This Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Fudge is your favorite liquor and chocolate COMBINED! Make this easy homemade fudge recipe with condensed milk in five minutes! It’s so fast and delicious. You won’t be able to eat just one piece.
For even more great easy fudge recipes make sure you look at these 25 easy fudge recipes.
One of my most popular recipes this time of year is my Bailey’s Fudge. Actually, all of my fudge recipes are really popular this time of year, but especially the Bailey’s Fudge. Guys. People like their liquor and their chocolate together. Maybe a reason why this Red Wine Chocolate Cake is so popular.
I recently got a comment on my Bailey’s Fudge recipe from someone asking me to make Jack Daniel’s Fudge. And I was immediately intrigued.
Guys.
I like whiskey.
Also . . . . at the risk of all of you coming together to start an intervention for this weird blogger stranger who’s posts you sometimes read . . . . I started another blog . . . . that is only cocktails.
Shake Drink Repeat is my new little fun side hobby because I have an abundance of free time.
Guys. I like sarcasm too.
SDR is a work in progress, but my hope is that in the future (read: After Christmas when I have more time), it will be the home of tons of fun and obscure cocktails that you can play with at home.
Anyway.
Let’s talk about this fudge!
HOW TO MAKE EASY HOMEMADE FUDGE
The key to making an easy homemade fudge is to start with sweetened condensed milk. The basic ratio is 14 oz sweetened condensed milk to 3 cups of chocolate chips. But when you start throwing in other liquids (like whiskey) or other things (like Nutella) you have to tweak things a little bit.
HOW TO MAKE JACK DANIEL’S WHISKEY FUDGE
- Make sure that you stick to the recipe. I know, this is not a novel idea, but it’s pretty important.
- When you measure the sweetened condensed milk, use a glass measuring cup and measure to the 8 oz mark. Do NOT use the whole can.
- Make sure you buy SWEETENED CONDENSED MILK. It looks incredibly similar to the evaporated milk, but they work very differently. Your fudge will not set if you use evaporated milk.
- Before cutting this fudge, stick it in the refrigerator (covered) for an hour. It will make it cut much more smooth.
- To get the crisp edges you see on my fudge, I actually used a pairing knife and sliced of a tiny bit. You don’t need to do that if you aren’t a food blogger. It still tastes great with rough edges.
Jack Daniel’s Whiskey Fudge
Ingredients
- 3 1/2 cups chocolate chips I used milk chocolate chips
- 1 cup sweetened condensed milk see note
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup Jack Daniel’s whiskey
Instructions
- Line an 8 by 8 inch baking dish with aluminum foil.
- In a large bowl melt the chocolate chips in the microwave according to package instructions.
- Stir in the sweetened condensed milk, the vanilla extract, and the whiskey.
- Pour the mixture into the baking dish. Cover with aluminum foil and let set completely (about four to eight hours). Refrigerate for 1 hour before slicing. This last step of refrigeration is optional, but makes the fudge slice nicely.
- Enjoy and store in an airtight container for two weeks.
Notes
Adrianne says
I’ve come across your recipes…I have a love for cookingand baking…Im excited to try this jack Daniels fudge my best friend/sister-in-law loves jack so what a great idea she will love it and she’s been wanting some fudge..thanks !!!
I hope you both love it Adrianne!
Cindy says
I like dark chocolate as opposed to milk chocolate. What chips would you recommend? Thanks in advance.
If I were going to make this with dark chocolate, I would go cheap and just grab a bag of chips in the baking aisle. If I was making it for someone special I would buy some Ghirardelli chips.
June says
Fudge is a learning experience, I agree, but you can really tell who cooks and who doesn’t from these comments! lol
Dee Allen says
How about a Fireball fudge. Would that work?
Sounds delicious Dee!
Kate says
So I’ve never made fudge before but I made a batch of this for someone’s birthday and it was a hit! Great easy recipe, I used Gentleman Jack as my partner had it handy and it was awesome :)
I’m so happy to hear that Kate!
Stephanie says
This recipe had me scouring your site for an hour saving recipes. I look forward to many more!
Thats the best compliment Stephanie!
Alice says
How would I adjust the ingredients to make a 9×9 pan?
I probably wouldn’t, Alice. I would probably just make a slightly thinner fudge.
Jeff M says
I made this exactly as you suggested and it was absolutely tremendous. I am a huge jd guy and thought this recipe sounded great. Thanks for putting it out there, ill be making another batch this weekend, probably using those mini muffin cups as someone else suggested! Again, thanks! Delicious…
I’m so happy you liked it Jeff!
Dean says
Hi I have made this, last night and set overnight 12 hours now and the top has set but the underside is still sticky, tastes great but am wondering what i can do to set it like freeze it for a short while or flip it over, what would work
I’m so sorry this didn’t work for you Dean! Based on what you are describing, I wonder if it wasn’t fully combined when poured into the pan. It shouldn’t be so different between the top and bottom. I would try freezing for 20 minutes and then cutting. Again, I’m so sorry it didn’t work for you, I’ve never had that problem.
Mike says
Why doesn’t someone figure out what the measurements would be to use a whole can of sweetened condensed milk . It would use the whole can and you would have more fudge, win win!
deedee says
I want to try this using Captain Morgan Rum. Same requirements for ingredients?
Should be exactly the same!