Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A fudgelike confection of brown sugar, cream or milk, and chopped nuts.
Wiktionary
- n. A fudge made from brown sugar, butter, milk, and nuts.
WordNet 3.0
- n. fudge made with brown sugar and butter and milk and nuts
Etymologies
- Variant of panocha. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Toss up between a tangy lemon cream cheese and a caramel-y penuche.”
Flirty Aprons’ Frosted Cupcake Apron, reviewed - and a giveaway! | Baking Bites
“Mini yellow cupcakes dunked in a penuche-like caramel glaze!”
“Toast the nuts for the penuche in dry skillet over medium heat until they turn slightly brown.”
“I brought back from Vermont a pound each of chocolate and penuche fudge for office sharing and have been industriously monitoring which is going faster.”
“The results are surprising: although the chocolate is maintaining a consistent edge, the penuche is holding its own.”
“I went with a penuche frosting recipe suggested by Cupcake Project, originally from Southern Food on About.com.”
“Here's what I'm going to do, based on an idea from Three Tarts in the Trib yesterday: one regular pumpkin pie and one with a layer of penuche on top.”
“Cupcakes Take The Cake: Apple spice cupcakes with caramel penuche frosting skip to main”
“Apple spice cupcakes with caramel penuche frosting”
“Cool shop with a nice selection of old stuff mixed with newer high-end/boutique chocolates, and they also make their own penuche!”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘penuche’.
-
Sugar
sugar, sugar cube, sugar of lead, The Sugarcubes, table sugar, sucrose, sugar cane, sugar beet, brown sugar, sugar alcohol, sugar of milk, sugar orchard and 129 more...
-
confectionary
lollies sweets
caramel gets 48 hits
chocolate gets 112 hits
nonpareil 83 hitsconfectionary, chocolate, chew, alcorza, taffy, lolly, sweets, blackball, bonbon, brickle, bubblegum, cachou and 137 more...
-
Words I Learned on FreeRice.com
A place for me to keep all these weird words, whether I guessed them correctly or not.
pennoncel, serval, tautological, redact, ganef, candent, shaitan, bifid, osteal, ensiform, helve, ecdysis and 100 more...
-
new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
-
Seven Letters of Joy
tertile, retinol, opacity, ceilidh, opaline, doughty, luddite, languor, buccula, sillage, delphic, surfeit and 32 more...
-
Food for Thought
A breaded foray of words
lady, appanage, companion, penuche, pastille, pantry, panicle, panocha, pannier, panatela, panada, panada and 87 more...
-
Upplucked
Yom.
apricot, macadamia, flan, cheesecake, sushi, sprouts, marmalade, chai, smoothie, cupcake, lasagna, spirulina and 40 more...
-
candy
mint, bonbon, taffy, sweets, sugarcoat, dragee, fudge, candyfloss, sugarplum, truffle, fondant, comfit and 30 more...
-
Food and Drink
And all things pertaining.
vittle, tine, piss, mingo, abstemious, tisane, cornucopia, tipple, wassail, decoct, corpulent, stout and 19 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for penuche.

Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.