Fruitcake White Chocolate Fudge Recipe
This colorful and festive Christmas treat is delicious and beautiful. Candied fruit, pecans and rum flavor make this Fruitcake White Chocolate Fudge Recipe extra special. It is super easy to make too! No thermometer needed.
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Fruit and Nut Fudge Recipe
I call this Fruitcake Fudge. But it is also known as Jeweled Fudge. Whatever you call it, this Christmas dessert will be a new family favorite!
Okay. Okay. I love fruitcake!
Not the weird store bought brick. But homemade fruitcake is so wonderful. My grandmother used to make The Best fruitcake every Christmas. Unfortunately, she must have memorized her amazing fruitcake recipe.
I know I’ll never be able to recreate that rum soaked cake of hers. So I just make other types of desserts with a fruitcake twist, like this Fruitcake White Chocolate Fudge Recipe.
Every time I create a fruitcake inspired recipe I think of my sweet German grandmother . . . and wish I had her darn recipe!!!
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Fruitcake White Chocolate Fudge
Ingredients
- 1 Tablespoon Butter
- 12 ounces White Chocolate Morsels
- 1/2 Cup Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1/2 teaspoon Sea Salt
- 1/2 Cup Chopped Pecans
- 1½ Cups Chopped Candied Fruit I used lemon, pineapple, red cherries and green cherries
- 1/4 teaspoon Rum Extract
Instructions
- Line loaf pan with foil and generously grease with butter. Layer a handful of nuts and fruit on the bottom of pan. Set aside.
- In 3.5 quart pot over medium/low; combine butter, white chocolate, condensed milk and salt.
- Heat and stir until chocolate is melted and smooth.
- Remove from heat. Stir in rum extract, fruit and pecans.
- Transfer to prepared loaf pan and spread evenly, gently pressing down.
- Refrigerate overnight.
- Remove from pan. Carefully peel off foil. Cut into squares.
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I want that MORE than I want any fruitcake!
Thanks for sharing this perfect recipe. It was too simple!!!!!!!
Hi
I wanted to know how long can we keep it. And how. And i dont get rum extract here in kerala India. So what can i use instead of that. Thanks….
Fudge is usually good kept in an sealed container for about a week. After that it starts to get a bit stale and dry. As far as the extract, you can use whatever flavor you prefer or have access to. Vanilla or almond extract would work too 🙂
Where do you get candied fruit at? I’ve never seen it in the store ??
It is at most grocery stores around the holiday season in the seasonal section 🙂
Can I freeze it? If so, for how long?