{"id":1409,"date":"2025-12-21T23:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2025-12-21T23:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T23:19:12","slug":"this-grandmas-fudge-recipe-was-so-good-she-put-it-on-her-gravestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cupcake.website\/?p=1409","title":{"rendered":"This Grandma\u2019s Fudge Recipe Was So Good, She Put It On Her Gravestone"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A headstone in a Utah cemetery made headlines a few years ago for an extremely sweet reason: In addition to the birth and death dates for Wade and Kathryn Andrews, the marker prominently features a recipe for \u201cKay\u2019s Fudge.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

\u201cShe would write poetry, and she would take fudge whenever people got together,\u201d Janice Johnson said of her mother, Kathryn, who went by Kay, to Utah’s Fox 13 in 2021.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

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Meg Smith<\/p>\n

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When Wade passed away in 2000, Kay helped select images to engrave on their joint headstone representing her husband\u2019s life (an airplane to honor his Air Force service and a graduation cap to reflect his career as a sociology professor, for instance). To keep things balanced on the monument, her children asked Kay how she would like to be remembered. Her answer? Her famous fudge recipe.\n<\/p>\n

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How to Make Kay’s Fudge Recipe\u00a0 <\/span> <\/h2>\n

Of course, we had to try it. We tasked Meg Smith (aka @megsescapades<\/a>) with testing the iconic recipe\u2014and it\u2019s just as wonderful as you\u2019d expect.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n

Since the recipe itself doesn\u2019t include a lot of detail, Smith shared some tips and tricks from her experience:\n<\/p>\n