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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 3:48:10 PM

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just reading that recipe has made me hungry, but has also put pounds on me!
wonderful.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 3:52:19 PM

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I am seriously considering delaying my move to a rental condo now, just so I can start this business. I think it would be more exciting to start this business this ears - like within the next 2 months. Moving right now if I do it would just be way too hectic.

I have a good friend who is a superb web designer, all I need is a freezer, packaging materials, another micro-wave oven, ingredients, and to know when the UPS store is open. But a good website will be crucial to success.

Plus, I know the woman who owns a Bakery in my neighborhood, and if I offer to give her a $3 cut for every $12 pound I sell, I think she will give me some counter space in her shop.

Plus, there is an annual Holiday food fair in the Old Market area of our town, and I could sign up for that and clear $1,000 in a single week-end. The Bakery sales could bring in $100 a week, or a little more.

Net sales could bring in $5-700 net a week (or more).

That is an extra $24,000 a year (after taxes) working about 4 hours a day in my own kitchen, doing something I love.

If I really "go commercial" and work 8-10 hours a day, use a commericial kitchen, and-or hire an assistant, I could be netting $50-75K annually (or a lot more) within 2 years, or m,aybe even the first year - who knows?

- Susan

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 3:56:38 PM

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I'd just want credit and some small slice of the pie for the name. I mean, I'm serious, if I had a fudge shop, I would name it just that, the sheer comedic essence of it all would bring in business, and the ironic loving crowd would get a kick out of eating fudge out of a fudgepacker.

I'd go there every day just to get my daily laugh and a slice of rocky road.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 4:00:24 PM

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Susan do you mind if I add one here too?

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 4:09:57 PM

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damn. i'd so be there to help you start this up. baking for a living. delerious.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 4:12:55 PM

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I will name a fudge flavor CM fudge, in honor of ya'll, if you'll buy a pound of it when I get this up and running. I am completely serious. I may make a few "mercy donations" however. Hehe.

I gotta be somewhere in a half hour, but I will check back later tonight.

I am calling my company Suzanne's Delectables - and I just designed my packaging label on another website. I am so into this idea. Thanks for the support!

Although I will still entertain other ideas for a company name. I haven't it started yet.

-Susan

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 4:15:15 PM

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i think you've obviously been thinking of it for a while, we just pushed you out of the nest. just as well the parachute popped open before you hit ground running!

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 4:16:53 PM

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I just LOVE making Holiday baked goods. But this will be a year round business.

I will start with only one item - FUDGE. But several kinds - Chocolate - with pecans, walnuts, no nuts, and Butterscotch (w/the same nuts, or no nuts) . That is enough for now.

It will come in 1, 2 and 3 pound boxes. Nice looking gold and red boxes ready for gift giving.

1 pound - $12.50

2 pounds - $16.00

3 pounds - $22.00

Plus shipping costs of $3-5. But I can say it's darn good fudge!

I will need a volunteer (or two), to make sure I can ship it cross country without it melting all over hell and gone.

Back later tonight.

- Susan

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 4:26:04 PM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: SusanofO
I am calling my company Suzanne's Delectables

I still say my idea would have attracted the right kind of people.

I'll show ya'll, gimme a few years and i'll open my own fudgepacker fudge shoppe.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 4:26:55 PM

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lol, well i'll be the international volunteer. that means i get it free right?

sigh. thinking it'd melt by the time it got here, either your season or mine is just off kilter.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 4:30:20 PM

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KMsAngel: Yes, you can be a volunteer. But you have to be totally honest with me when you get it, about the condition it arrives in and also how it tastes. And it won't be for about 2 weeks. Okay?

Rumtiger - I may still use that name, it's a good one.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/28/2007 4:44:38 PM

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Well just saying as someone who knows a thing or two about market research and consulting. (in other words, gettin payed to tell people if theyre stuff sucks or not) It'll work depending on your location, of course your product has to be really damn good in order to back up your (my?) sense of humor, otherwise the tables will turn on your ass.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/29/2007 7:56:28 AM

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Okay, even EASIER fudge:

1 box confectioner's sugar
1/2 cup Hershey's cocoa powder
1 stick butter
1/3 cup whole milk
1 tsp vanilla extract

Take 9" round or square glass or palstic pan (not bowl). Pour confectioner's sugar and cocoa powder into bowl, and mix until it's an even color and there are no significant lumps of sugar.

Cut block of butter into six squares or so, and put on top of sugar. Pour milk over butter.

Put in microwave for 2-3 minutes, or until butter has fully melted

Stir everything together until mix is consistently gooey. Don't worry about grinding out all of the tiny sugar lumps, just get it well mixed. Make sure to scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl. It will thicken somewhat as you're stirring.

Microwave again for 3-3:30 minutes. Watch carefully, and remove as soon as the entire surface of the pan is covered with bubbles. Stir briskly to remove remaining lumps, add in teaspoon of vanilla extract. Put in fridge to cool for about 5-6 hours.

Fudge is not at all heat-tolerant- it will begin to melt after sitting out at room temperature for a while, which will be very tasty and a different texture.

Takes less than an hour

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/29/2007 8:02:47 AM

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Thanks, petdave!

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/29/2007 8:07:01 AM

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Easiest fudge;

1 can sweetened condensed milk
1- 12 oz bag Ghiradelli double chocolate chips
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 tablespoon butter
Put all ingredients in glass bowl, nuke for 3 minutes, pour in pan. Done.

To make peanut butter fudge use peanut butter chips, to make white chocolate fudge use white chips, to make fantasy fudge stir in a small jar of marshmallow fluff after you nuke it. To make nut fudge add any kind of nuts you like after you nuke it.

To make gourmet flavored fudge stir in 1/4 cup of your favorite liquor after nuking the rest of the ingedients.

Try Grand Marnier and sprinkle the top with shaved candied orange rind. Try white chocolate flavored with Amaretto and sprinkled with chopped almonds. Try using dark chocolate chips, Malibu and topping with grated coconut. The combinations are endless.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/29/2007 8:11:18 AM

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Thanks, Twicehappy!

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/29/2007 7:05:59 PM

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I made a batch of petdaves version last Christmas. It is almost fool-proof as well.
Easy..almost as easy as the condensed milk version.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/29/2007 7:09:27 PM

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Good to know!

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/29/2007 8:35:28 PM

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Substitute the marshmellow cream with cream cheese and you'll have a much smoother less flaky fudge.

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RE: Fantasy Fudge - the best, easiest fudge ever! - 9/30/2007 6:27:18 AM

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Don't forget a sugar free version. A good chunk of the US is diabetic. I know since moving to NE there is a serious lack of diabetic foods here. Every year we used to buy Doug's grandma a box of candy a few times a year. Since moving here we have had to resort to ordering via the internet.

Also, make sure it is good thick fudge, the kind they sell at the stores. That way people think they are getting something for their money.

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