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When I was pregnant with my first child I had an addiction to root beer floats. I was also addicted to gyros and fat french fries, but those I couldn’t make at home every night! It’s hard to believe that was over 14 years ago. Man, I’m old. Just the reality of that makes me want to grab another bite of these fudge pieces.
I can’t even begin to describe how delicious these taste. One, because I’m a horrible writer…two, because you just have to try them to understand how unique they are! If you eat them cold you may even convince yourself, just a little bit, that you are eating the crunchy part of a root beer float (you know the ice cream with the frozen root beer crystals, yum)!
These were a huge hit in my family. So much so that I’m not sure I should ever make them again. I ate way more than my share, more than several people’s share. Ahhh, but it was so good. And it brought me back to being pregnant with my oldest child. And for just a moment I felt young again. Until I opened my eyes and realized I had 8 loads of laundry to do, dog puke on the carpet to clean up, and 18 extra pounds on my hips.
Root Beer Float Fudge
by Shugary Sweets
Prep Time: 4 hours
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Ingredients (serves 36)
- 3 cup sugar
- ¾ cup butter
- 1 cup heavy cream
- pinch of salt
- 3 cup white chocolate morsels
- 1½ cup marshmallow cream
- 3 tsp root beer concentrate (I use McCormicks)
Instructions
In large saucepan, heat sugar, butter, salt and cream until combined. Bring to a boil and stir continuously for 4 minutes.
Remove from heat. Quickly stir in white chocolate and marshmallow. Whisk in vigorously until smooth, be patient this will take a couple minutes.
Pour half of mixture into a parchment paper lined 13x9 baking dish. To remaining fudge, whisk in root beer concentrate. Stir until combined. Pour over white fudge. Using a knife, swirl the two together. Refrigerate 4 hours or overnight. Cut into bite size pieces and enjoy. Tastes great cold!
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What a great idea. Looks so delicious. Love your pictures. Come over and visit us today. We have a really wonderful pimento cheese recipe to share.
Oh my heck, how I have waited all week for this recipe!!! YUM!
*I love the way you “plated” it!
Thanks Amiee for another HIT!
I agree, great photo styling! Your blog never disappoints. I love coming back to visit. This recipe looks amazing!
http://thebiggreenbowl.blogspot.com
My goodness these look fantastic!
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are you kidding me with this! YUM! and what a brilliant idea!
I would love it if you would share this and/or any other projects you have been up to at Tuesday Talent Show at Chef In Training Tomorrow! Plus there is going to be a fun giveaway too! Thanks so much and I hope to see you there!
-Nikki
http://chef-n-training.blogspot.com/
This looks incredible. I can’t wait to make this. I linked to you from Melt in Your Mouth Monday. I will be making this to send to my son who is away at school. He will love them!
Okay you are a genius. I must try these. This looks incredible.
Just stoppin’ by from Tasty Tuesday and I must say that fudge looks divine! I’m sure it’s very tasty and one I’m going to bookmark and make sometime. Thanks for sharing!
oh me this is amazing, my husband would love it.
Thanks all, they are so dang tasty!
This looks so tasty and fun– what a brilliant idea and so different from the norm!
I love root beer. I’ve been obsessed lately. So I need to try this fudge!
I’ve started a linky party on Tuesdays and would love for you to join sometime! Crazy Sweet Tuesdays
Wow yum! Sounds so good….maybe cause I’m 3 months pregnant haha. Gonna try these. Could I use Root beer concentrate instead of extract? Found you at Tasty Tuesday, check my lil blog out: http://www.mykidsdinner.blogspot.com
Stacy, YES you can! Thanks for stopping by and saying hello!
I cracked up when I read the first sentence of this post, because I, too, had an addiction to root beer floats with my first child. She is only three, though, so not quite in the distant past. I cannot wait to try these! I have everything except the root beer extract, so I’m adding it to my grocery list. This recipe sounds worth the splurge!
This recipe looks amazing! Join in on the fun and come over to Cast Party Wednesday tomorrow to share this tasty recipe with us.
Thanks,
I hope to see you there!
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Oh. My. That looks awesome!!
Thanks for linking up to 2 Maids a Baking!!
Ah, YES PLEASE!!! Just pinned this to make! Can’t wait. Thanks!
I just made this last night for my mom, who loves root beer and needs a pick-me-up – she goes into the hospital this week and I know these will brighten her day!
Holy cow, this looks awesome. Fudge and me, we’re the best of friends. I’ll definitely be giving this a try! Thanks!
I am on a root beer kick right now! I just had homemade root beer (at a restaurant) last weekend and that is all I am thinking about. Where do you buy the extract? Is that just a Walmart? I will have to start looking around for it!
I have never heard of this! I can’t wait to try it! We would love for you to share this at our weekly link party this Saturday. We have an awesome jewelry giveaway going on right now, too! Come stop by!
http://sixsistersstuff.blogspot.com/2011/08/paparazzi-giveaway-and-at-home-job.html
Love,
The Sisters @ http://www.sixsistersstuff.blogspot.com
Whoa, we love root beer floats at my house, this looks so good. I can’t wait to try it.
pinning this one – it sounds so good!
YumMo!! This sounds great! My hubby is not much for sweets, but he does like a rootbeer float, so maybe this will fly.:) I’m a new follower:)
You are a saint! I can’t wait to make these!
Stopping by from Totally Tasty Tues.
What a fantastic recipe! I just wanted to let you know that I loved your post and I shared a link to your blog on my Notepad feature that will be posted tomorrow morning. Thank you so much for sharing!
Oohh, how did I miss this little morsel of delight.
i craved root beer during pregnancy too, sooo weird. And so did my sister in law. Whoa, I wonder if there’s some wives tale to this… Anyway, these look AMAZINGLY delish!!! We love fudge, all kinds!
