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Peanut Butter Fudge Not Hardening?

December 21, 2007

How can I salvage Peanut Butter Fudge that has not hardened?

Tammy from Salyersville

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December 21, 20070 found this helpful

Save the fudge and don't throw it out like I did several years ago. I made two batches and both didn't harden, so not thinking I threw it away in the garbage. Save the fudge which is like frosting and use it to frost some homemade brownies.

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December 21, 20071 found this helpful

When candy doesn't harden I've never found any way to make it right. Use it as icing or a topping for ice cream or cake.

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December 21, 20070 found this helpful

Try heating it slightly & and adding a little more powered sugar.

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December 21, 20071 found this helpful

Put it back in the pan and cook it longer. It has ALWAYS worked for me.

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By Linda (Guest Post)
December 21, 20071 found this helpful

Bottle in a pretty jar, tie on an ice cream scoop and gift it as peanut butter fudge ice cream topping!

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By suzin (Guest Post)
December 21, 20070 found this helpful

I have a fudge recipe that does not require cooking. It has peanut butter in it. It calls for powdered sugar. Perhaps you could add some powdered/confectioners sugar in it.

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Work it a bit and maybe that would do it. But I have never tried this.

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December 21, 20070 found this helpful

Try putting some in the freezer, it may harden enough and could be eaten cold.

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December 21, 20070 found this helpful

This one will hardened.

BIG BACH PEANUT BUTTER FUDGE
INGREDIENTS

2 LB. skippy supper chunky peanut butter
4 cup sugar1
1/3 cups can milk
1 JAR cup marshmallow cream
24 OZ cocktail peanuts w/oil ( not dry roasted)
2 TSP vanilla

INSTRUCTIONS

cook milk, sugar to soft ball stage add remaining instructions beat till mixed pour into buttered 9X13X2 pan.

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December 22, 20071 found this helpful

This very same thing happened to me last night. It sure is frustrating!! I cleaned out the jar from the marshmallow cream I had used in the recipe and poured the fudge into it to use as ice cream topping and put it in the rerigerator. I had put it back on the stove and tried to cook it a little longer but it started to get little hard bits in it.

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Anyway, I noticed that after awhile it did get harder. I decided to make a new batch and this time once it came to a hard boil I set the kitchen time for exactly five minutes and stirred the whole time-it came out perfect. Good luck!

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December 22, 20071 found this helpful

Roll it into balls, refrigerate until cold, and dip in melted chocolate. YUM

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December 23, 20073 found this helpful

I had a similar experience today. I have never made fudge until today, and I wanted to use an old fashioned Hershey's original fudge recipe - without marshmallow in it and without using any shortcuts. Just sugar, whole milk, butter, vanilla and cocoa. Of course, it was a damp & rainy evening - I'm always up for a challenge lol... Now since the fudge I made was cocoa based, not peanut butter I don't know if that would make a difference. Anyway, I had let it go slightly above the soft ball stage the recipe called for, but once I went to whip it it was not getting thick. Not knowing exactly what it was supposed to look like, I poured it in the pan anyway and then found that it just would not set. I even tried to set it in the freezer and when that did nothing, I took it straight from the freezer, scraped it back into a pot - this time a smaller pot than before - and brought it back up to a boil - yes, I did this even though the nuts and the vanilla had already been added.

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This time, I brought it to just under hard ball stage and then instead of cooling it in the pot it cooked in, I poured it out of the pot onto a big cookie sheet that I had placed on a cooling rack which was on top of a towel to protect my countertop. I did not wait for it to cool - I immediately starting pushing it around and back and forth on the sheet using a wooden spatula until it began to thicken nicely. I poured it into the buttered 8 x 8 pan and it began to set immediately. It turned out great - so, though this may not be timely to help you, if anyone runs across this problem, well, don't give up!

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December 23, 20070 found this helpful

Refrigerate it. Might help.
Or use my mother's old trick and incorporate it into something else as a filling, topping or base.

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December 23, 20070 found this helpful

I make alot of 'Old Fashioned Peanut Butter Fudge' this time of year. I love the idea of rolling it into balls and coating in pwd. sugar or cocoa powder (truffles). Going to use that one!

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when mine don't turn out we jokinly call it 'Spoon fudge' and eat it off the cookie sheet!
I have found using a candy thermometer helps alot.

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By Patsy (Guest Post)
December 14, 20080 found this helpful

How do I fix my fudge that crumbled?

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August 1, 20170 found this helpful

I just had this happen to me but I didn't want to just throw it away so I mixed in a block of cream cheese, skinned, chopped, and mixed in a bag of apples, and then I topped it with a half a bag of miniature dark chocolate chips. Made a delicious apple salad for dessert.

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October 24, 20171 found this helpful

That was a pretty dumb reply to this post. If it wont get hard how the heck do you roll it up! O.o

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Anonymous
December 12, 20170 found this helpful

Freeze it??

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February 6, 20180 found this helpful

More peanut butter

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September 5, 20180 found this helpful

Most the time it his sticky and thick so you can roll into a ball, It just doesn't harden.

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November 26, 20180 found this helpful

Mine to did this and i melted chocolate and used filling for mini peanut butter cups. Perfect and yummy.

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December 16, 20180 found this helpful

how do i get peanut butter fuge to harden. where is the answer to this question

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December 17, 2012

I made peanut butter fudge. It came out very gooey. I tried a piece and it tastes fabuloso, but where I cut a little piece has filled in so it's supper soft. Can I save it?

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August 31, 20170 found this helpful

Try heating the fudge just a little in a microwave, then stir in some powdered sugar and a little melted butter. It should harden up after it cools.

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