For the last 33 years I have made peanut butter fudge the way my Mom taught me. I have never strayed from her recipe, because the people I make it for love it that way. This year, I decided to try something a little different and made a batch that is Vegan! A little more of a PITA than the original recipe, but DAYUM!
Peanut Butter Fudge
Yield: makes ~3lbs of fudge
What you will need:
3/4 cup vegan butter
3 cups sugar
5oz evaporate milk (I make my own using soy milk)
10 oz marshmallows (I use Dandies)
12.5oz creamy peanut butter (your favorite vegan brand will work good)
1 tsp vanilla
How to Make the Peanut Butter Fudge:
In a sauce pan over medium heat put the sugar, butter and milk and let that come up to a boil, stirring with a whisk almost constantly so it doesn't burn.
Once it starts to boil, let it do so for 7 minutes. Remember to keep stirring.
When you hit 7 minutes, take a small spoonful of that mixture and pour it into a some cold water (as cold as you can get it from your tap). I like to use a 1/2 cup measuring cup. Let that sit a moment (I like to clean my spoon while it sits, seems to be the perfect timing mechanism for me, and my spoon is ready to go again if needed). When you have your spoon clean, pour off the water from the mixture in the measuring cup, and see if you can form the cooled mixture into a ball with your finger. You just want it to hold together. If it starts to spread back out and won’t stay in the ball, quickly clean your measuring cup, put more cold water in it, and repeat until you are able to form a ball with the mixture.
Once you get the ball formed, the rest is ready to go and you can now add the peanut butter, vanilla and marshmallows.
The vegan marshmallows do not like to melt that easy, so this step will require a lot of whisking to get it all to mix together smoothly. What I did for the batch seen above is that I put a glass bowl over a small sauce pan of boiling water and I put the peanut butter in it, and I cut up the marshmallows into smaller pieces and tossed them in as well to get it all hot. While this still didn't make the marshmallows into a "creme", it sure made it easier when mixing it all together.
Once you have added the last ingredients and got it mixed good, pour it in into a pan. You can either line it with parchment paper, or coat it with a little butter.
Let it completely cool, cut, and enjoy!
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