Decadent Easy Salted Cinnamon Fudge Recipe for the Holidays

Ready for holiday treats? 🍫 This easy salted cinnamon fudge is a must-try! Rich, creamy, and with a hint of spice, it’s the perfect sweet gift for friends, neighbors, or yourself. Just melt chocolate with butter and condensed milk, add cinnamon, and let it cool. Sprinkle a bit of salt, and you’re done! Everyone will love it.

A plate of easy salted cinnamon fudge squares, each topped with a sprinkle of kosher salt, arranged neatly for serving.

These decadent morsels of easy salted cinnamon fudge are all you need to satisfy your sweet tooth this holiday season. These bite-sized pieces melt in your mouth and are the perfect item for edible gifts for your friends. I first got the idea from Giada’s TV show on Food Network and then tested the recipe on both my friends at church and my husband’s coworkers.

Since I got rave reviews each time, I decided the recipe was a keeper and perfect for sharing during Christmas! Let me show you how easy and inexpensive it can be to make your friends and neighbors an irresistible gift:

How to Make Easy Salted Cinnamon Fudge

Making easy salted cinnamon fudge at home is simpler than you might think. Gather all your ingredients first to make the process smooth and stress-free.

Step 1: Prepare Your Ingredients

Start by getting your butter ready. Cutting it into small pieces will help it melt evenly as you begin.
Start with 3 tablespoons of room-temperature butter cut into small pieces. Place it into a medium-sized glass bowl.

Three tablespoons of cubed, room-temperature butter placed in a medium-sized glass bowl, ready for melting.

Step 2: Add the Sweetened Condensed Milk

Now pour in a can of sweetened condensed milk, 2 teaspoons of cinnamon, and 1 teaspoon of vanilla extract.

Just a side note: I used non-fat sweetened condensed milk to make this one time, and it tasted just as good as the regular version.

Pouring sweetened condensed milk into the bowl with butter, followed by adding cinnamon and vanilla extract.

Step 3: Melt the Chocolate

Now for the good stuff! Pull out a bag of bittersweet dark chocolate morsels. You will need about 2 cups in total. Find a bag that advertises more than 60% cacao in the morsels because this will give the cinnamon fudge that deep, chocolatey flavor. Ghiradelli chocolate is always an option, but I was able to find Kroger’s store brand and that worked just as well for half the price.

Adding two cups of dark chocolate morsels to the mixture in the glass bowl, preparing for melting over steam.

Pour the chocolate into the bowl and then slowly heat the contents via steam from a sauce pan on your stove. You want to heat the easy salted cinnamon fudge slowly and thoroughly, and steam does that best. If you put the fudge directly into a pot, it can often burn.

The glass bowl containing the fudge mixture placed over a saucepan of simmering water, melting the ingredients gently.

Step 4: Stir Until Smooth

Take your time as you gently stir the cinnamon fudge with a sturdy spatula. Keep it moving steadily to ensure the chocolate melts evenly and blends beautifully with the other ingredients. You’ll know it’s ready when the mixture becomes silky, shiny, and smooth. Try to make sure it is perfectly spreadable and free of any lumps. Patience here pays off for that flawless, creamy texture everyone will love!

A spatula stirring the melted fudge mixture until it becomes silky, shiny, and lump-free.

Step 5: Pour the Fudge into the Pan

Pour the easy salted cinnamon fudge into an 8×8 glass pan that is lined with parchment paper. Spray the parchment paper with cooking spray and then pour the fudge on top, leaving some of the parchment paper hanging out. Using the spatula, smooth the top of the cinnamon fudge and press it into the corners of the pan. Sprinkle Kosher salt on top and let it cool in the refrigerator for at least 2 hours.

Pouring the smooth fudge mixture into a parchment-lined 8×8 glass pan, spreading it evenly with a spatula.

Step 6: Cut and Serve

When you’re ready to serve, simply pull out the easy salted cinnamon fudge using the parchment paper handles and then cut the block into bite-sized pieces.

Using a knife to cut the set fudge into bite-sized squares on a cutting board.

Gift Ideas for Easy Salted Cinnamon Fudge

How fun would it be to package these easy salted cinnamon fudge pieces up in cute little boxes with ribbons and give them out to all your friends over the holidays? A colorful tin full of these beauties will definitely spread Christmas cheer! For more edible gift ideas, check out my peanut butter M&M bars and Almond Joy cookies. There are also a bunch of desserts listed on the recipe index. Happy cooking, y’all!

You can also follow my Christmas Cookies Board on Pinterest!

Fudge squares placed in decorative boxes with ribbons, prepared as holiday gifts.