{"id":161,"date":"2007-12-02T07:18:16","date_gmt":"2007-12-02T12:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.wordpress.com\/2007\/12\/02\/peanut-butter-fudge\/"},"modified":"2009-12-01T14:31:49","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T19:31:49","slug":"peanut-butter-fudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/02\/peanut-butter-fudge\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanut Butter Fudge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Peanut Butter Fudge<\/p>\n<p>3 Cups Sugar<br \/>\n3\/4 Cup Butter<br \/>\n1\/2 Cup Evaporated Milk<br \/>\n1 Cup Peanut Butter (Crunchy is optional)<br \/>\n10 Oz Marshmallow Cream<br \/>\n1 Tablespoon Vanilla<\/p>\n<p>Grease an 8&#215;8 baking dish<\/p>\n<p>In a large mixing bowl, put peanut butter, marshmello cream and vanilla.\u00a0 Set aside.<\/p>\n<p>Put sugar, butter and milk in a pan and turn heat to high, stiring constantly.\u00a0 Once at a full boil (bubbles in from outside edges to center for 1 minute), turn heat to simmer (keeping bubbles going lightly) and cook for 5-6 minutes.\u00a0 If using a candy therm, heat to soft ball stage (240F).<\/p>\n<p>Once time is up, pour over peanut butter, marshmello cream and vanilla,\u00a0 stiring quickly to mix well.\u00a0 Once well mixed, pour into your pre-greased 8&#215;8 pan.\u00a0 Sprinkle with salted peanuts and allow to cool before cutting.<\/p>\n<p>Optional:<\/p>\n<p>Use &#8216;chunky&#8217; peanut butter<\/p>\n<p>Mix in 1\/3 cup peanuts<\/p>\n<p><strong>Variation:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge:<br \/>\nMake a batch of regular chocolate fudge, using two 8&#215;8 pans, pouring half of the fudge into each pan, sprinkle with peanuts.\u00a0 Allow to cool.\u00a0 Make a batch of this peanut butter fudge and pour half over each chocolate fudge.\u00a0 Allow to cool.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This recipe does not work well with &#8216;organic&#8217; or &#8216;natural&#8217; peanut butters unless well mixed.\u00a0 I just end up using &#8216;Jif&#8217; or &#8216;Skippy&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><em>* Marshmello cream seems to come in 7oz or 16oz containers.\u00a0 I usually weigh the cream on a scale.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peanut Butter Fudge 3 Cups Sugar 3\/4 Cup Butter 1\/2 Cup Evaporated Milk 1 Cup Peanut Butter (Crunchy is optional) 10 Oz Marshmallow Cream 1 Tablespoon Vanilla Grease an 8&#215;8 baking dish In a large mixing bowl, put peanut butter, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2007\/12\/02\/peanut-butter-fudge\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[486,487,171,492,268,270],"class_list":["post-161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas","category-desserts","tag-christmas","tag-desserts","tag-fudge","tag-holiday","tag-peanut-butter","tag-peanut-butter-fudge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161\/revisions\/964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}