Bad Manners and Brimstone

Does anyone have any fudge recipes?  Anything with ingredients that do not include chocolate chips or marshmellow fluff.  I can't (don't want to actually) go to the stores just for a few ingredients.  I tried making some fudge but it wouldn't harden properly.  It's worse than "spoon fudge" lol.  The ingredients were sugar, hershey cocoa powder, milk, vanilla and butter.  I have 2% milk so maybe that's why it didn't set?  I do have condensed and evaported milk tho'.  Help!!!!  and thank you in advance!!

This isn't going to help you with non-store-trip fudge. But I usually make fudge with Marshmallow Fluff.  And several years ago, I wrote them a letter suggesting they change the wording of their recipe on the jumbo container--and they did!

If you have evaporated milk or sweetened condensed milk, you might be able to find a recipe that uses those. (the Marshmallow Fluff one uses evaporated milk, but of course you have to buy the fluff...)

1 oz of unsweetened chocolate can be substituted for 3 tbsp of cocoa + 1 tbsp of butter.  So then you just have to figure out how much sugar to use if it is bittersweet, semisweet or milk chocolate chips.  The one conversion I looked at says 3 tbsp sugar; it didn't specify which but I'm guessing that's either semisweet or milk chocolate.

I looked for recipes.  Lots on Food Network, Martha Stewart, Kraft - have a look and tell us how it goes!

I should thank you for reminding me that I have a jumbo tub of Marshmallow Fluff in the cabinet, and I'm pretty sure I have evaporated milk too.

I'm going to look into making fudge!

I was charmed to learn a while ago that fudge was pioneered in American women's colleges in the 1890s. The meals they were served were severely plain, and the girls craved sweets; so they took to taking the milk, sugar and butter they were given back to their rooms, mixing it all together a metal dish, and balancing the dish on top of a gas lamp to cook! What a wonderful picture; all these studious girls in their leg-of-mutton sleeves and floor-length skirts, standing precariously on chairs to make their illicit fudge.

I was looking for ways to use up buttermilk yesterday and came across a buttermilk - pecan fudge recipe. https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/pecan-buttermilk-fudge

well, Velveeta has a smooth melting quality (which is why it is so good in grilled-cheese sandwiches), so that part makes sense.

Two lbs of powdered sugar?
Smoked Gouda fudge would taste good with that much sugar.

Now I'll be looking for Velveeta next time I go grocery shopping.