Fudge vs. Toffee — What's the Difference?

Often flavored with chocolate, vanilla, or nuts.

Sometimes coated with chocolate or nuts.

A soft, creamy candy made with sugar, butter, and milk.

A hard, brittle candy made by caramelizing sugar or molasses with butter.

Popular as a homemade gift during holidays.

Often used as a topping for desserts.

Typically served in small squares.

Known for its sticky and hard texture.

Known for its smooth texture.

Associated with English cuisine.

Fudge is a type of sugar candy that is made by mixing sugar, butter and milk, heating it to the soft-ball stage at 240 °F (116 °C), and then beating the mixture while it cools so that it acquires a smooth, creamy consistency. In texture, this crystalline candy falls in between fondant icing and hard caramels.Fruits, nuts, chocolate, caramel, candies, sweets and other flavors are sometimes added either inside or on top.

Toffee is a confection made by caramelizing sugar or molasses (creating inverted sugar) along with butter, and occasionally flour. The mixture is heated until its temperature reaches the hard crack stage of 149 to 154 °C (300 to 310 °F).

A soft rich candy made of sugar, milk, butter, and chocolate or cocoa.

A kind of firm or hard sweet which softens when sucked or chewed, made by boiling together sugar and butter, often with other ingredients or flavourings added

A similar candy made with other flavorings

Nonsense; rubbish

Nonsense; humbug.

A hard, chewy candy made of brown sugar or molasses and butter.

Having a rich chocolate flavor.

(uncountable) a type of confectionery made by boiling sugar (or treacle, etc) with butter or milk, then cooling the mixture so that it becomes hard

Having pieces of fudge candy as an ingredient.

(countable) a small, individual piece of toffee

To fake or falsify

(Northern England) any kind of sweets; candy

To evade (an issue, for example); dodge.

(transitive) To coat in toffee.

To act in an indecisive manner

Taffy.

To go beyond the proper limits of something

Caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets

To act dishonestly; cheat.

A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.

(US) Chocolate fudge.

(uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.

(countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.

A made-up story.

(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.

Fecal matter; feces.

(intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.

(transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.

To botch or bungle something.

To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.

Used in place of fuck.

Nonsense; tommyrot.

A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; - often an exclamation of contempt.

A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.

To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.

To foist; to interpolate.

Soft creamy candy

Fake or falsify;

Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);

Toffee usually has a longer shelf life than fudge due to its lower moisture content.

Yes, toffee is significantly harder and more brittle than fudge.

While less common, fudge can be melted and used as a sauce or topping.

Fudge is made with milk or cream, while toffee is typically made without these dairy additions.

Fudge is generally considered easier to make due to its lower cooking temperature and more forgiving texture.

Fudge is cooked to the soft-ball stage (235-245°F), whereas toffee reaches the hard-crack stage (295-310°F).

Yes, fudge can be flavored similarly but typically includes additional ingredients like chocolate or nuts.

Toffee is commonly used as a crunchy topping for ice cream, cakes, and cupcakes.

The main risk is cooking the sugar to too high a temperature, which can lead to burns or overly hard candy.

Traditional toffee includes butter, so it is not suitable for those with dairy allergies unless a dairy-free recipe is used.

Fudge should be kept in an airtight container to prevent drying out, while toffee should be stored at room temperature in a sealed container to keep it hard.

Fudge can be used in baking or as a filling, while toffee is often added as a crunchy texture in cookies and brownies.

Toffee generally has a higher sugar and fat content per serving compared to fudge, which may include milk to somewhat reduce these ratios.

To prevent fudge from becoming too hard, do not overcook it and beat it until it just starts to thicken.

Yes, both can be made vegan by substituting plant-based ingredients for traditional dairy components.