Vegan Panamanian Chocolate Fudge for New Year's Day and Every Day

Summary: My family's recipe for Vegan Panamanian Chocolate Fudge deliciously opens each new year, sweetens other days and recalls my father's stay in Panama.

Equal Exchange, a for-profit, Fairtrade-certified, worker-owned cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, southeastern Massachusetts, describes its bestseller Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate 80% Cacao as "perfectly balanced to allow the true chocolate flavor of the Panamanian beans to shine" (https://shop.equalexchange.coop/products/organic-panama-extra-dark-chocolate-80-cacao); Panama Extra Dark, number nine from top of bestselling stack, number five from bottom: Equal Exchange, via Facebook May 27, 2022

My family's recipe for vegan Panamanian chocolate fudge sweetens our menu for New Year's Day, deliciously appears throughout the year and recalls my father's stay in Panama.

My Family's Recipe for Vegan Panamanian Chocolate Fudge

Ingredients:

six 2.8-ounce bars of Equal Exchange Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate
Or: Equal Exchange Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate 80% Cacao

one 11.25-ounce can of sweetened condensed coconut milk

Preparation:

1. Spray 8 x 8 pan with coconut oil non-stick cooking spray.
Set aside.

2. Fill the bottom pot of a double boiler with 2 inches of water.
Place pot on burner at low heat and bring to a simmer.

3. While water is simmering, break chocolate bars into sections and place in top pot of double boiler.
Pour sweetened condensed coconut milk over broken bars.

4. Set top pot on lower pot. Stir constantly, over low heat, until chocolate pieces and condensed coconut milk have melted. Gently blend until smooth.

5. Pour mixture into pan.
Place pan in refrigerator and allow to set, at least one hour.

6. Cut into desired-size pieces (usually rectangles or squares) when fudge is cool.

Vegan Chocolate Fudge excels as an attractive, delicious dessert; Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008, 12:33, image of vegan chocolate fudge: Veganbaking.net, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons

Acknowledgment

My special thanks to talented artists and photographers/concerned organizations who make their fine images available on the internet.

Dedication

This post is dedicated to the memory of our beloved blue-eyed brother, Charles, who guided the creation of the Met Opera and Astronomy posts on Earth and Space News. We memorialized our brother in "Our Beloved Blue-Eyed Brother, Charles, With Whom We Are Well Pleased," published on Earth and Space News on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, an anniversary of our beloved father's death.

Image credits:

Equal Exchange, a for-profit, Fairtrade-certified, worker-owned cooperative headquartered in West Bridgewater, Plymouth County, southeastern Massachusetts, describes its bestseller Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate 80% Cacao as "perfectly balanced to allow the true chocolate flavor of the Panamanian beans to shine" (https://shop.equalexchange.coop/products/organic-panama-extra-dark-chocolate-80-cacao); Panama Extra Dark, number nine from top of bestselling stack, number five from bottom: Equal Exchange, via Facebook May 27, 2022 @ https://www.facebook.com/equalexchange/posts/10160139085393086; via Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10160139085333086&set=pb.100064906053520.-2207520000

Vegan Chocolate Fudge excels as an attractive, delicious dessert; Saturday, Dec. 20, 2008, 12:33, image of vegan chocolate fudge: Veganbaking.net. CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vegan_Chocolate_Fudge.jpg; Veganbaking.net, CC BY SA 2.0 Generic, via Flickr @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/31104779@N02/3618735332