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Cranberry White Chocolate Fudge

Created: November 20, 2019 Updated: December 10, 2021 by lyuba 32 Comments

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Easy White Chocolate Fudge with Cranberry Jam swirl is a perfect holiday treat. This fudge is smooth and creamy with a wonderful flavor contrast of sweet chocolate and sour cranberries. Cranberry jam is a perfect balance to sweet chocolate.

Grab the recipe for Homemade Cranberry Jam and use it in your holiday baking or simply spread it on the toast. Try this jam with milk chocolate fudge as well.

Cranberry White Chocolate Fudge

WHITE CHOCOLATE FUDGE

I have a confession to make, I love white chocolate even more than milk chocolate. True chocolate lovers are probably rolling their eyes, saying that white chocolate is not even chocolate but, I can’t help it. It delicious, creamy, and a great treat no matter the amount of cacao in it. 

So for all of my fellow white chocolate fans, this is a amazing white chocolate fudge recipe. It’s a perfect holiday treat to share with family and friends. This fudge also makes a great holiday food gift. The combination of sweet white chocolate with cranberry jam that’s a little tart and sour is very pleasant. The sourness in the jam actually keep this fudge from being too sweet by balancing the flavors. 

It’s very easy to make cranberry jam right for the recipe or ahead of time. You can find many uses for the jam so feel free to make the whole batch and use some for the fudge and keep the rest in the fridge. Leftover jam will also be great as a gift. Simply portion it into smaller mason jar and tie a pretty ribbon around it. 

You can make a smaller amount of jam just for the fudge as well. I just cut the recipe is half but there will still be a little jam leftover. 

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ingredients for cranberry white chocolate fudge

HOW TO MAKE CRANBERRY JAM

NOTE: If you make jam ahead of time, you will need to warm it up for the fudge. Jam swirls much better into the fudge when it is warm. 

Combine all ingredients for the jam in a bottom-heavy sauce pot, mix, and bring it to simmer over medium heat. Reduce heat to low, cover with a lid, and simmer, stirring frequently, for about an hour. Keep covered while simmering, leaving only a little crack for the steam to escape. Stir from time to time.

Transfer into a blender and puree until smooth. Use warm jam for the fudge and transfer remaining jam into a glass jar. Once fudge is completely cooled, close with a lid tight and refrigerate.

pouring hot sweetened condensed milk into chocolate

HOW TO MAKE WHITE CHOCOLATE FUDGE

Line an 8×8 baking dish with parchment paper, make sure the sheet or paper is big enough to cover bottom and up the sides. Rub the parchment paper generously with butter. (If you do not wish to use butter, you can spray parchment paper with non-stick oil spray.)

Place white chocolate chips and marshmallow fluff into a mixing bowl. 

Bring sweetened condensed milk and vanilla to simmer in a bottom-heavy sauce pot. Pour hot sweetened condensed milk into the mixing bowl with chocolate chips and marshmallow fluff and start stirring. Keep stirring until everything is mixed and smooth. 

NOTE: sweetened condensed milk should be scalding hot to melt all the chocolate chips, so do wait until it starts to simmer and pour it into the bowl with chocolate right away. 

Pour chocolate mixture into the prepared baking dish and spread it evenly. Drop a few spoonfuls of warm cranberry jam on top of fudge and gently swirl it with fudge using a thin spatula (or the other end of the spatula.)

Let fudge cool down to room temperature and then, cover the dish with plastic wrap and place in the refrigerator to set.

cranberry jam drops in white chocolate fudge

HOW TO STORE FUDGE

Fudge can be stored at room temperature, in the refrigerator, or frozen. Since this fudge has jam made out or fresh cranberries incorporated, it’s best kept refrigerated. Even though the berries are cooked with sugar, it still does have a high chance of soiling due to introduction of bacteria when kept at room temperate. 

Stored in the refrigerator, this fudge will last 10-12 days. Make sure to keep it covered air-tight. 

You can also freeze fudge either in one big block or in individual squares. Make sure the fudge has been chilled and set in the refrigerator first and wrap either the whole block of fudge or each square in plastic wrap. Place wrapped fudge into a freezer zip-lock bag, get the air out, seal and place in the freezer. 

In the freezer, fudge will last for 2-3 months. 

white chocolate fudge with cranberry swirl

MORE RECIPES TO TRY

Peppermint White Chocolate Fudge

Double Chocolate Peppermint Fudge Truffles

White Chocolate Peppermint Marshmallow Fluff

Christmas Cheesecake

Butterfinger Fudge

Copycat See’s Candy Fudge

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Cranberry White Chocolate Fudge

Smooth and creamy white chocolate fudge swirled with homemade cranberry jam.
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: cranberry, fudge, jam, white chocolate
Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 6 minutes
Chill time:: 6 hours
Total Time: 6 hours 21 minutes
Servings: 9
Calories: 564kcal
Author: Lyuba Brooke

Ingredients

  • 3 cups white chocolate chips
  • 7 oz marshmallow fluff
  • 14 oz sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/2 cup Cranberry jam warm
  • 1-2 tbsp unsalted butter to rub the pan (*optional)
  • 1 tsp vanilla
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Instructions

