Cafe Lula

Hands up if you love Maltesers! *puts both hands up*

I had one of my obsessive days a few days ago where I NEEDED to make something with Maltesers. For some reason I decided on fudge. There are a lot of cheaty, no-thermometer-needed fudge recipes around and all they seem to involve is chocolate, condensed milk and maybe some butter. So I figured I’d have a go and see what happened. What happened was yumminess and I put it in my face.

Maltesers fudge

A Cafe Lula recipe

Makes about 64 small squares

Ingredients:

300g/10.5 oz milk chocolate

100g/3.5 oz plain chocolate (around 50% cocoa solids)

1 x 397g/14 oz tin condensed milk

60g/2 oz (about 1/2 a stick) butter

3 tbsp Horlicks powder

100g/3.5 oz Maltesers (about 5 fun-size packs)

Lightly grease and line a 23cm square tin.

In a large pan, melt the chocolate, condensed milk, butter and Horlicks powder over a low heat. Stir until you have a smooth mixture. The mixture should come away from the pan quite easily. It looks a bit like a funny slime monster. A yummy, funny slime monster.

Pour and scrape the mixture into the tin. Scatter the Maltesers over the top and gently press them into the fudge a teeny bit. Chill for a few hours until firm (I put mine in the fridge over night). Cut into squares. Marvel at how little it now resembles a monster.