Fudge vs. Brownie — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Fudge and Brownie
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Fudge
Fudge is a type of sugar candy that is made by mixing sugar, butter and milk, heating it to the soft-ball stage at 240 °F (116 °C), and then beating the mixture while it cools so that it acquires a smooth, creamy consistency. In texture, this crystalline candy falls in between fondant icing and hard caramels.Fruits, nuts, chocolate, caramel, candies, sweets and other flavors are sometimes added either inside or on top.
Brownie
A small square of rich chocolate cake, typically containing nuts.
Fudge
A soft rich candy made of sugar, milk, butter, and chocolate or cocoa.
Brownie
A member of the junior branch of the Guide Association, for girls aged between about 7 and 10, wearing a brown uniform
For my birthday I want to join the Brownies
Fudge
A similar candy made with other flavorings
Peanut butter fudge.
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Brownie
A benevolent elf that supposedly haunts houses and does housework secretly.
Fudge
Nonsense; humbug.
Brownie
Brownie A member of the Girl Scouts from six through eight years of age.
Fudge
Having a rich chocolate flavor.
Brownie
A bar of moist, usually chocolate cake, often with nuts.
Fudge
Having pieces of fudge candy as an ingredient.
Brownie
A small sprite thought to do helpful work at night.
Fudge
To fake or falsify
Fudge casualty figures.
Brownie
A brown trout.
Fudge
To evade (an issue, for example); dodge.
Brownie
(culinary) A small square piece of rich cake, usually made with chocolate.
Fudge
To act in an indecisive manner
Always fudged on the important questions.
Brownie
(folklore) A mythical creature, a helpful elf who would secretly do people's housework for them.
Fudge
To go beyond the proper limits of something
Fudged on the building code requirements.
Brownie
(paganism) A household spirit or revered ancestor.
Fudge
To act dishonestly; cheat.
Brownie
Any of various lycaenid butterflies of the Eurasian genus Miletus.
Fudge
A type of very sweet candy or confection, usually made from sugar, butter, and milk or cream.
Have you tried the vanilla fudge? It's delicious!
Brownie
(informal) A brown trout (Salmo trutta).
Fudge
(US) Chocolate fudge.
Brownie
(informal) The widow rockfish (Sebastes entomelas), a fish in the family Sebastidae.
Fudge
(uncountable) Light or frothy nonsense.
Brownie
A girl in the first level of Girl Guides (US: Girl Scouts).
Fudge
(countable) A deliberately misleading or vague answer.
Brownie
A tall, long-necked beer bottle, made from brown coloured glass.
Fudge
A made-up story.
Brownie
A person of Arab, Indian or Hispanic descent. Sometimes used for a Native American or Pacific Islander.
Fudge
(countable) A less than perfect decision or solution; an attempt to fix an incorrect solution after the fact.
Brownie
An imaginary good-natured spirit, who was supposed often to perform important services around the house by night, such as thrashing, churning, sweeping.
Fudge
Fecal matter; feces.
Here comes the fudge!
Brownie
(folklore) fairies that are somewhat mischievous
Fudge
(intransitive) To try to avoid giving a direct answer.
When I asked them if they had been at the party, they fudged.
Brownie
Square or bar of very rich chocolate cake usually with nuts
Fudge
(transitive) To alter something from its true state, as to hide a flaw or uncertainty, deliberately but not necessarily dishonestly or immorally.
The results of the experiment looked impressive, but it turned out the numbers had been fudged.
I had to fudge the lighting to get the color to look good.
Do you fudge your age?
Fudge
To botch or bungle something.
Fudge
To cheat, especially in the game of marbles.
Fudge
Used in place of fuck.
Fudge
Nonsense; tommyrot.
Fudge
A made-up story; stuff; nonsense; humbug; - often an exclamation of contempt.
Fudge
A kind of soft candy composed of sugar or maple sugar, milk, and butter, and often chocolate or nuts, boiled and stirred to a proper consistency.
Fudge
To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness.
Fudge
To foist; to interpolate.
That last "suppose" is fudged in.
Fudge
Soft creamy candy
Fudge
Fake or falsify;
Fudge the figures
Cook the books
Falsify the data
Fudge
Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing (duties, questions, or issues);
He dodged the issue
She skirted the problem
They tend to evade their responsibilities
He evaded the questions skillfully
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