First the Marula Tree, then Amarula Liqueur and now Marula Fudge

Amarula Liqueur is a product infused with the juice from the marula tree. We have taken this liqueur one step further and blended some into our traditional butter fudge. The resulting Amarula flavoured fudge has already found support amongst our fudge aficionados.

The female Marula Tree (Sclerocarya birrea) is a prolific bearer of the marula fruit. Depending upon the size of the tree, up to 500kg of fruit can be borne by a tree in any one year. The Marula Tree grows mainly in the more northern and eastern areas of South Africa and further into Southern Africa. A number of products are created from the fruit, with the best known undoubtedly being Amarala Cream Liqueur.

Marula fruit and cream are magically transformed into Amarula Liqueur. We then take that bit of magic and with a few tricks of our own, blend it with our traditional butter fudge to create our new Amarula Fudge.

Of course there is no real wizardry. Rather just some careful blending and mixing and stirring together of fine ingredients for your enjoyment

So if you are fond of Amarula and really enjoy some of the best fudge around, now is your chance to taste the best of both worlds. 

A good place to try our marula is at The Palms Market in Woodstock on a Saturday morning between 9.00am and 2.00pm. So if you are heading for the market on Saturday, we would be delighted to meet you and give you a taste of our new marula fudge.

Fudge Delivered to Your Doorstep in the Constantia Valley

Dear fudge aficionados, we would like to tell you about our fudge delivery service within the Constantia Valley.

This may be of special interest to you if you used to get your fudge from us at Porter Estate Market. We are currently not selling our range of fudges at Porter Market, so we are sure that you would be pleased to hear that we deliver 2 or more of our R35 packets free within the Constantia Valley (there may be a surcharge for the delivery of one packet).

If you prefer to come along and taste our fudges and buy your pieces and packets as before, then you are welcome to visit us at the Market at The Palms in Woodstock, where we continue to sell our fudge between 9.00am and 2.00pm on Saturday mornings. Another plus for The Palms Market is the covered parking. With autumn and wet weather approaching, you don't have to get your feet wet walking from your car to this indoor market.

early Saturday - setting up at The Palms

To order your fudge directly from us, either phone us on 021 - 715 7130 or send an email to gloriousfudge@gmail.com and let us know which flavours we can deliver.

Our range of fudge flavours may include traditional butter, brown sugar, vanilla, cranberry, coconut, honey, ginger, chocolate marshmallow, double chocolate and Wellingtons Squares [delectable fudge sandwiched between a layer of chocolate and shortbread biscuit] which could be the "plain" or "espresso coffee" variety. You may also like to order our new "vegan" fudge.

Please note that we do not always have stocks of all flavours, nor large quantities of any, so please give us a day or two for delivery. We can sometimes deliver same day and usually within 24 hours, depending upon the type or the quantity.

Not the Cheapest Fudge in Cape Town

If you shop around, we are sure that you will find cheaper fudge at some markets and shops in Cape Town. We at Fudge Glorious Fudge, don't make cheap, we don't sell cheap, we don't even like the word cheap. Cheap leaves a nasty taste in our mouths, just as cheap fudge might do in yours. So enough about cheap.

Wellington Squares - with coffee or without?

 Our fudge is more expensive because we use top ingredients and we don't take any shortcuts when we make our butter fudge. There lies the first clue. All our fudge has butter as an important ingredient. Some cheap fudge is made with margarine and then instead of stirring slowly and lovingly on the stove top, some fudge is bunged into a microwave and a few moments later, hey presto, you have grainy, sugary fudge. The sugar hasn't even had time to dissolve properly and the fudge is often a light brown or yellowish colour as the sugar hasn't had time or the right method to caramelise.

We are proud of the fact that our fudge has a relatively short shelf life (see the expiry date on the bottom of our packets). Some fudges are pumped full of preservatives, artificial colourants and flavourants with scary sounding names and formulas. We add nothing like that. Sure, our vanilla fudge has vanilla added, but it is genuine vanilla extract rather than artificial vanilla essence.

