How To Make Turtle Candy
Make something irresistible with this turtle candy recipe. Pecans are baked, slathered in caramel sauce, and topped with melted chocolate.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 3cupswhole pecans
- ½cupbutter
- 1cupbrown sugar
- ½cupcorn syrup
- dash salt
- 7ozsweetened condensed milk
- ½tspvanilla
- 1½cupschocolate chips
- ½tspvegetable oil
Instructions
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Place pecans in a single layer on a baking sheet. Bake at 350 degrees F for about 10 minutes or till lightly browned and fragrant. Let cool.
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Arrange in clusters of 3 to 4 on silicone liners or parchment paper.
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Combine butter, brown sugar, corn syrup, and salt in a 6-quart pot. Bring to a boil over medium heat. Add the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla.
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Continue cooking and stirring till mixture reaches 235 to 240 degrees F.
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Quickly spoon the caramel over the pecan clusters, making sure caramel is touching each of the pecans. Let sit to harden.
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Melt the chocolate chips and oil in the microwave at half power, stirring often till smooth. Spoon chocolate on top of each layer of caramel.
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Let sit for 1 to 2 hours, or till hardened.
Nutrition
- Calories: 173.61kcal
- Fat: 11.23g
- Saturated Fat: 3.79g
- Trans Fat: 0.12g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 4.21g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 1.91g
- Carbohydrates: 18.12g
- Fiber: 1.04g
- Sugar: 16.72g
- Protein: 1.67g
- Cholesterol: 10.05mg
- Sodium: 81.71mg
- Calcium: 37.02mg
- Potassium: 60.54mg
- Iron: 0.36mg
- Vitamin A: 25.89µg
- Vitamin C: 0.29mg
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