For my coworkers birthdays, I have sent surveys to ask for their favorite desserts. My one coworker said “anything with raspberries and chocolate” so I went about trying to find a fun recipe that included both. I was surfing through allrecipes.com and came upon a beautiful looking chocolate and raspberry layered fudge recipe.
It started out pretty good… made some easy chocolate fudge and layered it on the bottom… then made some of the raspberry fudge and layered it on top, then topped it with raspberries.
It sure looked pretty.
That is… until I tried to get it out.
Turns out, the top layer didn’t actually set up. It was basically raspberry mush… and it caused what can only be defined as “goop” to spread all over the fudge below as soon as I cut into it.
Don’t get me wrong, it still tasted DEElicious, but it was a sloppy, gooey, sticky mess.
The notes on the recipe said that a lot of people had this issue, and I should have listened. Only a few people had issues, so I figured they screwed up and if I followed the recipe pretty closely, I’d be fine. Wrong. It didn’t seem that the ratios between the chocolate fudge and the raspberry fudge were that different, but white chocolate does act very differently. I would make this again, but with more white chocolate and no cream, and perhaps some gelatin.
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RECIPE
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Raspberry Truffle Fudge |
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Submitted By: Leeza
Photo By: littlemisscook
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3 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed
milk
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
salt to taste
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1/4 cup heavy cream
1/4 cup raspberry flavored liqueur
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips (substitite white chocolate to get the top layer to be pink)
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| 1. | Spray a 9×9 inch pan with non-stick cooking spray, and line with wax paper. |
| 2. | In a microwave-safe bowl, combine 3 cups chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk. Heat in microwave until chocolate melts, stirring occasionally. Be careful not to let it scorch. Stir in the vanilla and salt. Spread into pan, and cool to room temperature. |
| 3. | In a microwave-safe bowl, combine cream, liqueur, and 2 cups chocolate chips. Heat in microwave until the chocolate melts; stir until smooth. Cool to lukewarm, then pour over the fudge layer. Refrigerate until both layers are completely set, about 1 hour. Cut into 1 inch pieces. |
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