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Vegan Chocolate Peppermint Fudge

Updated Mar 21, 2019  /  Published Dec 20, 2017
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Chocolate Peppermint Fudge

Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com

You guys, I am just delighted with this vegan chocolate peppermint fudge!

I mean, the fact that it’s peppermint already tells half the story, cos peppermint is super awesome, but then add the words ‘chocolate’ and ‘fudge’ and there’s a whole other level of excitement brewing!

Ever since I made these Jaye has been making regular trips to the fridge to snack on them. They are soooo good.

The recipe is based on my chocolate peanut butter fudge but uses cashew butter instead of peanut butter and adds in a bit of peppermint and voila!

Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com

Cashew butter is perfect for this as it’s quite neutral in flavor so it doesn’t compete with the peppermint and chocolate flavors but just blends beautifully and creates a wonderful texture.

And of course you can’t beat the crushed peppermint candy canes on top!

Although….. you do have to watch your teeth with that hard candy! I’m a big fan of hard candy but Jaye not so much, so he was scraping his candy canes off the top of his fudge before eating it.

It looks super pretty but if you have sensitive teeth/don’t like hard candy, you can also just leave it off.

Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com

This recipe is sooo easy, so it’s perfect for holidays when you’re busy with friends and family, but still want to whip up some treats.

It’s just 3-ingredients (plus crushed candy canes) and super quick to make.

The best thing is that the fudge has this sort of praline thing going for it – the cashew nut butter isn’t entirely smooth – so there are these pretty little pieces of cashew that don’t mix properly and show up in the chocolate. So it’s smooth fudge, but also not, more like praline.

Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com

So I think you and this vegan chocolate peppermint fudge are going to be very good friends! It is:

  • Super easy
  • 3-ingredients
  • Crazy delicious
  • Peppermint flavored
  • Creamy

Keep the fudge in the fridge so it stays nicely set and serve cold directly from the fridge. The chocolate isn’t tempered once it’s been melted down and reset so it melts a bit on your fingers as you eat it, all part of the fun!

Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com

So how do you like this vegan chocolate peppermint fudge? Let us know in the comments! And if you make the recipe please rate it and let us know how it worked out for you.

For more delicious fudge recipes, check out these options:

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  3. Microwave Peanut Butter Fudge (super easy!)
  4. Easy 5-Ingredient Pumpkin Fudge

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Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Creamy and crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays! #vegan #lovingitvegan #peppermintfudge #fudge #vegandesserts #glutenfree #dairyfree | lovingitvegan.com

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Vegan peppermint fudge

Vegan Peppermint Fudge


  • Author: Alison Andrews
  • Prep Time: 15 mins
  • Total Time: 15 mins
  • Yield: 20
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Super easy 3-ingredient vegan chocolate peppermint fudge topped with crushed peppermint candy canes. Crazy delicious and ideal for the holidays!


Ingredients

  • 1 and 1/2 cups (375g) Cashew Butter (store-bought or homemade)
  • 2 and 1/4 cups Chopped Vegan Chocolate or Chocolate Chips
  • 1 tsp Peppermint Extract
  • Crushed Candy Canes (optional)

Instructions

  1. Add the cashew butter and chocolate to a microwave safe bowl.
  2. Microwave in 30-second intervals bringing it out to stir every 30-seconds until the chocolate and cashew butter is melted and well mixed together.
  3. Add the peppermint extract and stir in.
  4. Transfer to a parchment lined 8×8 square dish and smooth down.
  5. Add crushed candy canes to the top.
  6. Refrigerate until set.
  7. When set lift the whole block of fudge out by lifting the parchment paper. Cut into squares.
  8. Keep stored in the fridge and serve cold directly from the fridge.

Notes

*Use a good tasting vegan chocolate to chop up for this recipe. It needs to be a sweet variety of vegan chocolate, a bitter dark chocolate wouldn’t work for this. Vegan chocolate chips would also work fine in this recipe, but it’s not what I used here.

  • Category: Dessert, Gluten-Free
  • Method: Microwave
  • Cuisine: Vegan

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1 Square (of 20)
  • Calories: 233
  • Sugar: 4.9g
  • Sodium: 57mg
  • Fat: 18.4g
  • Saturated Fat: 7.4g
  • Carbohydrates: 10.4g
  • Fiber: 3.6g
  • Protein: 5.7g

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About the Author

Hi I'm Alison Andrews, I'm the voice and cook behind Loving It Vegan and the author of Simple Vegan Dinner Recipes, a digital program created so that you always know the answer to: 'What's For Dinner?' I love making delicious vegan food and creating vegan versions of all your old favorites, so that you’ll never feel like you’re missing out. Find out more about me here.

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  1. Laurel*~ says

    January 05, 2018 at 3:30 pm

    Hi Allison. I was wondering if I could use Almond Butter instead. I don’t have any Cashew Butter. Thank you!! Have a Gratephul Day *~ Peace.

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    • Alison Andrews says

      January 05, 2018 at 3:53 pm

      Hi Laurel – almond butter with chocolate does make an amazing fudge, but the flavor is very almondy, so it doesn’t work super well with peppermint. The flavor of almonds is too strong. So it makes a delicious chocolate almond fudge, but not a great peppermint fudge. So if you want to make a fudge with almond butter, I would follow the recipe but leave out the peppermint. 🙂 Cashew butter works best for this recipe as it has a more neutral flavor so allows the peppermint flavor to come through.

      Reply
  2. Esther says

    December 21, 2017 at 11:20 am

    Could you give me a better idea of what to use for vegan chocolate? Chocolate chips or dark baking chocolate? What brand do you use?

    Reply
    • Alison Andrews says

      December 21, 2017 at 11:37 am

      Hi Esther, sure thing! I use slabs of regular dark chocolate that happen to be vegan. Stuff that tastes great when you eat it, so not the bitter dark chocolate, the sweet variety of dark chocolate. A bitter dark chocolate wouldn’t work for this. I have used Lindt in the past, their ‘swiss classic’ plain dark chocolate is vegan and works very well for this. I used Lindt when I made the chocolate peanut butter fudge that this recipe is based on. Right now I’m based in South Africa so I don’t think any of the brands I’m using now (local brands) will have overseas counterparts (not sure where you are). But basically, it doesn’t need to be chocolate chips (though it could be if that’s easy to get hold of for you), or baking chocolate, just regular slabs (around 4-5 slabs) of regular good tasting vegan chocolate. Thanks for the question, I will add more info in the notes section of the recipe. 🙂

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