Ingredients
- 3 cups white chocolate chips
- 1 (14 oz) can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 teaspoon cotton candy flavoring
- Pink food coloring
- Blue food coloring
- Unicorn sprinkles or rainbow sprinkles, for decoration
Similar cotton candy fudge recipes use white chocolate plus a can of sweetened condensed milk, cotton candy extract, and pink/blue coloring, sometimes with a small amount of butter added for richness.
Step-by-step instructions
Prepare the pan
- Line an 8×8-inch baking dish with parchment paper, leaving some overhang on the sides for easy removal later.
Lining the pan with parchment or foil and leaving an overhang is standard in fudge recipes to help lift the slab out cleanly for cutting.
Melt the white chocolate
- In a medium saucepan, combine the white chocolate chips and sweetened condensed milk.
- Stir over low heat until the chocolate is fully melted and the mixture is smooth and thick.
- Remove from heat and stir in the vanilla extract and cotton candy flavoring.
White chocolate fudge recipes commonly melt white chocolate with condensed milk over low to medium heat (or in the microwave), stirring often to prevent scorching and seizing. Sweetened condensed milk is specifically noted as necessary for proper setting and creamy texture.
Divide and color
- Divide the warm fudge mixture evenly into two separate bowls.
- Add a few drops of pink food coloring to one bowl and blue food coloring to the other.
- Stir each mixture until the color is fully incorporated and you have distinctly pink and blue fudge.
Cotton candy fudge tutorials typically split the base into two bowls and tint each separately, often pink and purple or pink and blue, before swirling.
Create the swirl effect
- Spoon the pink and blue fudge mixtures into the prepared baking dish in alternating dollops, scattering them around the pan.
- Use a toothpick or butter knife to gently swirl the colors together, creating a marbled, cotton-candy-like effect.
Recipe notes for cotton candy fudge often emphasize working fairly quickly, as the fudge thickens as it cools, and using a toothpick or knife to swirl without over-mixing so the colors stay distinct.
Add sprinkles and set
- Immediately sprinkle unicorn or rainbow sprinkles over the top of the fudge.
- Gently press them very lightly so they adhere but don’t sink in.
Many cotton candy and “unicorn” fudge recipes finish with colorful sprinkles on top to match the playful theme.
- Refrigerate the fudge for at least 2 hours, or until fully set and firm.
- Once firm, lift the fudge out of the pan using the parchment overhang and cut it into small squares.
Set times of about 2 hours in the refrigerator are typical for this style of sweetened-condensed-milk fudge.