  • Line an 8×8 baking dish with parchment paper, make sure the sheet or paper is big enough to cover bottom and up the sides. Rub the parchment paper generously with butter. (If you do not wish to use butter, you can spray parchment paper with non-stick oil spray.)
  • Place white chocolate chips and marshmallow fluff into a mixing bowl. 
  • Bring sweetened condensed milk and vanilla to simmer in a bottom-heavy sauce pot. (Make sure it does start to simmer before adding it to the bowl.)
  • Pour hot sweetened condensed milk into the mixing bowl with chocolate chips and marshmallow fluff and start stirring. Keep stirring until everything is mixed and smooth. 
  • Pour chocolate mixture into the prepared baking dish and spread it evenly.
  • Drop a few spoonfuls of warm cranberry jam on top of fudge and gently swirl it into fudge using a thin spatula (or the other end of the spatula.)
  • Let fudge cool down to room temperature, cover the dish with plastic wrap, and place into the refrigerator to set.
  • Let it chill for 4-6 hours.
  • Take the parchment paper with fudge out of the pan and onto the cutting board. Pull down the edges of the parchment paper and cut fudge into squares using a sharp knife.

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All images and text ©Lyubov Brooke for ©Will Cook For Smiles. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If using my posts in collections and features, please link back to this post for the recipe. Disclaimer: Nutrition information shown is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate as most ingredients and brands have a slight variation.

Nutrition

Calories: 564kcal | Carbohydrates: 83g | Protein: 7g | Fat: 24g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 31mg | Sodium: 113mg | Potassium: 341mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 76g | Vitamin A: 175IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 246mg | Iron: 1mg
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white chocolate cranberry fudge collage

Originally published on Will Cook For Smiles on December 16, 2012. Updated on November 20, 2019.

LYUBA

ABOUT LYUBA

I’m Lyuba Brooke, mother of 2, the cook, recipe developer, photographer, and author behind willcookforsmiles.com. I share many classic and original recipes, cooking tips, and tutorials. My passion is sharing delicious meals for everyone to try. Read more...

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Filed Under: Chocolate, Christmas Baking, Dessert, Gluten Free

All images and text ©Lyubov Brooke for ©Will Cook For Smiles. Please do not use my images without prior permission. If using my posts in collections and features, please link back to this post for the recipe. Disclaimer: Nutrition information shown is not guaranteed to be 100% accurate as most ingredients and brands have variations.

Comments

  1. Lily says

    November 15, 2014 at 1:18 am

    Hi, do you have a “print recipe” button? I found your blog from a link on http://chocolatechocolateandmore.com/2013/11/25-fantastic-fudge-recipes/
    and would really love to be able to print it.
    Thanks!

    Reply
    • lyuba says

      November 15, 2014 at 3:05 pm

      Hi Lily! Thank you for stopping by and commenting 🙂 I added a printable recipe for you. Sorry, some older posts don’t have printable recipes because I wasn’t available on the old platform. Thank you and I hope you’ll enjoy it 🙂

      Reply
  2. Beth says

    October 10, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    Hi!
    I was wondering about making a raspberry velvet fudge using this as a base. What I want to do is take some pure, unsweetened raspberry juice and reduce it to a syrup consistency. I was thinking that I’d replace a little bit of the sweetened condensed milk with the raspberry and add a small amount of cocoa powder to the white chocolate, no more that a few tablespoons before it starts melting.
    Do you have any thoughts on this? I just wanted to make sure this wasn’t a finicky recipe.
    Thanks!
    Beth

    Reply
    • lyuba says

      October 12, 2015 at 8:10 pm

      Hi Beth,
      This is really not a finicky recipe and a good base for fudge. I think your idea sounds great. Let me know how it will come out because it sounds like it would taste great! (If your raspberry sauce is looking a little thin, you can always add a teaspoon or two of cornstarch to thicken it.)

      Reply
      • Beth says

        October 12, 2015 at 10:49 pm

        Perfect! That’s what I was hoping to hear. I’m aiming to get the raspberry reduction to the same consistency as the milk and combine them before adding to the pot. I’ll definitely post back hear after Halloween to let you know how it worked out!
        Thanks so much!
        Beth

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        • lyuba says

          October 25, 2015 at 1:22 pm

          I can’t wait to hear about it, it sounds really good 🙂

          Reply
  3. Leigh says

    December 9, 2019 at 7:15 pm

    I’m curious as to the instructions….at one point you advise to add the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla to the pot, however I could find no vanilla amount listed in the ingredients of the recipe. Was this a mistype, or is there supposed to be vanilla, and if so, how much? Thank you.

    Reply
    • LyubaB says

      December 11, 2019 at 9:07 am

      I am so sorry, I forgot to add that to the recipe! It’s one teaspoon of vanilla, I will add it in now. Thanks for pointing that out for me!

      Reply
  4. JACK & POLLY says

    December 18, 2021 at 9:43 pm

    5 stars
    We are going to make this tomorrow, will it still be fresh next Friday?

    Reply
    • LyubaB says

      December 22, 2021 at 3:24 pm

      Keep it in the refrigerator and keep it completely air-tight and it should be okay. I would put a layer of plastic wrap directly around it then in an air-tight container.

      Reply
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