Difference between chocolate fudge recipes with marshmallow fluff rather than with corn syrup?

Question

What is the difference between chocolate fudge recipes that tell you to add marshmallow fluff, and recipes that tell you to add corn syrup instead? if you have had both, which one is better? are there any recipes on the internet that you have tried and have found to be very good, creamy, rich, smooth and chocolaty? thanks!

Answer 1

I like the marshmellow ones...they are smooth and creamy and much easier....usually corn syrup has to be cooked to a certain stage....marshmellow is just melted and stirred in. Look for the ones that have evaperated milk, marshmellow, and chocolate chips...they turn out every time....

Also my daughter does a rocky road candy in the microwave that people always love....and it is just chips, marshmellows and nuts mixed together and dropped onto buttered sheets.....she give them for Christmas gifts.

Try: 10 Large Marshmellow or 4 cups small marshmellows
3//4 cup evaporated milk
1/4 cup butter or margerine
1 1/2 cus sugar
1/4 t. salt
2 cups semi-sweet choc. chips
1/2 t. vanilla
1/2 cups nuts(optional)

Combine marshmellows,milk,butter,sugar,salt in a saice [am.
Cook and stir over med. heat until full boil. Boil for 5 minutes
Stirring constantly. Remove from heat, add chocolate chips and beat until the chips melt. Add vanilla and nuts.(Can substitute marshmellow cream for the marshmellows)

If making rocky road fudge this way, add extra marshmellows and extra nuts before pouring into pan

This fudge never fails....at least it never has for me.

Answer 2

Oh dear god leave the corn syrup out! Go for the recipe on the marshmallow fluff package! It's foolproof! I've been making that recipe since I was a kid cooking with my mother, now I make it with my kids. Sometimes I pour a thin layer of the fudge into a pan, put teeny tiny semi sweet chips on top of that and then cover it up with more fudge. Mmmm yummy

Answer 3

I agree that the marshmallow recipes turn out more consistently, but I prefer the corn syrup recipe. It seems creamier to me. I actually tried the simplest recipe this Christmas, recommended by a friend. You melt a 12 oz. bag of semisweet chips and mix in a container of fudge frosting; I always make homemade fudge and thought this would never turn out, but it was so good! I lightly buttered a glass dish and poured it in, and it set up as soon as it cooled. I tried it later with a whipped frosting, and it didn't do as well. Good luck!

Answer 4

I have found that the marshmallow variety is more predictable. There is a chance, especially without an accurate thermometer, that the corn syrup method might give you either a liquid mass that never sets up, or else a concrete-like hard result.