A few of the added products such as the marshmallows in marshmallow chocolate fudge, gets blended with our fudge and comes along with whatever has been used in the manufacturing process of that product, but we ourselves do not add artificial additives.

So for a superior fudge, we charge a little bit more. We are sure that you will appreciate it.

Why many Fudge Connoisseurs Claim our Fudge to be the Best Fudge in Cape Town

We thank the many fudge connoisseurs who comment so favourably to us about our fudge.They nearly all mention how smooth our fudge is. They talk to us about the golden brown colour of our more traditional fudges and the amazing flavours of our more different fudges. The ginger, the honey, the cranberry and vanilla fudges all get their favourable comments. "Where is your coconut fudge today" is a question we were asked last week. Alas, we had already sold out by the time the customer had got to Porter Market.

Golden-brown, super-smooth traditional butter fudge

The Wellington Squares are sometimes confused with the very similar "millionaire's shortbread". Millionaire's shortbread usually has a caramel filling, whilst our Wellington Squares have our traditional butter fudge sandwiched between chocolate and shortbread biscuit. A lady from England thought our Wellington Squares had caramel in the middle, but when she heard it had our smooth, creamy butter fudge instead, she bought a packet without hesitation.

"Three packets of your ginger fudge please" was another recent request. Unfortunately we had again sold out. "Get more stocks then" was a comment made by a customer keen on a certain flavour, that we did not have.

We do not like to keep large stocks though as we want to sell fudge that is as fresh as possible. Our more traditional fudges keep for more than a month and our chocolate and biscuit fudges for about 3 weeks, but even so, we turn out fresh batches weekly.

You can get some fudges in the shops which will keep for 3 months or longer, but they are pumped full of preservatives. Our fudges have no additives. We like like to make them as natural as possible for you. And that is another reason that our customers appreciate our superior fudges and we thank our regular connoisseurs for their continual support.

Where to buy some of the Best fudge in Cape Town

We don't usually say it, but our customers do. They often refer to our fudge as simply "the best they have ever tasted". And we don't like to argue with our customers... especially when they say things like that.

Today we got a call from someone who seemed a little desperate. She had bought some fudge for her mother from The Palms Market last Saturday and she, or at least her mother was in a real need of some more fudge and she couldn't wait until next Saturday. Please could we help her. It had to be our fudge, as nothing else would do.

Some of the best fudge in Cape Town

It is well documented in this blog that two of the most popular places to get our packets or pieces of fudge are either at The Palms market in Woodstock or at The Porter estate Produce Market in Tokai. Unfortunately, during this past winter, rain has prevented the market at Porter estate for operating on a number of Saturdays, but as we move into summer we hope the weather will be kind and that we will be able to be there every Saturday.

Speaking of summer, also look out for Glorious Fudge at The Natural Goods Summer Market at Canal Walk on the last Sunday of the month [excluding December] and the Waldorf Night market in Constantia on selected last Fridays of the month. So we will next be at the Natural Goods Market on Sunday 29 September 2013.

Currently, you can also get our traditional butter fudge at two outlets in the City Bowl area of Cape Town. Down at the V&A Waterfront, you can purchase pieces of our fudge from Wild Thing Africa in the Red Shed Craft Workshop. One can access the Red Shed from the one end of the food court or by going between the Cinema Noveau and the Cape Town Fish Market.

V&A Waterfront - a great place for boats, sundowners & fudge

A new spot is at the Euro Goods Store at The Palms Lifestyle Centre in Woodstock. So when we are not there during the week, you should be able to source our packetsfrom them.

We are looking at other sites, currently in the Southern Suburbs as well as the South Peninsula. So if you know of any places that might be interested, do let us know, so we can get some of the best fudge in Cape Town closer to you!

In the meantime, by prior arrangement, we can supply you directly if you live in the Southern Suburbs - generally in the area between the mountains and the railway line and between Rondebosch and Lakeside. Deliveries are free, subject to minimum orders.