Turtle Bites
"This really isn't so much of a recipe as it is a method of using the caramels/brownies/chocolate frosting combo to it's best advantage!! This is a make ahead recipe that needs to set for 1-3 days before serving."
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 12
- Serves:
-
54
ingredients
-
Brownies
- 3⁄4 cup butter
- 1 1⁄2 cups sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup flour
- 1⁄2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1⁄2 cup chopped pecans
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Toppings
- 1 cup prepared chocolate frosting
- 1⁄2 cup pecans, toasted
- 12 caramels
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
directions
- Heat oven to 350°F.
- Line 54 mini muffin cups with papers.
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Brownies:
- Melt the butter.
- Beat eggs with sugar, and add vanilla, flour, cocoa, baking powder and melted butter.
- Add ½ cup of pecan pieces to mix.
- Spoon into papers filling 2/3 full.
- Bake 18 minutes or until brownies are cooked.
- Remove from oven and let set in the pans for 5 minutes before turning brownies out on wire rack to cool.
- When thoroughly cooled, frost with chocolate frosting and top with roasted pecans.
- Combine unwrapped caramels and cream in a small saucepan.
- Cook over low heat stirring constantly until caramels are melted.
- Drizzle caramel/cream mixture over cupcakes.
- Store in the fridge for 1-3 days before serving.
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Aroostook
United States
Zaar...Wow, what a place! I'm one of the old timers of Zaar. I can't count the number of wonderful dishes I cooked in the past few years since joining. Along the way I have had the pleasure of meeting several Zaar chefs. Talk about your fruits and nuts! lol. I have enjoyed meeting them all.
Family: What's to say...I have had the same sweet husband forever (Good thing....I'd hate to have to break a new one in...=) and live close to a couple of grown children. (Maybe you've met Smoke Alarm Jr. ..her brown rolls are sooo good!) Therefore, my family gets together often to enjoy each other's company and cooking. My greatest joy is six "little to tallerthanme" kids running around calling me Grammy. They wear me out! lol
For the past thirty years I have been a Special Education teacher for grades 9-12 and love it. Took some time off last year to recovery from surgery, chemotherapy and radiation for breast cancer. (Loved the radiation....I keep imagining that we are absolutely napalming the nasty cancer cells tohellandback to keep the little suckers from returning. =) My prognosis is good and now "I'm back in the saddle again". lol. Being a north country "gurl", I am happiest outside...walking, fishing, sitting in front of an outdoor fire or being on water (although in February it's a bit stiff....=0) When indoors I like to read, garden, knit, quilt and paint. During cold Maine weather I like to warm my feet on a very large ( 100 pounds of long legs and huge feet), sweet and furry golden retriever named Kerry (aka KTBRD: Kerry the big red dawg..lol) . In the summer, the dawg and I round up the grandkids, hit the local dairy bar for a Mounds Sundae that is to die for!!!=0) . Then spend a lot of long and lazy summer days at camp . All in all...Boy, Life is good! =)
