Cocoa Fudge
Source of Recipe
Internet
List of Ingredients
- 2/3 cup Hershey's Cocoa
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 3 cups sugar
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1/8 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
Instructions
- In a 3-quart saucepan, combine cocoa, sugar and salt.
- Add milk gradually, mixing thoroughly.
- Bring to a bubbly boil over high heat, stirring continuously.
- Reduce heat to medium and continue to boil the mixture, without stirring, until it reaches a temperatue of 232 degrees, or until a small amount of mixture forms a soft ball when dropped into cold water.
- Be sure that bulb of thermometer is not resting on bottom of saucepan.
- Remove saucepan from heat; add butter and vanilla to mixture.
- Do not stir.
- Allow fudge to cool at room temperature until it reaches 110 degrees.
- Beat by hand or with an electric mixer until fudge thickens and loses some of it's gloss.
- Quickly pour and spread fudge in a lightly buttered 8x8x2" pan.
- Cut into squares.
- Yields about 3 dozen squares.
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