring lines into the top and packing in cellophane bags to give as gifts.
This recipe is just one of 4 delicious new chocolate fudge flavours that I've created for Christmas this year. Pop over to my 3 Ingredient Chocolate Fudge - 4 Ways blog post or click on the image below to see the other chocolate fudge recipes!
You'll also find more flavours and topping ideas over in my 2 ingredient chocolate fudge post, or for even more fudge ideas, check out these seasonal variations too:
Milk Chocolate Mini Egg Fudgefor Easter
White Chocolate Mini Egg Fudgefor Easter
for Valentines Day
If you liked this recipe, you might enjoy these easy chocolate treat recipes too:
Giant Chocolate Jazzies
Chocolate Dipped Marshmallows
Homemade Hot Chocolate Stirrers
For more delicious treat ideas and recipes,check out theDesserts and Sweet Treatssectionhere on the Eats Amazing blog or pop over and follow myDesserts and TreatsPinterest board for recipe inspiration all the year around!
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Easy Maltesers Chocolate Fudge
Just 5 minutes to make and with only 3 ingredients, this easy maltesers chocolate fudge is perfect for homemade gifts at Christmas and all the year around!
Prep Time5 minutesmins
Chilling Time2 hourshrs
Total Time2 hourshrs5 minutesmins
Course: Dessert, Gift
Cuisine: British, Christmas
Servings: 6blocks of fudge
Author: Grace Hall
Ingredients
500gmilk chocolate
1 400gtin condensesed milk
100gmaltesers
Instructions
Line a smallrectangular bakingtrayor cake tin with baking parchment. If you don’t have any, tin foil will also work.
Break or chop the milk chocolate into pieces and place in a large microwavable bowl. Pour over the condensed milk and mix together well.
Pop the bowl into the microwave and heat in short bursts of around 30 seconds, taking it out and stirring in between, until the chocolate has almost melted. Be careful not to overheat.
Once the chocolate is melted, beat well with a wooden spoon until it all comes together smoothly.
Tip into the tin and spread around into an even layer. Use a palette knife or spatula to smooth the top down.
Sprinkle over the maltesers, gently but quickly pushing them into the fudge with your fingertips before it sets.
Pop the tray of fudgeinto the fridge and leave to set. Once it has set hard, take it out andcut into pieces to serve.
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Notes
I like to cut my fudge into 6 mini blocks, scoring lines into the top and packing in cellophane bags to give as gifts.
Want to try this recipe? Why not save it to Pinterest so you can easily find it again!
The main reason is that your Fudge has not reached the optimum temperature. If your mixture only reaches 110 or 112 degrees Celsius it will always be soft. That's why we recommend investing in a sugar thermometer. Another reason your Fudge is not setting is that the ratio of liquid to sugar is too high.
Maltesers are made in two stages. The inner crunchy part is made by making small pellets of a dough like mixture. This is placed in a low pressure container which forces the bubbles in the mixture to expand, making the pellets larger. The pellets are then coated with chocolate and polished.
If there is too much evaporation, when the cooking time is too long, there will not be enough water left in the fudge and it will be too hard. Conversely, if the cooking time is too brief and there is not enough evaporation, too much water will remain and the fudge will be too soft.
If your fudge turned out super sticky, or it didn't set as it cooled, it probably never got hot enough. This mistake is super easy to avoid if you use a candy thermometer and cook the fudge to the temperature specified in the recipe (usually between 234 and 239°F).
How can you fix soft fudge? Put it in a microwave safe bowl that is large enough that it won't boil over.Reheat it to the boiling point and cook for about 3 more minutes. Then you can beat some powdered sugar into it if this doesn't make it set.
Humidity can cause fudge to boil over in the pan or stay soft when set, so try to avoid working on humid days if at all possible. If waiting for a less humid day isn't feasible, you'll need to boil your fudge at a slightly higher temperature than usual — or just order some delicious fudge from Wockenfuss!
Once a seed crystal forms, it grows bigger and bigger as the fudge cools. A lot of big crystals in fudge makes it grainy. By letting the fudge cool without stirring, you avoid creating seed crystals.
Despite being hugely popular in the UK, Maltesers aren't available to Americans because of a dispute with Hershey over its name. Its US rival owned the rights to the name Malteser, and in 2014 Mars accused Hershey of trying to pass off its products as Mars' Maltesers.
Malteser Choc Milk is made in India. Maltesers are not suitable for vegans as they contain milk. They are, however, suitable for those following a vegetarian diet.
If you're a Maltesers fan we've got good news for you - one of their 68g treat bags came in as the third best sharing bag of chocolate with nine teaspoons of sugar. But it is still more than your recommended daily amount, so you shouldn't eat it all at once.
They have a malted milk centre with a milk chocolate surrounding. They are delicious. Everyone knows and loves Maltesers, so it is a chocolate lover's dream that they are nut-free too.
These have long been on my list to try and "veganize" - and as far as I know there aren't any vegan maltesers available on the market... so I decided to make them myself! The first step was figuring out how to get that famous malt flavour, and I discovered a barley-malt drink powder that would help achieve it.
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