Beulah’s Amazing White Chocolate Rum Fudge with Salted and Lime Zest

Ingredients:

  • 5 cups sugar
  • 2 sticks unsalted butter
  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 1   1/2 teaspoons of vanilla
  • 30 marshmallows  about 10 oz.
  • 12 oz  Ghirardelli white Chocolate and rum and lime zest with salt on top)
  • 2 1/2 cups powdered sugar
  • 1 cup Bacardi Rum.
  • Zest of 2 limes
  • 3/4 tablespoon of coarse kosher salt

1. Whisk rum with confectioner’s sugar, and set aside.
2.  Foil and butter a 9 x 13 (or larger) baking pan.
3. Put sugar, butter, milk, and vanilla in a large pot with a heavy bottom. Stirring steadily until mixture boils, continue stirring while letting it boil for 3 minutes (time it, this is important).   Remove from heat.
4. Add the marshmallows and white chocolate, stir until all of it is melted and blended into the sugar mix.
5.  Give rum mixture a quick stir, and add it to the pot, stirring until fully incorporated.
6.  Pour into a greased pan, and chill.  Let mellow for a day before cutting.
7.  Grate lime zest on top of cut fudge and shake on the coarse kosher salt.

Did I say this fudge is amazing!  Oh My!  You’ve never tasted better.  Enjoy!