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Amazingly Easy Peanut Butter Fudge

This old fashioned peanut butter fudge recipe is light and creamy, and amazingly simple! No one would ever guess that it only requires four ingredients, one pot, and a few minutes of cooking time.

Easy peanut butter fudge

Every time I make this peanut butter fudge, I feel like I'd died and gone to a sweet, peanut-buttery heaven where I danced among unicorns and fluffy white clouds.

So I am sharing this super easy peanut butter fudge recipe from a family cookbook.

This fudge recipe is the best because:

  • There are only four simple ingredients!
  • It's made in only one pot!
  • And the instructions are only two sentences long!

So if you've always envisioned the peanut butter fudge-making process as being something complex, requiring candy thermometers and special sugars, and perhaps a little bit of fairy dust... let me show you how easy it is to make peanut butter fudge!

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Peanut butter fudge with marshmallow fluff

This fudge needs just a container of marshmallow fluff (or marshmallow creme), some good old fashioned creamy peanut butter, milk, and sugar. The secret's out, and I can't wait for y'all to make this yourselves.

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Spreading the fudge into a dish to cool

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Best Peanut Butter for Peanut Butter Fudge:

As much as I love natural peanut butter, you don't want to use it in this recipe. Stick with traditional creamy peanut butter (I almost always use Jif).

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Fudge making tip:

The fudge-making process works best if you put the marshmallow fluff and peanut butter into bowls (as pictured above) before adding them to the milk/sugar mixture. That way you can add them quickly and make sure everything melts together without separation.

Ingredients prepped for peanut butter fudge

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The Best and Easiest Peanut Butter Fudge Recipe

Easy peanut butter fudge made with marshmallow fluff (creme).
4.76 from 119 votes
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Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Prep Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 10 minutes
Total Time: 20 minutes
Servings: 20
Calories: 211kcal
Author: Kate

Ingredients

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 7 oz marshmallow fluff or marshmallow creme
  • 12 oz creamy peanut butter
  • ½ cup whole milk

Instructions

  • Butter a small pyrex or 8x8 baking dish and set aside.
  • In a medium saucepan (preferably non-stick), combine the milk and sugar, and bring to a boil. Continue to boil, stirring constantly, for three minutes.
  • Remove the pan from the heat and add the peanut butter and marshmallow fluff. Stir until well combined.
  • Spread the fudge into the baking dish. Allow to cool to room temperature, and then refrigerate

Nutrition

Calories: 211kcal | Carbohydrates: 32g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 8g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 80mg | Potassium: 118mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 27g | Vitamin A: 10IU | Calcium: 14mg | Iron: 0.3mg

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Little C

Sunday 24th of December 2023

My daughter and I tried this recipe and it did not do right. We followed recipe as directed and before we could get the candy out of the pot it set up and it was so crumbly . we had to trash it

Diana

Friday 19th of January 2024

@Kate, This happened to me also. I read this review before starting so I followed everything exactly !

Kate

Thursday 11th of January 2024

I'm sorry to hear that! Without being in your kitchen to see what went wrong, the only thing I can ask is to double check that you got all the ingredients (full fat peanut butter, whole milk, etc) and amounts correct, as well as making sure that all the steps were followed to completion (bringing to a boil, stirring constantly for 3 full minutes, etc). I hope you give this another try!

Molly

Friday 22nd of December 2023

This is just like the peanut butter fudge that my Great Aunt Elsie used to make for my cousins and me!! Delicious and it sent me back in time 50 years!! Ha! :)

Linda

Friday 22nd of December 2023

I made this fudge last night, and it’s very creamy and tasty! I only had marshmallows, so I just weighed out 7 oz., and stirred them in before the peanut butter, until they melted.

Kristy Young

Friday 15th of December 2023

I love this recipe and it is so easy and delicious but I have been cutting back on the sugar and carbs and I was wondering if you could use allulose sweetener in place of the sugar. It's the only sugar substitute that me and my family have found that actually tastes like regular sugar and my husband and kids are very picky about the taste lol

Leslie

Sunday 10th of December 2023

Super easy and super delicious! I added vanilla also.

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