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If you have a sweet tooth, you know that satisfying it is a Sisyphean task. As soon as you've finished one bag of Milano cookies or a pint of Ben and Jerry's , you're on to the next. While these store-bought treats are certainly delicious, making your own desserts can be much tastier, and isn't near as hard as you may think.

One of the best and, it so happens, one of the easiest desserts you can make at home is vanilla fudge. All you need to do is mix 14 ounces of condensed milk with 12 ounces of melted white chocolate chips, put it in a pan, and allow it to harden in the refrigerator. You can use whatever condensed milk you like, though it may be worth using fat-free since white chocolate contains a lot of fat.



As for the white chocolate chips, you should use the best possible quality you can get, with the best white chocolates having a clean, slightly sweet, and milky flavor with light notes of cocoa and vanilla. Cheaper chocolates rely too heavily on sugar and added flavors, including stronger notes of vanilla that can make your two-ingredient fudge taste cloying rather than divine. How to upgrade your 2 ingredient vanilla fudge If you prefer more complex desserts, don't fret.

There are plenty of ways to upgrade your two-ingredient fudge. The simplest upgrade is to split your condensed milk into two parts, mixing white chocolate into one part and milk or dark chocolate into the other, then loosely combining them to make streaky fudge or layering them together for a tiered .

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