Peanut Butter Fudge

Peanut Butter Fudge

Just 5 ingredients for the basic recipe, and you can add a few more simple items to dress up the fudge as you desire.
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 20 minutes
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Servings pieces of fudge

Ingredients
  

For the Fudge

  • 1 cup creamy peanut butter
  • 1 cup butter, (2 sticks)
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 3 3/4 cups powdered sugar

Additional Items / Toppings, as desired, use any as you want

  • 1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
  • 8 mini Reese cups, cut into thirds
  • 15 mini Reese cups, cut in half
  • melted chocolate/almond bark, for drizzling
  • peanuts
  • pretzels, broken

Instructions
 

  • Line a 8x8 baking pan with parchment paper or foil and two sides, this makes it easier to get the fudge out. Set aside.
  • Measure out all the ingredients, including any additional items you desire to use, the fudge goes together quickly so have everything ready for use. I used chocolate chips, mini Reeses cups, and melted chocolate.
  • Add the butter, peanut butter, salt, and vanilla extract to a medium size saucepan, and put on medium low heat.
  • As the butter melts, stir the mixture until nice and smooth and all the butter is completely melted. Remove from heat.
  • Stir in the powdered sugar, it will all mix in quickly. I added chocolate chips and mixed those in until they just started to melt.
  • Add the mixture to your prepared baking pan and spread out evenly. Here you can see the excess foil on each side of the pan, these will be used later to remove the fudge from the pan.
  • I also used mini Reeses cups, cut into thirds, and simply placed those on top of the fudge and pressed them into the fudge.
  • I then melted some almond bark and drizzled that on the fudge.
  • Place the pan in the fridge to chill and set the fudge.
  • After the fudge is chilled and firm, remove from the fridge. Cut along the two sides of the pan where there is no parchment paper or foil, then take the two ends that are coming out of the pan and simply lift the fudge out and place on a cutting board.
  • Cut the fudge in half, then cut each half in half, resulting in 4 long pieces. Turn the cutting board 90 degrees, and cut in half again, and cut each half in half again, resulting in 16 pieces. Serve and enjoy.
  • For this batch I simply cut some dark chocolate mini Reese's cups in half and added them to the top.

Notes

Low cost per serving.
Inspired by Spend With Pennies and the link to this recipe is here.
United States.

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