Vanilla Fudge (The Best)

If you're looking for the best fudge recipe, here is the one for vanilla fudge.

1 cup heavy cream
2 cups sugar
1 stick salted butter (4 oz)
1 tablespoon light corn syrup
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract

Combine heavy cream, sugar, butter, and corn syrup in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Stir constantly with a wooden spoon until sugar dissolves and butter is melted. Wash down sides of pot with a pastry brush to dissolve sugar crystals.
Bring to a boil and cook until mixture reaches soft-ball stage, or 238 degrees on a candy thermometer. Remove pan from the heat and stop the cooking by plunging pot in a water bath for 1 minute. Add vanilla, but do not stir.
When the thermometer reads 110 degrees, mix fudge with a wooden spoon until creamy.
Spoon into a greased 8 x 8 baking pan. Let cool, then cut into squares.

Yield: 1 lb.