![]() ![]() No, this fudge does not taste like maple. It’s deeply chocolatey, not too sweet, with caramel-y base notes thanks to pure maple syrup. This fudge recipe is exactly what I hoped those giant tins were filled with. ![]() The vanilla flavor is so bold it smacks you in the face with the scent of marshmallows and orchids. I recently found my dream vanilla in Alec’s Tahitian vanilla bean ice cream. It tastes just like what I dreamt of when I was a kid. The first taste I had of Jeni’s green mint chip actually gave me goosebumps. But that’s why I’m such a die-hard fan of Jeni’s ice cream. I mean, it’s a lot to ask of a scoop to taste like all your childhood fantasies. When I was finally able to taste all the stuff I spent so much time dreaming about, most of it didn’t live up to the expectations I had in my head. (Most of those allergies magically went away in adulthood.) Instead, I’d stick my head in the freezers, fridges, and 10-pound bags of rainbow sprinkles and sniff (probably a health code violation, now that I think of it). I can clearly remember how everything in that store smelled, from the giant tubs of icing for the ice cream cakes to the dipping cabinets filled with 31-plus flavors, and especially those cardboard boxes. I was allergic to dairy and eggs and almost everything else as a kid. What I didn’t spend much time doing was eating ice cream. Weirdly, my favorite things to do were flatten, stack, and tie cardboard boxes, and stack and unstack giant six-pound tins of hot fudge-really foreshadowing my current fondness for spreadsheets and crisply-cut painters’ tape labels. (Time really drags when you’re a kid doing something you don’t want to.) After finishing up my homework, I’d try to keep myself entertained with whatever I could find. I’d hang out there after school for what felt like an eternity, but was probably just a couple of hours. Some of my earliest food memories happened while I was killing time in the back of my parent's Baskin Robbins as a kid. ![]()
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