has anyone ever made fudge w/ coconut milk vs. sweetened condensed milk? I saw RR make it on oprah (w/ sw. cond. milk) and we can't do dairy but I thought--gee what about coconut milk. I googled it but recipies were sparse.

I did try my hand at it today....it didn't work as planned but it is yummy and incredible and TERRIBLE for you....so I won't post it here. If you wish you can check out the blog--- but again it is not good for you which is why I won't post it here don't want to tempt anyone unless they want to be tempted.

I just don't know if coconut milk would have the same thickness and "chewiness" that sweetened condensed milk would. I did, though, find several recipes for making your own sweetened condensed milk...and in a couple of places, people said they had used soy milk powder instead of powdered milk, so that might be a better idea.

Here's one recipe; most of them looked similar to it. I would bet sweetening and reducing rice milk or almond milk would work well, too.

My other concern would be the higher amount of saturated fat in coconut milk vs sweetened condensed milk.

This website says Cream of Coconut works.