This is my great-grandmother's Peanut Butter Fudge recipe. She would make batches around Christmas and hand them out to the family.
Ingredients
¼ cup Unsalted Butter
½ cup Light Corn Syrup (or Maple Syrup)
1 tsp Vanilla Extract
1 tbs Water
½ cup Creamy Peanut Butter
1 lb Powder Sugar
⅓ cup instant Non-Fat Dry Milk
Instructions
Melt butter, syrup and peanut butter in a sauce pan on low heat.
Meanwhile, sift powdered sugar and powdered milk together in a mixing bowl and set aside.
Add vanilla and water to the syrup mixture, stirring as needed.
Once the liquids are melted and mixed together in the sauce pan you can start adding the dry ingredients. Add half the mixture and incorporate until almost smooth, then add the remainder. It will get very thick as you mix (I use a whisk) but keep stirring until the mixture is silky smooth.
Lay parchment paper in a small baking pan so that it covers the bottom and comes up all sides.
Pour fudge onto the parchment paper and let chill (at room temp or in the fridge if you're impatient).
Cut into bite sized pieces and serve.
Notes
I like to substitute organic maple syrup for light corn syrup in most recipes. In this recipe it's a bonus because you get Maple Peanut Butter Fudge which is amazing.
Using the parchment paper in the bottom of the baking dish makes it easy to remove for cutting. Simply grab the edges of the parchment and lift the whole chunk of fudge out of the pan and place on a cutting board. Now cutting those bite sized pieces is super easy.
Recipe by plenty of snacks... at http://plentyofsnacks.com/grandma-killens-peanut-butter-fudge/