The East Indian milk cream is quite simply a milk fudge traditionally made during Christmas. Like all fudge recipes, this involves some labor of love so be prepared to stir milk and sugar over low heat until it reaches a thick paste-like consistency.

East Indian milk fudge on the table. — East-Indian Christmas Sweets Milk Fudge.

As kids’ milk fudge and marzipan are probably my absolute favorite Christmas sweets. These are sweet, milky, and absolutely delicious. Sitting with mom and filling these into molds was a fun project because the treats were always spare fudge bites.

If you are looking to make a quick version of the milk cream then you can use the Milk Cream with Condensed milk method too.

Difference between – Traditional vs Milk cream with condensed milk

The main difference between this traditional milk cream vs the one made with condensed milk is the color. The color will depend on the color of your condensed milk and how you cook it down further. So be patient and stir slowly preventing it from scorching at the bottom. Having said that, condensed milk is usually not white but already creamy in color. So that sweet will be creamier than this traditional recipe.

But with this traditional method, you start with milk you can as your base which is white. So if you be patient and stir slowly preventing it from scorching at the bottom you can have a fairly white milk cream.

Another thing you can do to reduce the cream color is to use white butter, not yellow butter such as Amul butter which is dyed with yellow.

Milk fudge on the table. — East-Indian Christmas Sweets Milk Cream or Milk Fudge.

Ingredients and substitues

Milk – its got to be whole milk. If you use skimmed milk, it will take forever to reduce and the quanitity of the fudge will be very less plus very sweet. Do not add cream to your milk because cream is high is milk fat and we want milk solids too. The disadvantage of cream is that it causes the milk solids to separate due to long cooking.
Sugar – use fine grain sugar such as caster sugar so it dissolves easily in the condensed milk without burning the milk.
Butter – unsalted white butter is highly recommended. Apart from a rich flavor butter adds that chewiness and helps separate the sugar from the pan which gives a good indication of doneness too. You can use vegetable shortening or ghee but be careful because when overcooked ghee can cause the milk fat to separate.

Nuts – I am using ground cashews, but feel free to use ground almonds as well. But, note that the milk will have an almond flavor. You can enhance the almond flavor with almond extract if you like.
Flavoring – I like using vanilla extract. In fact, I like using clean imitation vanilla essense so I can keep the fudge as while as possible

Storage

Milk is a perishable ingredient so this sweet will keep at room temperature for 3 days and in the fridge for up to a week. Usually, you will find people make this sweet just before Christmas usually the last item on the list of treats.

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