Sweet Foodie Options To Make Or Bake This Holiday Season

This #SplendaHoliday sponsored post has been compensated on behalf of #CollectiveBias and its advertiser. As always, my love of foodie options are my own.

Do you like sweet foodie options? Because I know I do. And with all the hustle and bustle of the holiday season; nobody wants to worry about letting out that bustle. So get ready for a holiday recipe to savor all the options a waistline could want. 

But first…are you ready to enter this awesome giveaway? One winner will take home a $500 gift card to Walmart!

J&J Holiday Baking with Splenda
While we all may eat differently throughout the year, the holidays often put us in a conundrum. We want to rekindle tasty memories of traditional recipes. But in some cases, recipes just aren’t the same without the sugar, fat, and carb-laden ingredients Grandma used. For example? Try making fudge with a sugar substitute!

Enter the SPLENDA® Sweet Swaps™ Initiative where the goal is to help make smarter, more balanced decisions while living a healthy lifestyle. And with the SPLENDA® Sugar Blend, its 50/50 mixture with real sugar allows for that functional property some recipes need. Such as browning, moisture, texture, and especially with homemade fudge, the volume required.

Ready to get your own SPLENDA® Sugar Blend? Then the next time you’re shopping at Walmart you can pick it up in the sugar section of the baking aisle. They also have a SPLENDA® Brown Sugar Blend that would be equally advantageous to swap into your holiday recipes.

I actually admit to happening by this miraculous gifting wonder by mistake. One Christmas season, I didn’t allow my fudge to boil long enough to set properly. And as a result we ended up eating a 9×13 pan of Fudge with a spoon.

It was divine, and lead to an even more divine inspiration. Creating our own Fudge Sauce. The kind that tastes like the platter we want to inhale but know we shouldn’t. And one that now that allows us to  pour, smear, drizzle and dollop on everything the holidays laid before us.

To begin, you can find the SPLENDA® Sugar Blend at Walmart. Do note that this blend dissolves much faster than using only regular sugar. So while you may be used to hustling with homemade fudge because it sets so fast, now you’ll have to be watchful or you’ll overheat it. While this recipe has already been converted, this Sugar-to-SPLENDA® conversion chart can help you with your own recipes.

Pour just enough water {2-3 tbsp} into a medium saucepan and add your SPLENDA® Sugar Blend over a medium-low heat. As soon as its dissolved, stir in your evaporated milk and then add the softened butter. Stir 30 seconds to melt, and remove from heat.

At this point, you can stir in your optional fudge ingredients. For this batch, I briskly stirred in 1 bag of semi-sweet chocolate morsels and 5-7oz of marshmallow fluff to melt. Then stir in 1 tsp vanilla. Without delay, pour into heat resistant and seal-able holiday containers or mason jars.

And now you’re ready to gift awesomeness! Or feel free to keep said chocolate wonder to smear, spread, and spoon to your hearts delight. Whatever your choice…this was like keeping memories in a jar for us.

Sauce will thicken as it cools. If serving immediately, make sure to chill for 1 hour before serving. And if stored, this fudge sauce will need to be refrigerated. You will find a printable recipe below, and don’t forget enter the giveaway above. You can also check out the SPLENDA® website as well as look for more great recipe ideas on Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook too!