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There is a ton of baking going on in my house lately, and not just because the holiday season is upon us. My four year old has discovered a love of baking and so we are cooking stuff up in the kitchen all the time now. Luckily I have a lots of MOPS groups and holiday parties to take all these sweets too. Nestle asked me if I wanted to host a little Thanksgiving get together and share a dessert recipe using their baking chips and evaporated milk with my friends. I decided to make an easy maple and chocolate swirled fudge recipe, mostly because my husband and I had some amazing maple fudge when we visited Asheville a few weeks ago and I have been trying to perfect it ever since.
(Like, my first batch involved marshmallows and just went so terribly wrong that my friends were all “So you’re not going to put this one on your blog, right?”)
Then I ordered some barbecue and invited some friends over for a playdate. I mean, I made fudge. That was about as domestic as it was going to get in my kitchen, y’all. And barbeque is delicious.
I do love to decorate for parties though, even just small ones. I’m very southern like that. So I set out a little Thanksgiving-themed table on account of how my husband hung a giant television above our fireplace and so I can never have a cute, seasonally decorated mantle like other bloggers. Cue me singing Echosmith, “I wish that I could be like the cool kids.”
(You can download that Thanksgiving printable here if you like)
To make the maple chocolate fudge I just used this recipe for maple fudge from The Brown Eyed Baker.
When it came time to add the flavoring, I poured about 1/4 of the fudge mixture into the mixer. I added the maple extract to that and then I poured 1/4 cup full of the NESTLÉ® TOLL HOUSE® Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels into the mixture that was still on the stove and stirred that while the rest was in the mixer.
Then I poured the maple fudge base into the pan and drizzled the chocolate fudge over top of it and then used a butterknife to swirl it into the maple mixture in a figure eight pattern.
I found this fall wreath and thought it would make really cute little fall-ish serving tray so I sat a decorative plate on top of it. That made me feel very Pinterest-y and kind of like I had redeemed my original fudge fails.
Obviously I am very good at cutting things into symmetrical squares. Probably I should have been a caterer.
I pulled out the same easy DIY backdrop that I use all the time and strung some fall banners across it to take some pictures of our kids. My friends have super cute kids.
Then they colored Thanksgiving placemats and made their own little puff ball turkeys.
It was a sweet little kid version of FRIENDSGIVING. Almost as good as that one Thanksgiving episode of FRIENDS that involved Brad Pitt.
What is your favorite fudge flavor? Peanut butter chocolate and maple always win out for me. Plus, they are pretty quintessentially fall. To see more fall inspired recipes to celebrate #Feast4all with #CollectiveBias, visit http://www.flavorfulmoments.net!
