Recursive searching returns undefined

I was just practicing some native Javascript and came across this problem. I’m building a comments widget and trying to implement a ‘reply’ button. For this I have to iterate through some n number of nested comments to find the correct one and push the reply to it’s ‘responses’ attribute. This is my code so far:

 const recursiveSearch = (object, target) => {
    if(object.id === target) return object;

    let result;
    if(object.responses.length > 0) {
     object.responses.forEach(response => {
          if(response.id === target) {
              result = response;
              console.log('match found')
              console.log(response)
              return response
          } 
          
          else if(response.responses.length > 0) recursiveSearch(response, target) 
      })   
    };

    console.log('result Is')
    console.log(result)

    return result

}

The logs show the expected behavior just fine but when looking at the end return statement is undefined. Any way to get around this?