I kept busting out random giggles every few minutes, and Eric kept saying, “It’s really NOT that funny.” But it is. It was. It looked like a murder scene. He’s almost here! Christmas is next week and this baby is due tomorrow. Hopefully in my next post I’ll be able to include some pictures of our baby boy! Shattered glass and bright red nail polish, all over our vanity, the wall, the floor, Eric’s pajamas, my charging phone. It fell from the cabinet where I had put it last night after touching up my manicure, right in front of the ibuprofen. Where it definitely does not belong. Forty five minutes of scrubbing and lots of bleach later, our bathroom is mostly back to normal. I feel like this is the kind of accident where 6 months from now I will notice a random drop of red on the ceiling or in some other corner. Also, you would be amazed how little scrubbing it takes to go from zero to “we were going to remodel this bathroom anyway, right??” Haha! I’m glad we got it mostly back to normal so that we don’t have to deal with a bathroom reno and a new baby at the same time! Facebook | Pinterest | Instagram My mom’s recipe is based off of the fantasy fudge recipe that used to be printed on the marshmallow fluff jar (I don’t know if it still is?). She made a couple changes to it. I had no idea until I posted the recipe on the blog that it was the recipe on the jar! I call it My Mom’s Fudge because that’s what it is: the fudge that we made every Christmas for every neighbor on our block for as long as I’ve been alive. I made this recipe once with Ghirardelli white chocolate chips (no cocoa butter! come on Ghir!), once with a cheap brand of almond bark (no cocoa butter, no surprise), and a third time with chopped Ghirardelli white chocolate baking bars, which has cocoa butter listed as the second ingredient. The batch with the real white chocolate was WAY better tasting, obviously. But if you are penny pinching, you can totally make this recipe with fake white chocolate. The fudge turned out fine on all 3 versions. But real white chocolate just tastes better. If you want to read more about all the fake white chocolate out there and read about the best kind to buy, check out this Serious Eats article. Bottom line: if there is cocoa butter in the ingredients, then it’s real white chocolate, and it’s going to taste 10x better. 2 – Here’s what a ROLLING boil looks like. Do not start your 5 minute timer until there are bubbles ALL the way across the top of the mixture. It will start bubbling on the edges first. That doesn’t count. 3 – Once the 5 minute timer goes off, add all your chopped white chocolate and stir until there are no lumps. Work quickly! 4 – Here’s how your marshmallow creme looks coming out of the microwave. I heat it until it starts rising above the lid of the jar. This is my favorite hack for making fudge. It makes it so easy to scoop out. Totally unnecessary, just makes it easier. 5 – The fudge looks like it has lumps, but those are actually air bubbles. The fudge turns out smoother and creamier than you can imagine! I love to line my pan with parchment paper to make it really easy to lift out and slice. And then proceed to eat an entire row single handedly. (oops.) This is my last post before Christmas! Merry Christmas to all, thank you so much for being a part of my blog!
