Amazing gingerbread fudge shaped like tiny gingerbread men. This fudge recipe has become my favourite of all time. It is bursting with flavour!
Today is our last day to celebrate Christmas Week. I’m so bummed it’s over. It flew by way too fast. Although my waistband is breathing a sigh of relief right now. It’s been a very fattening week.
Thank you all for joining us this week. It’s been a pleasure to bring you all these amazing holiday recipes. Our third year of Christmas Week was a total blast. So many recipes, so little time.
A huge thank you to my co-host for the week. Susan is such an amazing person, I am so lucky to have a friend like her in my life. She keeps me calm when life spins out of control. Which seems to be often. Thank you Susan, I heart you and appreciate having a partner in crime for these events.
Another huge shout out to all our bloggers who joined us this week. It’s a lot of work to pull of events like this. Yet they not only pulled it off, they did so with ease and recipes that blew my mind. I’m so happy they all joined us this year.
I whipped this up pretty quickly, and snapped some super fast photos because my son is here visiting from Calgary. So I’m working limited hours. I took these with artificial light so I may try to find a few minutes to snap some new one in natural light tomorrow. We’ll see how it goes.
My suggestion is not to fret if your gingerbread men do not turn out perfectly. There’s no such thing as a perfect man anyway, right. Imperfections make a person better. It gives them something special. So make sure you make some perfectly imperfect gingerbread men today!
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Gingerbread Fudge
Ingredients
- 2½ cups light brown sugar
- ¾ cup evaporated milk
- ⅛ teaspoon salt
- 3 tablespoons corn syrup
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- optional: allspice I'm not a big fan but you can use it
Instructions
- Combine the brown sugar, evaporated milk, salt and corn syrup in a medium size saucepan. Cook the mixture over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Stir occasionally.
- Once the sugar is dissolved bring the mixture to a boil. Allow it to bubble up for a couple of minutes, but do not scorch it. Now reduce to a soft boil by reducing the heat to a medium-low heat. Let it bubble for few minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add butter to the pan, but do NOT stir yet.
- Let the butter rest int he mixture without stirring until a candy thermometer reaches 110 degrees. Once it reaches that temperature you can remove the saucepan from the heat.
- Stir in vanilla and spices. Mix by hand with a wooden spoon.
- Beat the fudge with a wooden spoon until it loses it's gloss, but not so much that it hardens yet. You want it a bit pliable to pour into silicone gingerbread mold.
- Pour into the silicone mold carefully. It's okay if the men are imperfect. Aren't all men? *holiday giggles*
- Pop you mold in the fridge until the fudge sets up. It should be in there at least an hour, up to about 4 hours.
- Remove the men from the pan. Place on a platter, or start biting their heads off right away.
- Serve with a big old gingerbread loving smile!
Notes
Swing by all the participants to see what they’ve been whipping up for the holidays:
- Biscoff Chocolate Chip Cookies by Dinners, Dishes, and Desserts
- Norwegian Lefse by Farm Fresh Feasts
- Chocolate Dipped Madelines by My Catholic Kitchen
- Chocolate Mint Fudge by Hezzi-D’s Books and Cooks
- Caramel Corn Chocolate Chip Cookies by Mind Over Batter
- Boozy Cherries by Cooking In Stilettos
- Chocolate Mint Fudge by Food Lust People Love
Cake Batter Fudge 
Microwave Peanut Butter Fudge 
Microwave Nutella S’mores Fudge
Toodles and smoochies! xx
[email protected] says
Kim,
These little guys are so cute! You’re so right about the perfect man 😉
It’s been a pleasure joining you this week. Like every event you host I’ve learned a ton and met new folks and pushed myself out of my beet & turnip comfort zone. Thank you!
[email protected] says
Squeal!!! So stinkin’ ADORABLE! I love these!
Carol at Wild Goose Tea says
These little guys are soooooo dang cute, I can hardly stand it. What a splendid and sweet (literally) idea. Novel for sure.
Emily @ Life on Food says
These are so cute. It almost be too hard to eat them. Almost!!
Choc Chip Uru says
This fudge is absolutely adorable 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
Hezzi-D says
These are too cute! I love that you shaped them like gingerbread men..so festive!
