Name: Easy 5-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Recipe With Pecans
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 3 h 25 min
Yield: 24
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 1/2 sticks of butter; 5 ounces of evaporated milk; 3 cups of white sugar; 7 ounces of fluffy marshmallow; 12 ounces of semi-sweet chocolate chips; 1 cup of chopped pecans (optional)

Easy 5-ingredient chocolate fudge recipe with pecans only requires a few basic ingredients and is perfect for the holiday season and cookie exchanges.

Lots Of Chocolate Flavor

Pieces of pecan filled fudge on a white plate. The Plate is sitting on top of a wooden cutting board with pecans surrounding the plate.

For chocolate lovers worldwide, this is a simple yet fun recipe that produces only the best pecan fudge. You can give this traditional dessert to your friends and family or keep it for yourself.

This yummy delight can be enjoyed with or without pecans.

Pecans in a bowl, chocolate chips in a bowl, sugar in a bowl, evaporated milk in a cup, and fluffy marshmallow ingredients sitting on a cutting board.

Ingredients for Chocolate Fudge

Butter
Evaporated milk
White sugar
Marshmallow cream
Semi-sweet chocolate chips
Chopped pecans (optional)

Slices of fudge stacked up on a white plate. There's a sharp knife on the cutting board.

Instructions For The Easy Chocolate Fudge Recipe

Melt butter in a saucepan on medium heat.
Pour in evaporated milk and sugar, then stir.
Bring mixture to a boil and cook until temperature reaches 234°F.
Remove from heat and stir in marshmallow cream, then mix until melted.
Add chocolate chips and stir until melted.
Add pecans (optional), then stir.
Pour fudge into a baking dish, then let it sit at room temperature for several hours to set up.

How To Make The Fudge

Melting butter in a saucepan next to ingredients for fudge.

First, place the butter into your pan on medium heat.

Continue heating the butter until it is a liquid.

Top image containing a cup pouring evaporated milk into a sauce pan with liquid butter. Bottom image containing sugar being poured into a sauce pan with stirred mixture of butter and evaporated milk.

After the butter has melted, start adding in the evaporated milk and sugar.

Sauce pan on a heater containing a mixture of butter, evaporated milk, and sugar stirred thoroughly.

Stir until the mixture until you get something similar to this.

Bring your mixture to a boil until it reaches 234°F, then remove it from the heat source.

Sauce pan with fluffy marshmallow recently added to the mixture being stirred thoroughly.

Grab your fluffy marshmallow and add it in to the pan, stir until it mixes thoroughly.

After mixing, add in your chocolate chips and stir. After stirring, the heat will melt the chocolate chips into a creamy and delicious mixture.

Cup containing chocolate chips being poured into the sauce pan with the stirred ingredients inside.

Your chocolate mixture should start to look delicious and creamy. When it does, add in your chopped pecans and stir until the pecans are evenly distributed throughout the fudge.

Pouring chopped pecans into a sauce pan containing the mixture of the previous ingredients.

The best part is pouring the hot fudge and waiting until it cools to take a slice..

Pouring the fudge into a piece of parchment paper in your prepared pan will help you easily take out the pieces of fudge.

Almond fudge sitting in a glass pan after cooling off. There is a piece of parchment paper sitting in between the fudge and the glass pan.

You can store the fudge by covering it with plastic wrap or putting it in an airtight container.

Add Variety To Your Fudge

Use vanilla instead of chocolate
Sprinkle some flaky sea salt on top for a sweet and savory delight.
Crush up some candy canes on top of your fudge for Christmas time.
Use dark chocolate or butterscotch chips for a different flavor.
Replacing the semi-sweet chocolate chips with milk chocolate chips or white chocolate chips will make a tasty big difference for all you sweet tooths out there.

My Tips For Making The Perfect Fudge