Slow Cooker Halloween Fudge Recipe
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I love making new slow cooker fudge recipes and I love it even more when I can make a seasonal fudge. One of the first recipes we made was Slow Cooker Pumpkin Fudge but I thought I’d make a more typical Halloween fudge.
What is Halloween Fudge?
This easy Halloween Fudge is our basic chocolate fudge, complete with Halloween sprinkles on the top. It’s a simple mix of milk chocolate and sweetened condensed milk – although you can use light condensed milk for a slightly more low calorie version if you want to.
We add whatever spooky Halloween sprinkles we can find to the top of this fudge but you could also add any Halloween themed sweets to the top – Halloween chocolates or Halloween jelly sweets, things like candy corn work really well and any orange sweets look fantastic too.
Although we make this autumn slow cooker fudge using milk chocolate, you could also make a white chocolate fudge or dark chocolate fudge, whatever you feel like. You could also make a flavoured fudge if you wanted – chocolate orange fudge or mint chocolate fudge for example.
If you choose to make a Halloween white chocolate fudge, you could add food coloring to make it match any Halloween theme you’ve chosen. Whether that’s green fudge, orange fudge or a creepy mish mash of colours.
How long does slow cooker fudge keep for?
This slow cooker fudge keeps well in the fridge, in an airtight container for a couple of weeks. The flavour matures over the first couple of days of it being in the fridge so you get the full flavour after it’s been in the fridge for a few days.
Can you make this fudge in the microwave?
Many people make fudge in the microwave but I much prefer the control I have when I make it in the crock pot or slow cooker. If you don’t have a slow cooker, make it in the microwave by putting the ingredients in a microwave safe bowl and heating on short bursts in the microwave, stirring in between. Then follow the instructions as per the recipe below.
Can you make slow cooker fudge with evaporated milk?
Our slow cooker fudge works because condensed milk has a really high sugar content, needed to create that beautifully rich fudge. Evaporated milk isn’t the same, doesn’t have that sugar content and isn’t thick enough to help the fudge thicken and set. You can’t use evaporated milk in these recipes – so get some condensed milk instead.
Do you cook slow cooker fudge high or low temperature?
We always cook fudge on a high slow cooker temperature setting and it takes around 40 minutes in total. You could make it on the low setting but it would take longer and would still need to be stirred regularly. You may as well keep the slow cooker on high and be done in under an hour!
When cooking, is the slow cooker fudge lid on or off?
When making slow cooker fudge, you need to remove the slow cooker lid otherwise excess moisture would be retained in the slow cooker pot and the fudge wouldn’t thicken as it needs to.
What equipment do you need to make slow cooker fudge?
Slow cooker fudge doesn’t need anything special to make it, and you probably already have everything you need at home, but this is the equipment we use:
- A slow cooker
- A wooden spoon
- A spatula
- A square baking tin
- Baking paper sheets
- Food scales
- Good quality knives to cut the fudge into pieces
- Airtight containers for storage
- Food gift bags to package it up and give the fudge as gifts
Once you’ve got everything you need to make the fudge you can just keep making it again and again – in so many different flavours too!
If you’re looking for other fudge flavours to try, here’s our peanut butter fudge, caramel fudge, Lotus Biscoff fudge and After Eight fudge. You can see all our fudge recipes to date here.
So here’s our easy Slow Cooker Halloween Fudge Recipe made with just three ingredients:
Ingredients
- A 397ml tin condensed milk
- 400g milk chocolate – can be bars or sweet chocolate chips
To decorate
- 30g of Halloween sprinkles
Instructions
- Break the chocolate up and add to the slow cooker bowl with the condensed milk.
- Turn the slow cooker on to high and leave to cook for 40 minutes with the lid off, stirring every ten minutes with a wooden spoon.
- When thick and well combined, pour into a tin lined with parchment paper / baking paper or a silicone baking tray and top with the sprinkles
- Put in the fridge to set – preferably overnight.
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Slow Cooker Halloween Fudge Recipe
Ingredients
- 397 ml condensed milk
- 400 g milk chocolate – can be bars or sweet chocolate chips
To decorate
- 30 g Halloween sprinkles
Instructions
- Break the chocolate up and add to the slow cooker bowl with the condensed milk.
- Turn the slow cooker on to high and leave to cook for 40 minutes with the lid off, stirring every ten minutes with a wooden spoon.
- When thick and well combined, pour into a tin lined with parchment paper / baking paper or a silicone baking tray and top with the sprinkles
- Put in the fridge to set – preferably overnight.
*Note: Nutritional information is estimated, based on publicly available data. Nutrient values may vary from those published.
