White Chocolate Cookies 'n Cream Fudge

Where I'm from (the North) it gets awfully chilly in the winter time. So chilly in fact, we eat eat eat eat eat eat eat and put on lots of 'insulation' to help get us through each freezing day. Oh... that's not why we eat eat eat eat eat eat eat? We eat eat eat eat eat eat eat because we are stuck inside our homes with bad road conditions, get bored, and gorge ourselves until we are near death? Oh, that works too!

As if everyone doesn't feel guilty enough this holiday season eating cookies, candy canes, drinking rich cocoa... I've found something that puts all of that to shame.

Witness: the most decadent, rich, overwhelmingly delicious treat known to mankid- White chocolate oreo fudge. You also all know that decadent, rich, and delicious are all code words for SO NOT GOOD FOR YOU. But its ok... its worth it. I promise. You can feel the sugar overtake your body the second you look at it, and you can feel your butt tripling in size the second you pick a piece up... but when you take your first bite, you forget all of that (until you step on the scale the next day). Still... make it...

White Chocolate Cookies 'n Cream Fudge
Recipe courtesy of the Southern Living Christmas Cookbook

Ingredients:
* 1 cup sugar
* 1/4 cup butter
* 1 (5oz) can evaporated milk
* 2 (12oz) packages white chocolate morsels
* 1 (7oz) jar marshmellow cream
* 3 cups coarsely chopped Oreo cookies, divided
* Pinch of salt

To Do:
* Line a greased 9'' square pan with aluminum foil, set aside
* Combine first 3 ingredients in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil; cook 3 minutes. Remove from heat.
* Add white chocolate morsels, marshmellow cream, 2 cups crushed cookies, and salt. Stir until morsels are melted.
* Pour fudge into prepared pan. Sprinkle remaining 1 cup of cookies over fudge, gently pressing cookies into the fudge. Cover and chill until firm (about 1 to 2 hours)
* Lift uncut fudge in aluminum foil from pan, remove foil, cut fudge into squares, and indulge.