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10/15/2026

Because here’s the truth about most fudge recipes you find online.

They skip the most important parts. The soft ball stage. The cooling process. The creaming. These aren’t optional steps — they’re everything. And without them you get grainy sugary fudge that crumbles when you cut it and doesn’t taste anything like what you’d find in a real fudge shop.

Nobody tells you that. And then you blame yourself when it goes wrong.

I’m here to change that. 🍬

I’m Sheryl — a retired professional chocolatier with 20 years of experience across two successful chocolate businesses.

A home based craft show business in the 1990s that helped pay off my house in 7 years.

Then Chocolat on James — my own brick and mortar chocolate shop with 20 employees and a fudge counter that people drove across town for.

I made old fashioned fudge professionally for years. And the method I used every single week at my shop is the same method I’m sharing with you today for free. 🍬

Here’s what real old fashioned fudge actually requires:

Real cream. Real butter. Boiled low and slow to the soft ball stage — not guessed at, not rushed. Then cooled before you touch it. Then creamed — either in a stand mixer or the old fashioned tabletop way — until it transforms from liquid and glossy into something thick, smooth, and perfectly matte.

That moment of transformation is everything.

And once you see it — once you do it yourself — you will never make fudge any other way again. 🍬

This is my classic vanilla fudge. The foundation that every single one of the 17 flavours on my chocolate shop fudge counter was built on. Smooth. Dense. Melt in your mouth. Exactly like you’d find in a real fudge shop.

And today it’s yours for free.

Comment VANILLA and I’ll send the recipe straight to your messages. 👇

📌 Make sure you’re following me so the link comes straight through!

10/15/2026

I brought this buttercrunch toffee to craft shows every weekend for 12 years. It never once came home with me.

That tells you everything you need to know about this recipe.

Buttercrunch toffee enrobed in rich chocolate with roasted almonds pressed right in. That combination of buttery crunchy toffee, smooth chocolate and toasted almonds is absolutely impossible to resist.

This was a staple in my early chocolate business at the craft shows and when I opened Chocolat on James in 2015 it came straight to the shop with me. Some recipes are just too good to leave behind.

Customers would come in and head straight for the toffee. It was one of those things people bought for themselves and then came back to buy as gifts. Every single time.

The technique matters with buttercrunch. The temperature, the timing, getting that perfect snap. But once you nail it you will have a recipe you make over and over again for the rest of your life.

And I’m going to show you exactly how to do it. 🍫

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Comment BUTTERCRUNCH below and I’ll send you the free recipe link straight to your DMs.

10/15/2026

➡️Comment “Topten” and I’ll send you the link to my recipe book - Top Ten Chocolate Bars.

‼️Make sure to follow me so I can send you the link!

✅I have 10 recipes that I have perfected over the years of copycat chocolate bars such as Mars, Twix, Snickers, Butterfinger, Oh Henry, Peanut Butter Explosion and a few of my own combinations that I think pair well together.

✅You can use discount code Save20 for 20% off.

I sold these bars in my Chocolate Shop and developed many of the recipes over the years so you know the recipes are tried and true!

The link is also up in my profile. Each bar has video instruction and there are 3 bonus video bar recipes as well!

Also, grab my free guide on How to Temper Chocolate and start practising today! It’s linked in my Bio, just scroll down and you will see it!


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