Peanut butter and lemon fudge
I have no idea how long this will keep, as it never lasts longer than a day. Peanut butter and lemon makes great candy.
Servings: 10
Preparation Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Ingredients
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 tblsp light corn oil
- 1/2 cup yogurt
- 1/4 cup water
- 1/4 cup peanut butter
- 1 cup chopped walnuts
- 1 tsp grated lemon peel
- 1 1/2 tsp vanilla
Steps
- Mix the yogurt and water together until smooth.
- Mix the sugar, oil, and yogurt mixture into a deep sauce pan
- Bring to a boil over medium heat, stirring often.
- Cover and let boil two to three minutes.
- Uncover and continue boiling to 240 degrees.
- Move to cooling rack and let cool to 150 degrees.
- Mix in peanut butter, walnuts, lemon peel, and vanilla.
- Pour into greased 8x8-inch pan and let cool.
- Cut into 1-inch squares.
I made this recipe up as a whim, to try something different with fudge. I’ve never had any fudge like this; it is everything that a fudge should be: very sweet, creamy, crunchy, and slightly tart.
Cut it into 8x8 for sixty-four 1-inch squares. Cut down the center, then down the center of each side, and then down the center of each of those again, to get eight partitions.
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