Five Minute Fudge Wreath Recipes

5-MINUTE FUDGE WREATH

Steps:

• Grease a 8-9 inch cake pan
• Add all chips, milk, vanilla to large heavy pot over low heat, melt, add currants and walnuts
• Wrap the empty condensed milk can with plastic and place center of pan, fill pan with fudge
• Do not smooth the top - let the wreath be bumpy and irregular in surface
• Decorate with cut red and green cherries to look like holly bunches and chill
• Remove from pan, remove can, platter and serve in very thin slices

FIVE-MINUTE FUDGE WREATHS

Steps:

• Butter an 8-inch round cake pan with softened butter.
• Pour the chocolate and butterscotch chips, condensed milk and vanilla into a medium saucepan. Put the pan on the stove and turn the heat to low.
• Cover the empty condensed milk can with plastic wrap and put it in the center of the round cake pan.
• Stir the chips and milk until they melt together, about 3 minutes. (Make sure fudge is warm, smooth and shiny--warm enough that it won't set up instantly when you stir in the cooler nuts and raisins). Stir in nuts and raisins. Scoop the fudge into the cake pan all around the plastic-covered can in the center to form a wreath or ring shape. Let it be all bumpy on top. If the fudge moves the can off center, move it back in place.
• Cut the red cherries in half with scissors and the green cherries into quarters. Use the green pieces to make leaves and the red to make holly berries. Decorate the fudge with several groups of holly berry sprigs made from the cherries and garnish with walnuts between the sprigs.
• Put the fudge in the refrigerator and chill until firm (about a half hour). Remove the can from the center, then loosen the sides and bottom of the fudge with a spatula. Cut the fudge into thin slices to serve.

FIVE-MINUTE FUDGE WREATH

Steps:

• Place a heavy pot on the stove and preheat it over low heat. Add chips and milk and stir until chips are melted and milk combined. Save the empty condensed milk can. Stir in vanilla and remove fudge from heat. Add nuts and currants and stir in immediately.
• Cover empty condensed milk can with plastic food wrap and center it in the greased cake pan. Spoon fudge into pan around can, making sure to recenter can if it drifts.
• The fudge will set up almost immediately. Garnish can only be added in the first minute or 2 the fudge is in the pan, so work quickly. Decorate your wreath with "holly" made from cut candied red and green cherries. A wreath left plain can be garnished with a pretty fabric bow when serving. Chill covered in the refrigerator and slice fudge very thin when ready to serve, a little goes a long way.

FIVE-MINUTE FUDGE WREATH

Steps:

• 1. Place a heavy pot on the stove and heat over low heat, and add your sweetened condensed milk(save your empty milk can)add your chips and stir until combined. Add your nuts and raisins and stir in your tsp. of vanilla and remove fudge from heat.
• 2. Line a 8 inch or 9 inch cake pan with plastic wrap, and give it a light coat of cooking spray. Cover the empty milk container with plastic wrap and place in center of cake pan.
• 3. Spoon fudge into pan
• 4. Chill covered with more plastic wrap in the refrigerator.
• 5. After fudge is fully set, remove from pan, discard empty can and plastic wrap and place on plate.
• 6. Store covered in cool place

FIVE MINUTE GOOBER AND RAISINETTE FUDGE WREATH - RACHAEL RAY

Steps:

• Pour the chips, condensed milk and vanilla into a medium saucepan. Put the pan on the stove and turn the heat to low. (Stir occasionally while you prepare pan).
• Butter an 8-inch round cake pan with softened butter. (I found it easier to remove from the pan if you lined bottom with parchment paper and buttered the sides).
• Cover the empty condensed milk can with plastic wrap and put it in the center of the round cake pan.
• Stir the chips and milk until they melt together, about 3 minutes. (Make sure fudge is warm, smooth and shiny--warm enough that it won't set up instantly when you stir in the cooler nuts and raisins). Stir in peanuts and raisins. Scoop the fudge into the cake pan all around the plastic-covered can in the center to form a wreath or ring shape. Let it be all bumpy on top. If the fudge moves the can off center, move it back in place.
• Cut the red cherries in half with scissors and the green cherries into quarters. Use the green pieces to make leaves and the red to make holly berries. Decorate the fudge with several groups of holly berry sprigs made from the cherries and garnish with peanuts between the sprigs.
• Put the fudge in the refrigerator and chill until firm (about a half hour). Remove the can from the center, then loosen the sides and bottom of the fudge with a spatula (you won't need to do this if you took my advice about the parchment paper!). Cut the fudge into thin slices to serve.