2-Ingredient "Fudge"

With all the holidays fast approaching, I thought I'd share this quick, easy, and delicious fudge recipe. It tastes just like the fancy, slow cooking, candy thermometer kind. If you don't tell, they'll never know. Just a note: The only 12 oz. cans of frosting available in stores around me are the "whipped" frostings. The fudge turns out a little too soft for my taste, so I prefer the 16 oz. cans of regular frostings and I just use 3/4ths of the can. But, to each his own.

2-Ingredient “Fudge”

Ingredients
1 (12 ounce) can (or 3/4ths of a 16 oz. can) of ready to spread chocolate frosting
1 (12 ounce) package chocolate chips*
(I like nuts, so I add chopped walnuts)


Directions
1. Melt the chips in a 4-cup glass measuring cup. Microwave for 1 minute @ 50% power. Stir. Microwave another minute at 50% power.
2. Add frosting and stir until combined. (add nuts if desired)
3. Pour into an 8x8 pan sprayed with Pam cooking spray.
4. Chill until set, about an hour.


*You can use milk chocolate or semi sweet. Try any other flavor combo you can think of.
For Thanksgiving: I like Nestle’s butterscotch morsels and vanilla icing and I add chopped pecans.

For Christmas gifts: white chocolate chips, vanilla icing and add dried cranberries and pistachios (note to mom: you have to take the nuts out of the shell !)

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