Pumpkin Spice Fudge Recipe
Here’s a great fudge recipe for the holiday season!
This fudge tastes like caramel with a hint of pumpkin spice flavor – the texture comes out very smooth and creamy (not grainy at all) and the nuts add a great crunch.
Hip tips for making Pumpkin Spice Fudge:
- Buy a candy thermometer! They’re a handy, inexpensive tool to have around the kitchen, and using one is so much easier than trying to guess when your candy has reached the soft-ball stage.
- I used a non-stick cookie sheet with a lip and buttered it so there was no sticking.
- I added the nuts to the top after pouring the mixture into the pan because I thought it looked prettier, but you could mix them in the pot at the end—it’s up to you!
Pumpkin Spice Fudge Recipe
yield: 60 SERVINGS
prep time: 15 MINUTES
cook time: 20 MINUTES
total time: 35 MINUTES
Create these delicious pumpkin spice fudge treats for your next family gathering.
Ingredients
- 2 c. sugar
- 1 c. brown sugar, packed
- 3/4 c. butter (no substitutions)
- 2/3 c. evaporated milk
- 1/2 c. pumpkin puree
- 1 1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
- 1 (12 oz.) pkg. white chocolate chips
- 1 (7 oz.) jar marshmallow creme
- 1 c. chopped pecans or macadamia nuts (optional)
- 1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract
Directions
1
Butter a 9 x 13 baking dish.
2
Combine the first 6 ingredients in a heavy saucepan: cook over medium heat until the sugars dissolve, then continue cooking until the mixture begins to boil, stirring constantly.
3
Boil until the candy thermometer reaches the the soft-ball stage between 234 ~ 243 degrees. This takes about 18 minutes.
4
Remove from heat, stir in the white chips until they are all melted and mixture is smooth.
5
Add the remaining ingredients, mix well. Pour into prepared pan, and cool to room temperature.
6
Cut into squares, store refrigerated in an airtight container. Makes approx. 60 pieces.
My kids don’t like nuts so I left them out of half the batch. I thought it would be cute to cut out pumpkin shapes with a small cookie cutter. They loved it!
And since I didn’t need a whole pan of fudge sitting in my kitchen, we shared with neighbors and my kid’s teachers. Great little gift idea!
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very tasty:)
Thanks so much for sharing! This will be perfect as a fall treat for my family!
Looks yummy ! Have to try these.
Thanks for sharing!! Gonna make it tom with my daughter and use ur idea of the cookie cutter to make it more fun for her!! 🙂
K Ladies .its the 1 who is not that gr8@ these new recipes..i hav a question… which butter kind do u use?… w salt?…w/o salt???Tia..cuz these look sooooooo yummy..
I always use non-salted butter unless a recipe specifically calls for salted butter. However, you can really use which ever one! My mom only cooks with salted butter, regardless of what she is cooking and you really can’t taste the difference.
non-salted…haha…I meant unsalted! 🙂
Absolutely use unsalted butter. If you feel like a Recipe is needing salt it’s easy to put in a pinch of it. Can’t take salt out 😊
I once substituted the evaporated milk in pumpkin pie with coconut milk. I wonder if it would work in this recipe as well ?!?
My mouth is watering! What amazing pictures and creativity too! I’m just wishing I was lucky enough to be one of your neighbors!!
Going to try this, I make Scottish tablet all the time which is really hard to make and im am Scottish lol, this looks just as good and seems a lot easier to make. Thanks Colin
It would be really cute to draw jack-o-lantern faces on the cut outs with homemade frosting! Either chocolate or vanilla-yummy!
Thanks so much, Lina. Looks so yummy, and no soft boil/hard boil stage. I love your recipes because they are straight-forward easy to make and understand, yet are lovely to look at, and wonderful to the taste buds! Appreciate you!