Easy Sun Butter Chocolate Fudge - A decadent treat made allergy friendly by using nut free Sun Butter. Makes a wonderful treat or edible gift for the holiday season.
By now, you guys know all about my daughter's food allergies. In case it is slipping your mind, she is allergic to peanut, tree nut, sesame, egg, soy and chickpea. She used to be allergic to milk but thankfully we outgrew that one. While she has many allergies, I am pretty darn lucky that they all are fairly mild. We've never had an anaphylactic reaction (thankfully). She breaks out in hives and she gets massive eczema breakouts when exposed. We are also pretty lucky in that fact that she is able to be around her allergens, in other words, her allergies are not air born. She would have to consume the product for a reaction to occur.
From the end of October thru the end of December are the worst months for allergy families. We start off with Halloween. Awesome, right? Not really, my poor kid knocks door to door and we watch peanut butter cup after peanut butter cup deposited into her bin. We get home and sort out everything and the poor kid ends up with about 1/10 of her bounty.
Next up, her birthday and Thanksgiving. Tons of food. Tons of desserts. Tons of things that are brought over that she can't have! Imagine seeing the most decadent cake and cookie spread right there in front of you. Oh but wait, you can't eat any of it.
Finally, the Christmas season. Edible gifts, treats and cookies at every party and ever house we visit. None for her.
Okay, so why am I telling you this? Because this year I felt bad that everyone around her has awesome treats. We go to the Christmas store and everyone is eating fudge and cookies and she can't have any because the plain chocolate fudge might have been cut with a knife that was used for the Snickers or some other cross contamination. So I marched my butt home and decided to make a fudge treat that she could have.
Strike that, not a treat that was just safe (because safe treats are often bland and boring treats) but a treat that she would be excited to eat!
So that is my long winded story of why I decided to make this Sun Butter Fudge.
It really couldn't be easier. The one thing you MUST do is make sure your pan is lined with parchment. Let it hang over the edges so when the fudge sets, you can just lift the whole batch out of the pan for easy cutting.
I always like to buy the cheap tins at the dollar store and fill them with fudge for easy edible gifts for teachers, bus drivers etc. With so many allergies out there these days this Easy Sun Butter Chocolate Fudge is a safe option. I pair the fudge with a $10 Amazon Gift Card
(that I print right at home) and that's that!
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Easy Sun Butter Chocolate Fudge
Ingredients
- 2 T Butter
- 12 oz Milk Chocolate Morsels
- 14 oz Sweetened Condensed Milk
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla Extract
- ¼ C Sun Butter Sunflower Seed Butter
Instructions
- Prepare an 8x8 pan with parchment paper, leaving parchment to hang over the edge a bit for easy removal.
- Bring a pan of water to a boil.
- Place butter, morsels, sweetened condensed milk and vanilla in a glass bowl that will fit snugly on the pan of water.
- Place glass bowl on top of pan with boiling water. Turn down heat to medium/low. Stir over heat until ingredients are well combined and smooth.
- Spread mixture into prepared 8x8 pan.
- Drop the sun butter by spoonfuls all over the top of the chocolate mixture.
- Swirl in the sun butter by dragging a butter knife through the sun butter.
- Refrigerate at least 2 hours to set.
- After fudge has set, remove from pan, lifting with parchment overhang. Cut into squares.
- Enjoy!
Carlee says
What a perfectly delicious looking treat for those with and without allergies!
foodyschmoody says
Thanks Carlee! I must admit, I have zero allergies and I ate more than my fair share!
Mandy says
My daughter shares many of the same food allergies as yours and she also recently outgrew her milk allergy. We are so excited because this is the first Christmas that we don't have to also avoid milk. The first treat that came to my mind was fudge! Thank you for the recipe, we can't wait to try it.
foodyschmoody says
Oh, I'm so happy to hear she has outgrown one of them. We recently tested negative for soy too so here's hoping! Enjoy!