This Salted Caramel Marshmallow Fudge is a chocolate based fudge with mini marshmallows and salted caramel.

Life rarely goes as planned.

Take this Salted Caramel Marshmallow Fudge for example..but we will get to that later.

The plan when Kita and Erin came to town was to immediately get off the plane and we would drive to the restaurant that makes its own root beer and eat there.

Except that the night before we had a dreadful wind storm and knocked out power in a lot of places.

So instead we immediately went from the airport to the restaurant only to notice it was completely dark, none of the traffic lights near it were working, and it was of course closed.

The restaurant we built an entire trip around…was closed.

Well crap.

So my husband went and asked them when they were re-opening and they weren’t sure (the bloggers were only here for two days!) to check back sometime tomorrow.

Ugh.

So back in the car we went and luckily I had thought of backup places to go and off we went to Lunchbox Laboratory in Seattle to drink out of beakers and eat over the top food.

We were going to return to my house and I planned on us baking something.

That also didn’t happen.

Instead Kita and I discussed what we wanted to do for our podcast (we are doing one starting in January FYI).

And we discussed all sorts of blog stuff, life stuff, you name it. It was awesome.

We then went to Greek Food at Kafe Neo, also not planned and came home and watched a movie and gabbed some more.

(This was a Boston Cream Donut Milkshake with a shot of Vanilla Vodka…yeah I know, awesome)

The obligatory Space Needle in the background photo.

We got up (super early for me…since they are both EST peeps) and went to my favorite donut place Frost.

We shared a Bacon Maple Bar, Hard Cider Apple Fritter, Crossionut bites, and a Pumpkin Bavarian.

Then down to Pike Place Market to ruin Erin forever.

I told her I would introduce her to Ellenos Greek yogurt that she would go nuts over.

She agreed this stuff was the best.

Doesn’t hurt that the one flavor literally had pumpkin pie chopped up in it…large chunks of pumpkin pie.

Then we grabbed some Piroshky Piroshky to eat for later because we were still full, we ate a lot over the two days.

A lot.

Then back up towards my house to go to The Root Beer Store.

Yes there is a store that is all root beer.

This was pretty much the most awesome thing because Erin has been collecting root beer bottles since she was in 6th grade.

She had 109 bottles so far (she drinks the root beer and displays the bottles on shelves).

She figured she would find a couple.

I turned around to see the table like this.

Amazingly she found 43 bottles she didn’t own.

And she bought every one of theme…which we later had to wrap in bubble wrap and put into her suitcase (they all survived!).

The place also has root beer on tap and I couldn’t resist getting a float.

So good.

The funny thing was that Erin spent $100 on root beer and I spent $20 and the guy offered us a piece of root beer fudge for free.

Which we took but laughed at.

It was almost like those t-shirts that read “my parents went on vacation and all I got was this lousy t-shirt” moments.

But it was a we spent a fortune in root beer and all I got was a lousy piece of fudge moment.

Back at my place we broke out my liquor cabinet to find the root beer vodka to go with our root beer sampling.

We also dragged out cookbooks where I convinced them they needed the following cookbooks.

Huckleberry: Stories, Secrets, and Recipes From Our Kitchen

Baked Occasions

Robicelli’s: A Love Story, with Cupcakes: With 50 Decidedly Grown-Up Recipes

First Prize Pies: Shoo-Fly, Candy Apple, and Other Deliciously Inventive Pies for Every Week of the Year (and More).

That night we participated in Seattle Restaurant Weeks 3 for $30 (three courses for $30).

And went to Preservation Kitchen which is actually north of Seattle more towards where we live.

It was an amazing meal and we all shared but my main meal was caramelized short ribs that were fantastic.

We all have each others cooties as we all shared food the whole time there were here and they loved that my hubby was so into food as well.

In fact he was bummed he only got to do food stuff with us on Sunday and Monday night since he was at work. 🙂

Erin also proudly displayed her root beer receipt for him.

We rolled home (seriously stuffed) and watched Magic Mike (Kita had never seen it) and yes even my husband did…he thinks it’s funny.

We stayed up until 2 am my time gabbing (hubby went to bed long before).

Then up the next morning to wrap root beer and then FINALLY drive to Triple XXX for root beer and shakes (they have awesome shakes).

Then on to the airport and off to buy a bigger pants size. 🙂

Totally worth it.

So what does this have to do with fudge?

Well I originally was going to make Root Beer Float Fudge as tribute to the trip.

That was the plan.

Except in the middle of making the fudge (sugar and butter a boiling) I realize I have no white chocolate chips in the house.

Oh crap now what?

And the root beer fudge became Salted Caramel Marshmallow Fudge just like that.

I was just randomly taking stuff out of the cupboard.

The end result was fantastic and it’s a great fudge to make for the holidays because FYI only 7 more Fridays until Christmas (since it falls on a Thursday this year).

P.S. It’s a great day to buy my cookbook�Holy Sweet!

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