I always laugh at myself, because I can literally prepare a fabulous 3- course meal for 12 people, but I totally fail at making simple rice, eggs..or fudge! In fact, until now I had pretty much given up on making my own fudge..and simply relied on the holiday season well-wishers and generous neighbors for my supply! That was until I learned about this ridiculously simple method! I almost kinda-sorta feel a little guilty at the simplicity of this fudge, but one bite always makes me feel better! 🙂
I see fudge as a beautiful, sweet blank canvas just waiting to be brought to life! And when I think about ways to bring something to life, Cinnamon Rolls are usually the first thing that comes to mind..well, and coffee of course..lol! 😉
So it only makes sense that Fudge & Cinnamon Rolls are brought together in this harmonious sweet, sticky, Pecan filled, swirly cinnamony treat! This simple fudge has every element of a warm, gooey, Pecan filled Cinnamon Roll, minus the necessary fork, plate and manners! These Cinnamon Roll treats can be grabbed at a moment’s notice and popped into your mouth..no muss..no fuss!
You’ll never see Cinnamon Rolls or fudge the same way again! 🙂
What you’ll need:
1-16oz. container of Cream Cheese Frosting
1 bag of White Chocolate Chips
1 Packet of Duncan Hines Cinnamon Roll Frosting Creations mix
1 Cup Brown Sugar
1 tbsp. finely chopped Pecans
1 tsp. Cinnamon
1 tsp. good quality Vanilla Extract (Rodelle’s is amazing)
approx. 1 tbsp. of water ..or so.
A 1 ” round cookie cutter..or shot glass
A double boiler
A shallow pan with about a 1″ lip
Directions:
First prepare the Cinnamon Swirl:
In a medium bowl combine the Brown Sugar, Pecans, Cinnamon, Vanilla & water, mix well and set aside!
In a double boiler add the White Chocolate Chips, the Cream Cheese Frosting, and the Frosting Creations flavor packet..stir constantly until it’s melted together and smooth.
Line your pan with parchment paper, set aside
When the fudge is melted together (clearly I still had some lumps..lol), pour it into the pan..
Swirl the Cinnamon-Brown Sugar-Pecan mixture into the fudge with a fork or chop stick, making pretty swirlies! 🙂
Set it aside to harden up for about an hour…it will feel like days! 😉
When it’s all set up..you can either cut it up, or use a round cutter of some sort to give the fudge that fun “Cinnamon Roll” look!
Pop three one in your mouth, and savor the amazing Cinnamon Roll & Fudge combo! ~Enjoy! 🙂
A BIG thank-you & Shout-out to Rodelle Vanilla for supplying me with the BEST Vanilla Extract in the world, it made this fudge ahh-mazing! What a difference good Vanilla makes, check them out..you’ll LOVE! 🙂
P.S. They believe in good old hand written notes too..so great!
I really like this idea. I decorate cakes and every time I make cream cheese buttercream I always have some left over and end up throwing it away. Next time I have leftovers I am going to try this…sound wonderful.
There are 2 kinds of white baking chips.
One is vanilla flavored and the other one is white chocolate.
I can’t picture chocolate and cinnamon in the same recipe.
I know you said “white chocolate” but I just want to make sure that they are chocolate flavor and not vanilla.
Thank you! I’m looking forward to making this for Thanksgiving.
Any flavor you like will work…. 🙂
I saw this & it looks so good & a different flavor for fudge. Besides the white or chocolate that you always see during the holidays. What I was wondering is how big of a pan this will make ? Like a 9x 13 inch pan or like a cookie sheet or something like that. Usually when you make fudge it is closer to an 8×8 inch pan is what you use when making fudge. Also probably depends how big you cut the pieces as to how many you get out of the pan. Just wondering.
In an earlier post, she said she used a 5×9 ish pan so it would be on the thicker side 🙂
I also was wondering about pan size. The fudge sounds heavenly!
I know this may be a stupid question, but as far as computers are concerned I AM stupid. Where can I print these recipes without all the pictures involved?? Thanks for your help………and patience.
Not stupid at all..simply click the box at the top right of the print page that says “remove images”. You can also delete any section you don’t need. Hope that helps! 🙂
I just had to hurry and post that I just tried this recipe out on my family and they loved it!!! As a working woman and also a full-time student with children any recipe that is so simple, but that also tastes like you have spent hours preparing it is totally welcome in my home, so thankyou! In response to “Anna” and the rudeness of her posts, also the comment about you not posting her comment: as a faithful viewer of your site, I must put my two cents in. If it were me that this type of comment had been sent to, I myself would not have posted the comment just for the pure fact that the comment was purely unprofessional and might I add hateful and uncalled for. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. Usually a comment of this nature is spun out of jelousy and the fear that someone might be doing a little better than themself. As I stated before, I made this delicious recipe lastnight and my family LOVED it, shortcuts and all! LOL. I look forward to more great recipes to try on my family.
These look soooo delicious! Definitely trying them. If I canr fund the creation packets how do I make the cinn/brown sugar mix? Thanks 🙂
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Gosh reading through some snarky comments on here! Anywhoosers! Aside from using “terrible canned crap” lol do I HAVE to use a double boiler? Because I’m not even sure I know what that is, let alone have one. Any substitutes I can use??? Btw. I love your blog I found you on Pinterest when I wanted a divine cookie and the “coffee cake cookies” came along and you’ve been helping me go up in pant sizes for over a year now! Lol I love you! I love that you use “common folk” ingredients, lol I don’t always have the damn patience to make “”homemade cream cheese cinnamon frosting” FROM SCRATCH! I’m glad you make these recipes simple. If I want to get fancy I do. I definitely don’t bitch to you about it!
Hahaha…hugs! 🙂
almost looks better than a cinnamon roll- (and one of
them is pretty darned good!!!)
Is the swirling mixture grainy textured due to the sugar?
I didn’t think so 🙂
The Duncan Hines Frosting Creation line has been discontinued. Any substitution suggestions?
I don’t know about anyone else having the same problem I have in getting this recipe to print for me so it’s all in 1 place instead of spread out in the commercials for cars. I would really like to make it done day because it sounds awesome, but not if I can’t print it out.