This recipe was made every Father’s Day in my mom’s Kindergarten Sunday School Class at Galena Park United Methodist Church. The kids helped make it and every child got a few pieces to give to their dad, uncle, grandpa, brother or other family member or friend. The ‘fudge’ is only slightly thicker than fruit roll ups.
It has been revised for COVID-19 “stay home, work safe” teenagers to make with (or for) their siblings and families. Thanks to Akins High School students in Austin, Texas for trying it out first!
- 1 Tablespoon cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup powdered sugar
- 1 Tablespoon peanut butter, any kind
- 2 -4 teaspoons milk
- 1 plastic baggie, like a sandwich bag
Place the cocoa powder and powdered sugar in a plastic baggie. Seal the bag and shake to mix the two ingredients.
Open the bag and add the peanut butter and 2 teaspoons of milk. Reseal the bag and knead the ingredients together with your fingers. It feels a little like pushing around tiny pieces of PlayDoh inside the bag. Push the ingredients together until you get a crumbly mess. If the dry ingredients are not clumping with the peanut butter, add 1 teaspoon more milk. Knead some more. If it still doesn’t form big crumbs – the size of granola or oatmeal flakes – then add 1 more teaspoon of milk and keep kneading. If you add too much milk, the fudge will not dry out.
Now, it is time to roll.
Place the baggie on a flat surface and open the seal about 1 inch in the middle for air to come out. Starting at the bottom of the bag, roll it up like a burrito to push out extra air.
Unroll the bag of ingredients. Reseal the top. Now use the peanut butter jar like a rolling pin to roll back and forth across the flat bag of fudge ingredients. The goal is to flatten the fudge ingredients together into an even slab. This rolling forces them to work together after the kneading has introduced them. Again, it is only slightly thicker than a fruit roll up after you’ve flattened it with the rolling.
Put the bag of fudge aside and go play a game of Solitaire or something else that takes 20 minutes.
After the fudge hardens for 20 minutes, carefully open the bag and slice the fudge into pieces. It’s okay if some of the fudge crumbles. You can always eat it with a spoon!
Makes 6 -9 pieces of very thin fudge.
Have fun!
PS, I tried this with regular sugar and it turns out okay, but you can still feel the grains of sugar on your tongue when you eat it. You need a sturdier baggie – like a freezer bag – because you need to heat it for 30 seconds in the microwave after rolling it flat with the peanut butter jar. The sugar gets really hot in the microwave, so this is not a version for young children to make on their own.