Red White and Blue Vanilla Fudge
Turn easy vanilla fudge into a star spangled sweet with one of our favorite easy 4th of July dessert recipes!
Servings: 64
Ingredients
- 8 Ounces cream cheese, softened
- 4 cups
Wilton candy melts in white or vanilla baking chips - 12 ounces Coconut Oil
- 2 tsp Vanilla
- 2 tsp Color Gels in Blue and Red
Instructions
- Line an 8x8 baking pan with aluminum foil.
- Using a mixer, beat cream cheese until smooth. Probably 1 minute longer than you think.
- Add powdered sugar and beat well.
- Now get ready! Get your gel color onto the knives. Get your two bowls to mix color ready. Get an additional knife for swirling.
- In a saucepan and on low, melt candy melts and coconut oil as you stir constantly. Remove from heat and stir in vanilla.
- Mix with cream cheese mixture.
- Pour 1/3 of the melted candy into your prepared pan and 1/3 into the two bowls. Add red and blue color gels and mix well.
- Dollop colors onto the white fudge in the pan and use a clean knife to swirl the colors together.
- Refrigerate for 4 hours. Remove from pan and remove foil from fudge. Cut into squares.
Makes 64 1" squares.
Notes
You can made this both ways - heating candy melts in the microwave and on the stove. What usually happens with the microwave method, is that the mix of cream cheese and melted candy turns into dough and is not smooth. If that happens, simply microwave the mix in 15 second intervals, stirring after each trip to the microwave until it is smooth.