Easy Salted Caramel Fudge Recipe | The Best Salty Sweet

Enjoy every bite of this easy salted caramel fudge recipe. There is just something special about eating homemade fudge. With this quick and easy recipe, it is easier to make the fudge at home than to run to the store to purchase it. This post is all about easy salted caramel fudge.

This fudge has to be my favorite caramel recipe I’ve shared on the blog so far. I love it so much. If you have ever read my about page, you’ll know that I absolutely love anything with caramel. There is just something about the taste that is so amazing.

I would consider these little caramel fudge squares and a great show to be an evening in paradise. I hope that when you make this recipe that you feel the same way. The fudge is just so sweet and quite the decadent treat.

Plus, you can make this fudge as an easy DIY gift idea as well. All will love receiving a box of this sweet and salty goodness.

This post is all about easy salted caramel fudge.

Easy Salted Caramel Fudge

Step 1: Prep the Dish

To make sure that your fudge comes out just right, put parchment paper into an 8×8 baking dish. It ensures that the fudge will easily be able to come right out of the container.

I absolutely hate when something that I make gets stuck in a dish, and with this paper, that doesn’t happen.

Step 2: Start with the Butter

Once you have your dish prepared, you can add one stick of butter to a medium-sized pot. You can slice up the stick of butter to make it easier to melt. Put it over medium to low heat.

I used salted butter, but you can use unsalted as well. Personally, I just always buy salted butter, so that is the only thing I ever use in all my recipes.

Easy Salted Caramel Fudge

Step 3: Add the Milk

Then add in a can of sweetened condensed milk. The can is fourteen ounces. Be sure that you grab the right type of milk because once I tried to make this recipe with evaporated milk and it was more like a syrup than a fudge.

According to Fine Cooking, they state that “Due to its high sugar content, the primary use for condensed milk is in sweets. Bakers find it especially useful in candy and fudge since the sugar has already been boiled down into a syrup, meaning fewer problems with crystallization.”

Therefore, if you use another type of milk to make fudge, you won’t end up with the same consistency at all. There just isn’t enough sugar in the other options.

Step 4: Add the Brown Sugar

Then, add a cup of brown sugar to the mix. I used light brown sugar, but really dark would work just as well. Don’t purchase one over the other if you have some brown sugar on hand already.

Easy Salted Caramel Fudge

Step 5: The Corn Syrup

Then, add two tablespoons of corn syrup into the pot. For this recipe, I used two tablespoons of Karo light corn syrup.

Before you make the recipe, make sure that you have corn syrup because this fudge just doesn’t turn out the same with any substitutes.

Step 6: Simmer the Mixture

Within 8-10 minutes, this mixture should simmer perfectly. Be sure to stir this mix consistently.

According to Ricardo Cuisine, “confectionery experiments have shown that the ideal cooking temperature for fudge is around 114 to 115 °C (237 to 239 °F).  The cooking should evaporate a part of the liquid and concentrate the sugar. The temperature of the cream/sugar mixture (called syrup) rises as water evaporates. At a cooking temperature of  114 to 115 °C (237 to 239 °F), there is just enough water left in the syrup to ensure it is not too hard or too soft.”

If you want to make sure that your fudge reaches the perfect temperature, just stick a thermometer in to double-check.

Easy Salted Caramel Fudge

Step 7: Add the Baking Chips

Then, once you mixed the ingredients at the right temperature, add a cup of white baking chips to the pot.

Turn off the burner before you add the baking chips. Next, add in one cup of white baking chips. Continue to stir the chips until they are all melted.

Step 8: Pour into Dish

Then, pour the sweet mixture for salted caramel fudge right into the baking dish.

Be sure to even out the dish as much as possible. I know that this is a little harder with the parchment paper.

Step 9: Salt & Refrigerate the Fudge

Next, sprinkle some sea salt on top of the fresh fudge recipe.

I don’t know about you, but I love the combination of salt and caramels. It is the perfect salty, sweet combo.

Then you can refrigerate the fudge for at least four hours to ensure that it forms just right.

Printable for Easy Salted Caramel Fudge

Just a reminder to make sure that you get sweetened condensed milk and not evaporated milk at the store. Click on the photo to get a free printable with the ingredient list.

Enjoy the baking process, and if you want to make more, just grab double the ingredients. You may just want to go ahead and double up on these ingredients as you will use this recipe as a go-to. Plus, fudge makes for a great DIY gift idea too.

The Best Fudge Ever

Now that you have created this heavenly fudge, enjoy these little joyful squares.

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