Hannah’s 2nd Note: A 14-ounce can of sweetened condensed milk contains approximately one and a third cups. You’re going to be dividing the can in thirds, so make each third a bit less than a half-cup and you’ll come out all right.

Melt the following together:

1 cup semisweet chocolate chips scant half-cup sweetened condensed milk

2 Tablespoons butter

Stir to make sure everything’s melted and then spread it out in the bottom of the 8-inch square pan you’ve prepared. Let it sit on the counter until it’s cool and slightly hard to the touch and then…

Melt the following together:

1 cup white chocolate chips scant half-cup sweetened condensed milk

2 Tablespoons butter

Stir to make sure everything’s melted and then spread the second layer on top of the first. Let it sit on the counter until it’s cool to the touch and slightly hardened and then…

Melt the following together:

1 cup milk chocolate chips the remainder of the sweetened condensed milk

2 Tablespoons butter

Spread this third layer on top of the other two, smooth it out with a rubber spatula, and let it harden in the refrigerator for at least two hours. (Overnight is even better.) Then turn it out on a cutting board and cut it into bite size squares.

Hannah’s 3rd Note: Mike really likes this fudge when I add chopped macadamia nuts to the middle layer. Norman thinks it’s best with chopped pecans in the bottom layer. I suppose that should tell me something about their personalities, but I have no idea what it is!

Index of Recipes

Brown Sugar Drops

Merry Berry Cookies

Ibby’s Metaphysical English Toffee

Butter-Scotchies

Candy Cane Cookies

Chocolate Pecan Roll

Chocolate Mint Softies

Fudge-Aroons

Three-Way Fudge

Baking Conversion Chart

These conversions are approximate, but they’ll work just fine for Hannah Swensen’s recipes.

Note: Hannah’s rectangular sheet cake pan, 9 inches by 13 inches, is approximately 23 centimeters by 32.5 centimeters.

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*** To measure molasses, first spray the inside of a measuring cup with Pam so that the molasses won’t stick to the sides of the cup.

*** There’s no need to keep brown sugar in stock. It can be easily made with white sugar and molasses, 1/8 cup molasses for every 3 cups of white sugar. (That’s how they manufacture it, really. And it’ll save you from having to deal with all those lumps.) Just add the molasses to the white sugar and stir until it is thoroughly and evenly mixed in.