Edie says
I love to make cookies. When the first batch comes out of the oven, everyone grabs one. They are way too hot to eat and there we all are, standing in the kitchen blowing on them. Ahh, great times!
Ramona says
Just when I thought you could not make any thing more adorable.. you make these gingerbread fudge men. Oh my they are so cute… but I would eat an army of them. 🙂
MaryB says
These are darling! I love baking anything during the holidays but baking my Grandma’s cinnamon rolls brings back such wonderful memories.
sue|theviewfromgreatisland says
This couldn’t be more adorable, pinning!
Kayle (The Cooking Actress) says
d’awwww these little men are THE CUTEST! And the yuuuummiest
Kim Beaulieu says
Awe thanks Kayle. I heart them. We bought ginger dead men and ninja bread men this year too. So hilarious.
Shell says
I love cooking desserts any time, but at Christmas it is the cheese cakes I look forward to. (to which I look forward). My sister-in-law loves them as do my nephews everybody else just eats them to make me feel better. Love this blog.
Shell
Kim Beaulieu says
Thanks so much Shell. Happy you found me. Happy Holidays. xx
Mary O. says
Cookies, lots of cookies!
Veronica L says
My family always love to make peanut butter fudge during the holiday times
Dani H says
I love making candies, especially chocolate or chocolate-covered, and always bake mini-loaves of an assortment of quick breads as gifts.
Thanks for a chance at the giveaway!
Happy Holidays!
Angela {Mind Over Batter} says
OMG!!! I am in TOTAL squeal mode over these little gingerbread fudge men! Is it wrong that I kinda wanna play with them? Then eat them, of course – But first… Play…
Christy Spurlock says
Homemade apple pie with Blue Bell Ice Cream
Terri C says
Any kind of goodies for Christmas, these are darling! We like fudge and candy of course, but I like to bake cinnamon rolls too.
Lorry says
Pumpkn Cheesecake
Shelby says
I’m all about the cookies at the holidays! I love doing cute cut outs, brown sugar cookies, the chocolate mint cookies, etc. My mom is good at the candies…home made caramels, turtles, jumbo marshmallows dipped in her caramel and rolled in rice crispies…YUM.
Marcy says
Hi Kim,
These little gingerbread men fudge guys are so cute. Where did you get those adorable molds? I looked all over but couldn’t find any with the face and button details. Who makes the mold that you used? I love them.
Thanks so much!
Marcy
Kim Beaulieu says
I’m trying to remember where I grabbed that one from. I think my daughter was with me when I bought it so let me ask her tomorrow and get back to you with an answer. I wish I had bought a few so I could do larger batches.
Marcy says
Thanks Kim for checking this out for me. They are just the cutest little guys. Love your blog. I started a blog last year but haven’t posted for awhile. I am not very computer savvy. I love doing it. It called cozycornercook. I need to get back to it. Hope you can remember where these gingermen came from. I’ll keep looking as well. If I find them I will let you know so you can buy some more for larger batches.
Kim Beaulieu says
Hey Marcy. I’ll swing by to check yours out. I’m not savvy at all. It’s a bit difficult to blog if you’re not, but not impossible. Are you using WP or Blogger? I have both of mine on WP but I started on Blogger. Personally I think it’s a lot more user friendly if you’re doing everything yourself.
I think it was Walmart, but I’m going to keep looking into this. I got sidetracked today and my hooligan is already off to bed, she’s up at 4:30 am every day to go to the university so she hits the hay early. I went looking for the plastic mold in the blog room and it’s missing. Hubs must have put it away. Whenever he does dishes I can never find anything. Ha. As soon as I dig it up I’ll alert you. I know I’m going through all my Christmas shopping receipts this weekend so it’s likely it’ll pop up in those. I’m thinking it was Walmart, Target or Canadian Tire. But I will figure out which soon. xx
Diane says
I found the silicone gingerbread men candy molds on walmart.com 24 molds to the pan.
Marie says
I know it’s not necessary for sweet treats to be totally adorable but these absolutely are. I love them! Thanks for sharing with us at Merry Monday this week!