Cardamon Chocolate Fudge

I’ve been asked to go on to Gill Gauntlett’s show, The House that Gill Builts, on Three Counties Radio on Sunday (Mother’s Day – just in case anyone had forgotton) from 3-5pm just in case you want to listen. Anyway we’re going to be testing victoria sponge cakes and I’ve been experimenting with different fudge flavourings. We have developed this fab cheat’s chocolate fudge recipe, well two actually, one for dark chocolate and one for white chocolate, they’re great for children to make as they involve absolutely no boiling sugar so are much safer to make than normal fudge.

Anyway, Alison and I were playing around with different flavourings for a Great Food Live show which has been rescheduled and rather than doing the plain fudge we thought we’d try adding to it, so what did we have in the kitchen…….

Orange – grated rind of an orange – fabulous in the white chocolate, OK in the dark

Chilli – need to keep experimenting with this as the chilli powder made the fudge taste a little like chilli con carne – not the desired effect so we’ve got some cayenne pepper to try again with.

Chilli chocolate flakes – I have these on my coffee in the morning and they are fantastic, goes a little way to stop small children pinching all the chocolate froth off the top, it really does help wake you up – well, this is great to roll the choclate fudge in to get that chilli bite.

Cardamon – THE BEST – this was absolutely fabulous in the dark chocolate, totally goes down as my favourite.

Marbelling – kneading the white and dark together gave a really cool effect.

Glitter – well this looked fantastic, but glitter always does.

Silicone ice cube tray moulds – the heart ones worked really well but other more fiddly shapes were awful and you couldn’t get the fudge out in one piece, so sad, had to eat it.

Still got to try stem ginger and fresh mint leaves, but this is ready for Sunday so guess what we’re doing tomorrow? I love this job.