What the fudge? 🤭

Did you know the Mackinac Island is considered the Fudge Capital of the World? True story. The island was originally established as a center of fur trade, but eventually evolved into a summer destination. In the 1880’s, the Murdick family came to Mackinac and opened the island’s first real candy store. Rome Murdick was the first to make his fudge on marble slabs — a tradition that continues today (and seen if you swipe).

‼️Today, more than 13 different shops combine for a daily total of 10,000 pounds of fudge during the peak season. And all of that fudge requires more than 10 tons of sugar to be imported each week! 😮

We were glad to do our part to support the time-honored event of sampling — and buying — some of that famous island fudge. We are, apparently, now official “Fudgies.”

📷1: A look inside Murdick’s
📷2: Our haul from Joann’s (we had a hot tip that they were the best and we are easily influenced)

We tried several flavors, but ended up getting a half slice of six different varieties of the 28 they offer: double dark chocolate, double dark chocolate salted caramel, chocolate peanut butter, German chocolate, butter pecan, and orange truffle.

It was so good that we ate it all within a few days… and then went to the store in Mackinaw City and got more before we left. No regrets!

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Eating a lot of fudge while spending the weekend on Mackinac Island was inevitable, so I tried to make it into a learning experience by comparing the different types while I was at it. Overall Murdick’s fudge has a more mature and complex flavor and texture, while Ryba’s and Joann’s have softer fudge with a simpler, but still delicious, flavor. Here’s the breakdown:
~ rybasfudge is the softest and smoothest. All three flavors, chocolate peanut butter, plain chocolate, and sea salt caramel were delicious, with the sea salt caramel being the favorite in my family because of the nice balance between salty and sweet. I enjoyed the chocolate peanut butter, but if you don’t love the peanut butter flavor or want a lighter fudge, I would suggest getting a different flavor since the peanut butter mixed with the already very sweet fudge might be too rich for some people’s taste.
~ joannsfudge is still soft, but, at least in the double dark chocolate that I tried, has a slightly grainer texture. The double dark chocolate had a less sweet flavor than the regular chocolate, which is good if you don’t like things that are too sweet.
~ originalmurdicks has the biggest texture difference. It has a grainier texture, which some people thought made it better than other kinds that were smoother, and is firmer, as you can see in the video. The plain chocolate also had a more caramelly flavor.

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It was a Mackinac Island day.
We explored the middle of the island - which was beautiful, and away from the crowd of Main Street.

Still one of the prettiest places on earth.
Highly recommend, if you’ve never been.

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Today is going to be a bit of a “Throwback Thursday”!

I am planning to use one day a week to go back and share some of the things that we saw in the very beginning and things that I haven’t gotten to show you!

While in the U.P. of Michigan, we got to spend one day at Mackinac Island! It’s such an interesting place and unlike any place I’ve been before! There are no motorized vehicles on the island! Only 🐴 drawn carriages and 🚲! So it’s really fascinating! We took a carriage tour of the island which was about a 3 hour tour for us! Not only was it super informative, but it was a relaxing and beautiful way to see all the parts of the island!

One of the things that the island is known for is it’s FUDGE! Not to worry……..we boarded the ferry home with 3 lbs of fudge in about half a dozen flavors! 😋

It was an absolutely beautiful day!!!!

So tell me……who has been to Mackinac Island? 🙋🏼‍♀️

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Wow!! Yesterday was a perfect day for Jennifer and Ricky after having to postpone from 2020. Mission Point was amazing with food and service and Ste. Anne’s is always lovely. So happy I got to be a part of their day.
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We had heard a rumor that you aren’t allowed to leave Mackinac Island unless you have tried some fudge and although we enjoyed our stay we had to leave at some point so we tried the fudge. We would recommend getting a variety, because it’s all good, but Nicole preferred the salted caramel from originalmurdicks and Nate’s favorite was the peanut butter from rybasfudge
I’m thinking you can’t really go wrong!
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I might be biased, but joannsfudge is the best around ❤️
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Photo dump #2
Decided to go spend part of the day riding bikes around the island and petting all the horses and getting fudge before heading home! #mackinawisland #mackinacisland #bikemackinacisland #ridesheplers #joannsfudge ...

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