Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge

This easy Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge recipe calls for only 6 ingredients and doesn’t require a candy thermometer! This rich and creamy chocolate fudge is topped with a peanut butter swirls, combining sweet and salty for a delicious and irresistible treat.

Easy Peanut butter and chocolate fudge recipe

If you love the combination of peanut butter and chocolate, you will love this chocolate peanut butter fudge swirl!

Not only is it luxurious and decadent, it’s also super simple to make:

• 6 ingredients
• no candy thermometer
• no baking
• made in microwave (stovetop can be used but not necessary)

My goal is to share a chocolate peanut butter fudge recipe that anyone can easily make. With the holidays around the corner, I want to make fudge-making less intimidating and more accessible, yet still super delicious!

This peanut butter chocolate fudge consists of rich and decadent chocolate, and is topped with peanut butter swirls that brings a little salty to the sweet.

It’s creamy, luxurious, and melts in your mouth. And we love it a whole lot.

Peanut butter chocolate fudge is so fun to make together with family during the Christmas holidays. It’s an easy make-ahead item that you can bring to parties and gatherings, and they also make the best gifts!

Ingredients

To make chocolate peanut butter fudge, here are the ingredients you will need:

• semi sweet chocolate chips – use good-quality chocolate chips – it makes a difference!
• sweetened condensed milk – do not substitute with evaporated milk or regular milk. Condensed milk is sweet and super thick in consistency.
• vanilla extract – pure vanilla extract will bring about the best flavors
• peanut butter – I like to use creamy peanut butter, but if chunky is all you have, that works as well
• butter – salted or unsalted works just fine
• salt

How to make chocolate peanut butter fudge

I’m going to show you this super easy and simple method to make chocolate peanut butter fudge.

No cooking needed – just a microwave!

What else you will need:

• 13′ x 9′ rectangular dish
• parchment paper or wax paper – this is used to line the baking dish so that it will be a lot easier to remove and slice your fudge
• sharp knife – the sharper your knife, the easier it is to cut your fudge into squares

There are two key parts to the fudge: chocolate and peanut butter.

Chocolate fudge

To make the chocolate fudge, we are simply combining chocolate chips, condensed milk and vanilla extract in a large bowl, and then heating it in the microwave.

To make sure chocolate doesn’t overheat, microwave the mixture at 50% power at 30 seconds increment. Every 30 seconds, remove bowl from microwave and stir, and repeat until all the chocolate chips are melted.

Do not try to rush it and cook it on higher power or for too long. Chocolate will burn and harden.

You can heat chocolate chips on the stovetop to melt it if you prefer.

To heat on the stove top, bring chocolate chips, condensed milk and vanilla extract to a pot. Heat under low heat, continuously stir until all chocolate chips have melted.

Peanut butter fudge

As for the peanut butter mixture, we are simply combining peanut butter, butter and a pinch of salt.

You can microwave it or cook it slowly on the stovetop as well.

Combining and refrigerating

Once you’ve melted the chocolate chips and the peanut butter separately, let’s bring them together to make chocolate peanut butter fudge swirls!

I like to layer them in distinct layers so that 1) you can actually taste the chocolate and peanut butter separately, and 2) the two distinct layers look more appealing

To do that, first you’ll want to spread the chocolate mixture onto the bottom of a rectangular 9’x13′ baking dish lined with parchment paper or wax paper.

Lining with paper is super important because that will make removing the fudge and cutting them into squares a lot easier.

Top the chocolate mixture to dollops of peanut butter. If you want to create distinct peanut butter swirls, do not overlap the peanut butter dollops.

Use a chopstick or a toothpick and spread the dollops out.

Move horizontally and then vertically so that you create the lovely swirls when you spread the peanut butter out.

Then bring your peanut butter chocolate fudge to the refrigerator and refrigerate until it hardens…about 4-5 hours.

Slicing the fudge

Once they are harden, slice them into small 1.5-2-inch squares.

Tips for slicing chocolate peanut butter fudge so that they come out nice and clean:

• Lift the whole piece of fudge out from the dish and set on a cutting board, and then peel off parchment paper or wax paper from the fudge before cutting into them. Trust me, it’s a lot easier to get rid of the paper first.
• Make sure fudge is fully solidify and cold before slicing.
• Use a sharp knife to slice your chocolate peanut butter fudge
• Fudge will stick to the knife after cutting into them, so use a towel wet with hot water to wipe off the knife every now and then.

Storage

Best way to store your peanut butter chocolate fudge is in the fridge. Store them in air tight container for up to a week.

You can also freeze fudge. Freeze them in air tight container for up to 2 months.

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