The House-Made Dessert Buc-Ee's Fans Say You Should Never Skip

Make a pit stop at any Buc-ee's and there's one homemade dessert that smells so delicious, it's too good to pass up. This mega travel center with Texas roots is perhaps best known for its Buc-ee's Beaver Nuggets (that you can also buy online) and its clean bathrooms, but if you pass-up the rich, sweet, and chocolaty aroma of fudge that it makes on a daily basis to tempt both travelers and the locals, you might be missing out according to online reviewers and fans. Fudge from a gas station may sound a little shady, but when you walk into Buc-ee's, you can see workers making slabs of this sweet treat from scratch. 

Buc-ee's makes hundreds of pounds of fudge each day, and some of the biggest fans of this offering share on blogs and social media that it's among their top ten must-try foods. Why? One fan of this creamy dessert shared in a video on Facebook that what sets it apart is its texture. As they put it, "It's the perfect texture: Nice, soft, and chewy." Others on Reddit claim that Buc-ee's "has good fudge in so many flavors, and good fudge is just something you don't see too often". They seem to be big fans of the chocolate caramel nugget and peanuts and the Butterfinger in particular. They added that "Each square is like 2 inches by 2 inches," meaning that it's a really thick fudge.

There are at least 20 different types of fudge to choose from, but per 13WMAZ News, when it comes to the most popular flavors, the Tiger Butter and Chewy Praline seem to rise to the top. Tiger butter fudge is a combination of white chocolate, peanut butter, and milk chocolate fudge swirled together. The texture is soft but not too much, and the flavor is the perfect combo of sweet, nutty, and salty. A square of tiger butter fudge will run you $4.49, but it's large enough to share with two or three other people, depending on your sweet tooth. 

Buc-ee's also has some unique flavors like banana pudding, which Buzz Finance called out for its "wafer flavor," as well as blueberry cheesecake, key lime pie, cookies and cream, peanut butter, and rocky road, to name a few. If you're paralyzed by the amount of choice on offer, consider getting a sampler box. Those will run you about $15 and are generously sized. The box is Buc-ee's branded, and while the pieces of fudge are small, there are a lot of them, so you can get a nice feel for the flavors you may want more of. If you can't make it to a Buc-ee's for fudge, you could find a third-party purveyor and order a sampler box online. Better yet, you could try making Daily Meal's own 4-ingredient fudge or our mint chocolate chip fudge at home to tide you over until your next highway adventure.