When is fudge called butter tablet? No idea, but this Ballymaloe fudge has become a firm favourite. Slightly more crystalline than the smooth fudge you get commercially, it has a deep brown sugar flavour, a snow-like juddering melt, rich with butter and heady with vanilla. It keeps well in an airtight container in the fridge and is perfect to give as a gift. It even converted a fudge refuser into a fan. That can’t be bad.
My Mum would commit murder to get her hands on this fudge. Worth knowing in case you need someone dispatched.
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I wanted a quick, easy recipe that used blueberries; something that wasn’t groaning with icings or glazes and wasn’t bettered with a dollop of cream. A real old fashioned afternoon tea bite for kids and adults alike.
This is it. Fling your ingredients in a bowl, clatter round it with an electric hand whisk, stir in the fruit then dollop into a muffin tin and remove, bronzed and perky (the buns too) to be inhaled and devoured gleefully. Soft, vanilla-y, blueberried and sweet. Yum.
5 mins to weigh the ingredients, 5 mins to mix and portion out and 20 mins in the oven. Perfick.
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