Easy Bailey’s Fudge Recipe (2024)

This Bailey’s fudge recipe makes the best fudge I’ve ever had! Melt-in-your-mouth Irish cream fudge that you can put together in no time.

This amazing Bailey’s fudge recipe is made with only four ingredients and is one of the best treats you can imagine. Two sorts of chocolate – semisweet and dark, sweetened condensed milk and Bailey’s Irish Cream come together to create a homemade fudge that’s bursting with flavor.

And yes! You can taste the Bailey’s! That’s one of the best parts of this recipe. On top of that, the texture is just perfect: creamy without being too soft or smudgy, and not at all dry or crumbly, which I like best!

The best sweet treat for the holiday season or to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. This easy recipe also makes the perfect gift for anyone with a sweet tooth.

And if you already have that opened bottle, why not try another delicious recipe to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? Try this excellent Baileys Bundt Cake, Bailey’s Muffins, or Bailey’s Hot Chocolate.

And once you’re at it, make this Strawberry Fudge with Marshmallow Fluff as well. Otherwise, you will have to hide the boozy Bailey's fudge so they won’t eat it.

Recipe ingredients

• Chocolate: You may use only dark or a mixture of dark and semi-sweet chocolate. I prefer to mix the two; using only semi-sweet chocolate would make the fudge too sweet; both the booze and the sweetened condensed milk are already very sweet.
  • For the most intense chocolate flavor, use only dark chocolate with at least 72% cocoa (See Expert Tips).
• Sweetened condensed milk: Thick and very sweet milk sold in cans; the kind of milk you use to make dulce de leche. Please don’t confuse it with evaporated milk; that is a different product (See Expert Tips).
  • Make Condensed Milk Biscuits or Condensed Milk Rice Pudding next!
• Bailey’s: Irish cream liqueur – an alcoholic drink made with Irish whisky, cream, and cocoa.
• Optional: A sprinkle of best-quality flaky sea salt. You don’t have to sprinkle the chocolate fudge with it, it will be amazing without it, but if you do, you will know what I mean. It just brings the treat to a whole new level.

See the recipe card for full information on ingredients and quantities.

How to make fudge with Bailey’s?

• Grease an 8-inch/ 20 cm square baking pan and line it with parchment paper. Leave an overhang on two sides; it will make it easier to remove the set fudge from the tin.
• Chop the chocolate very finely. I prefer to chop it roughly and then process it shortly in the food processor; it saves time, and the finer the chocolate is, the faster it will melt.

• Step #1: Melt the chocolate at bain-marie on very low heat. As there is a lot of chocolate, I prefer to do it in two batches, but if your pan and bowls are large enough, you can do that in one batch.
• Step #2: Mix the melted chocolate with ½ cup of Baileys and sweetened condensed milk.

• Step #3: Stir with a spoon until thick and combined.
• Step #4: Pour the fudge mixture into the prepared pan, cover, and refrigerate until set, at least 5 hours, better overnight.
• Remove the dessert from the tin and cut it into small squares. If desired, sprinkle it lightly with coarse salt.

Expert Tips

Melt chocolate at bain-marie (water bath)

• You will need a medium saucepan and a heatproof bowl that fits on top of it.
• Half-fill the saucepan with water, place it on the stovetop, and bring it to a simmer.
• Place the finely chopped chocolate in the heatproof bowl and place this bowl on top of the saucepan, ensuring it doesn’t touch the water. Let the chocolate melt slowly on barely simmering water, often stirring with a metal spoon.
• Ensure that the water underneath the bowl of chocolate is barely simmering and never comes to a boil. If the water gets too hot, remove the saucepan from the heat and continue stirring the chocolate off the heat until melted.

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