Easy Keto Turtle Fudge Recipe

This decadent Keto Turtle Fudge Recipe is so easy to make with only a hand full of ingredients and 10 minutes of time.  Sugar-free chocolate and an ooey, gooey delicious caramel center with a crunchy layer of pecans that is impossible to resist! Great for gift-giving and the holidays!

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There is nothing I look forward to more than the holiday season!

It’s truly the most magical time of year: decorations, spending time with friends and family and making treat after treat after treat!

Asides from my favourite holiday desserts, like my Easy Keto Pumpkin Roll, Easy Keto Cranberry Pie Dessert or Easy Keto Monster Cookies, I also enjoy creating festive dishes like this Keto White Cheddar Cranberry Jalapeno Holiday Dip, Delicious Keto Cranberry Jalapeno Meatballs in a Cranberry BBQ Sauce.

And making keto fudge is just one more easy keto holiday dessert recipe that is so much fun to make.  It’s so easy to make and I haven’t met a person yet who doesn’t love fudge.

Today I’m sharing this amazing easy Keto Turtle Fudge recipe – so decadent, so rich, so wonderfully scrumptious, you’re going to want to share it with everyone you know.

One of the things I love about this sugar-free chocolate fudge recipe is that it’s a cooked fudge but does not require a candy thermometer. It’s impossible to mess up and tastes like the fudge you buy in candy stores. Maybe even better.

There’s a lot to love about this keto turtle fudge recipe but that ooey, gooey caramel layer is my favourite. Made using either my Easy Keto Microwave Caramel Sauce or a "cheater" peanut butter/maple/caramel mixture, the caramel layer adds just the right amount of salty-sweet to make this chocolate keto fudge absolutely delicious.

Ingredients

Chocolate - This chocolate keto fudge uses 3 different types of chocolate - a 4 oz unsweetened 100% cocoa bar, a tablespoon of unsweetened cocoa powder, as well as some sugar-free chocolate chips. You can use any type of sugar-free chocolate chip from either Lakanto, ChocZero or Thrive Market.

Half-and-half - Half-and-half helps to add some extra creaminess to this easy keto holiday dessert!

Sweetener - I used powdered allulose but you could also use confectioner Swerve. Since this sugar-free chocolate fudge is stored in the refrigerator, I do not suggest using any erythritol-based sweetener as it may crystalize as it cools which will make your fudge slightly grainy. Also, make sure that the sweeter you choose is a direct 1:1 substitution to regular sugar.

Nut Butter - To add some extra nuttiness and even more creaminess to this keto turtle fudge recipe, I added some peanut butter. Feel free to use almond butter, pecan butter or cashew butter.

Pecans - You can not possibly call this turtle fudge without using pecans! The pecans are chopped and stirred into the creamy caramel layer for a nice crunchy contrast.

Caramel sauce - You have 2 options when it comes to the caramel layer. You can either choose to make my Easy Keto Microwave Caramel Sauce or use my "cheater caramel" from my keto Copycat Payday bars which is a simple combination of ½ cup peanut butter (or almond or cashew butter) with ¼ cup maple syrup and ¼ teaspoon caramel extract.

Vanilla and Salt - These two added ingredients help to round out the sweetness of the keto fudge.

Instructions

Making this Keto Turtle Fudge recipe is really easy! Here are the step-by-step directions with pictures.

Return the loaf pan to the fridge to harden for about 2-3 hours. Remove the fudge from the loaf pan and cut it into 18 squares.

Hint: I like to use a silicon loaf pan since it makes removing the chocolate keto fudge easy to remove and keeps the edges nice and smooth.

Substitutions

• White Chocolate - Use sugar-free white chocolate instead
• Nut-free - Replace the pecans with seeds and use seed butter instead of nut butter
• Dairy-free - Use coconut milk instead of the half and half and use dairy-free chocolate chips.

If you want to use different ingredients, check out my post on How to Make Keto Fudge which lists 7 different ways to make keto fudge.

Variations

Since I am a HUGE fan of fudge as well as since it is one of my favourite easy keto holiday desserts, I have made several different keto fudge flavours such as:

• Cookies and Cream Fudge
• Lemon Fudge
• Snicker's Fudge
• Salted Caramel Brownie Fudge
• Buckeye Peanut Butter Chocolate Fudge
• White Chocolate Fudge with Candied Walnuts
• 2-Ingredient Peanut Butter Fudge

Keto Turtle Fudge Recipe Tips

• always line your pan with aluminum paper that has an overhang so that you can easily remove the fudge once it solidifies or use a silicon loaf pan
• this fudge recipe is best kept in the fridge or in the freezer
• store the fudge in an airtight container in the fridge for 30 days and in the freezer for up to 6 months
• the caramel will melt at room temperature so don't leave the fudge out for too long
• if the fudge is too solid to cut, simply place it at room temperature for 5 minutes or heat a knife by running it under hot water and then wipe it dry before slicing.
• you can also freeze the fudge to make clean lines for cutting and then store it in the fridge after it has been cut.

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