Oh, yum! I love root beer! Wish you were my neighbor just to get a taste. I’m afraid what would happen if I made these…I might eat them all!
I would love it if you linked up to my Hi-5 Friday party.
my 10 year old will die over these….thank you! I hope you will link up with me here:
http://www.thegingerbreadblog.com/2011/09/sweet-saturday-v3.html
So darn good. I love root beer floats, and fudge, heck just root beer by itself…
Thank you for linking your wonderful recipe to Fat Camp Friday. I would also love for you to join my new forums and link up your website and any linky parties you host! Have a great weekend!
I wanted to let you know that I featured this on my “What I Bookmarked This Week” post today. Stop by and see!
HOLY YUM Batman! I can’t wait to make these!!!
Oh My! This sounds delicious. I can’t wait to make a batch of this fudge. I love rootbear floats.
How different! I love the photo. You are NOT a horrible writer, because I “got it” exactly when you described the crunchy part of a root beer float.
Oh MY heck!!! this sounds fantastic!!
Thanks so much for linking up to my party! I featured your post in my wrap up http://tidymom.net/2011/great-ideas-8/
Have a great holiday weekend.
Another beautiful and interesting fudge from your kitchen. I’d like to invite you to share your recipe on Sweet Indulgences Sunday this week.
http://www.wellseasonedlife.com/2011/09/sweet-indulgences-sunday-20.html
Sounds amazing! I’ll have to look for Root Beer extract, thanks!
I really want some of these! It looks so good! Thanks so much for linking up to Tuesday Talent Show! I would love to have you stop by and link up again tomorrow with more great projects!
-Nikki
http://chef-n-training.blogspot.com/
oh wow….those look amazing!
shannon
Sweet Stella’s
Who’d have thought you could make root beer float fudge?!?! You are a genius! I am pinning this! Thank you! So excited to try these!
Can’t wait to try this!!
YUM!
I featured this on my Inspiration Friday Post…
http://www.laniejandco.com/2011/09/inspiration-friday-9911.html
Aimee – do you mind if I share this recipe on my blog (I’ll be sure to attribute it to you, of course!)? I made it to send to my mom who’s in hospital and she loved it! It’s such a great idea!
We tried your recipe today! I have a question. We didn’t get the two different colors with ours. We used rootbeer concentrate, because we couldn’t find extract. Is that the reason for the color difference? It tastes excelent, but I would love to have that swirled effect. Any help you could give would be outstanding! Thanks!
Kathryn, I use concentrate as well. I’m assuming when you say it wasn’t swirled, was it just a brown color from the concentrate?
I separated half the white fudge out before adding the concentrate, thus when I poured the brown fudge over the white I swirled them together. Hope that helps!!!
It wasn’t that it wouldn’t swirl. The half that I added the rootbeer concentrate to just stayed white, so it’s all one color. I’m not sure what I did wrong. It’s like the concentrate didn’t make the half brown.
I used McCormick Root beer concentrate, it’s a dark brown liquid, so it naturally colored the fudge. Was your concentrate brown or clear, I guess that would make a difference!
We used Watkins, and I don’t think it was that dark. That may be the downfall. We thought maybe it wasn’t enough, because it seems like 3 teaspoons isn’t enough to color half of that recipe. Maybe we will try the McCormick next time we try. I hope that makes the difference! The fudge in the picture is so pretty! Thank you for trying to help me figure this out
Aimee, I have made five batches of this and it is HEAVEN. This will be my go to dessert for EVER now! I made a batch with the Watkins concentrate and it was not as flavorful I thought and the lightness just made me feel that it wasn’t as RootBeer-y… I also used the extract, but mistake, so you’re right McCormicks is the way to go. My honey lives in Georgia and I sent him half a batch of these and he begged for more. Glamour magazine has their “engagement chicken”… I think this is engagement fudge! Thank you SO MUCH for sharing this!!
haha! Jennifer- I’m so glad you enjoyed it. Good info on the flavorings. I’ve only used the McCormicks!
We just finished our batch – it’s delicious! But my root beer layer isn’t brown, it’s white – so we don’t have the pretty effect. I just looked at my bottle of extract – it’s Watkins. Maybe that’s the difference? Next time, we’ll toss in a drop of brown food coloring.
YUMMY!
These look so good! Why can’t I have you as a neighbor??
And I’ve never heard of root beer concentrate, where have I been?!
Aimee, you’re the Fudge Genius!!
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I made this tonight but mine did not look like the picture. I followed the instructions exactly but mine did not have the pretty brown color. Also, you could taste the sugar grain. I mixed it until it was very smooth. Do you have any suggestions to help me improve it for the next time?
Thanks for your awesome blog!
Hi Stacey,
Couple things. First, I use McCormick Root Beer Flavoring. It’s a very dark color. Most other brands are not as dark, so that could have been why your brown is different?? Which brand did you use?
Also, did you boil for the full time, at a rolling boil? I know some stovetops vary in heat, there shouldn’t have been any sugar grain once boiled. Maybe next time add a minute or two onto your boil time.
Hope this helped!
aimee
Thanks for the ideas….I will try those. I did not use Mc Cormick’s. I’m going to try again because my kids liked it even with grainy texture…lol. I will let you know how it goes. BTW, I love your blog!!!
This fudge was delicious! I think though next time I will add just a bit more root beer. I did not get McCormick’s though it smelled like root beer, was %100 pure root beer extract, but I didn’t get the dark color. The top layer was barely a darker ivory and the root beer flavor was a little too faint. None the less, it was very tasty and everyone else loved it too. Thank you!
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