Cocoa Fudge

Photo: flickr user norwichnuts

Ingredients

cup cocoa

3 cups sugar

teaspoon salt

cup milk

cup butter

1 teaspoon vanills

Preparation

Combine cocoa, sugar and salt in a large saucepan. Add mmilk gradually, mix thoroguly, bring to a bubbly boil on high heat. Stirring continuously.

Reduce heat to medium, and continue to bo9il the mixture without stirring until a small amount of mixture forms a soft ball when dropped into cold water. Remove from heat. Add butter and vanilla. Do not stir allow fudge to cool at room temperature until it reaches 100 degrees. Beat by hand or with portable exlectric mixer until the fudge thickesn and loses some of its gloss.

Quickly pour and spread fudge in lightly buttered 8x8x2 inch pan.

Cool and cut into squares.

Yield: about 3 dozen squares