Turtle Cake
"This is an easy, delicious cake. It keeps well and is a great addition to any pic-nic or potluck."
photo by MoreSpicePlease
- Ready In:
- 1hr 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 9
- Serves:
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12
ingredients
- 1 (14 ounce) bag caramels
- 5 ounces evaporated milk (not sweetened condensed milk)
- 1 (18 ounce) box German chocolate cake mix, with pudding (the one that uses oil)
- 3 eggs (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 1⁄4 cup oil (1/2 the quantity called for by the cake mix)
- 1 1⁄3 cups water (or as called for by your cake mix)
- 3⁄4 cup butter, room temp
- 12 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 2 cups pecans, chopped
directions
- Heat oven to 350*.
- Line 13x9 pan with foil and lightly grease the foil.
- In small saucepan, slowly heat caramels and milk stirring until melted.
- Prepare cake.
- Beat on low 1 minute, add butter, beat on hi 2 minutes.
- Spread 1/2 the batter in pan.
- Bake for 13 minutes.
- Pour caramel mix over cake; spread to edges.
- Sprinkle with 1 cup choc chips and 1 cup pecans.
- Spoon remaining batter over; spread to edges.
- Bake for 40 minutes or until cake puffs up around the sides of pan and springs back when touched.
- Set the cake on a wire rack to cool.
- Melt remaining choc chips; spread over cooled cake; sprinkle with remaining pecans.
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Reviews
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I have made this several times in the past. I took it to work one time and it didn't last too long. If you love those candies you will definitely love this cake. Chocolate lovers, try this one! :-)
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YUMMY!!!! Alright, I'll admit that I ate most of this cake myself - which says a lot because I usually am not a big "desert person" - it was THAT GOOD!!! I porbably added another few inches to my waist line to!! The fact that I added a dolup (sp?) of whip cream to each piece didn't help in the calorie department, but it made it that much tastier!! The only problem I had was the I had to cook my cake for about 6 minutes longer - but that could be just do to my oven I suppose. This is a definite keeper. Try this guys, you won't be disappointed! -
Just made this one for my own birthday and it was very successful. My only modification might be to make the cake as 2- 8" layers and then spread the caramel, chips and nuts as a filling between them, topping with the remaining chips and nuts. I didn't like the way the edges of the caramel got "crunchy" after cooking. -
amazing cake!! I halved the recipe and baked it in a 8x8 pan. I was concerned about just melting chocolate chips for the top of the cake, so I made a homemade chocolate frosting to frost the top of the cake with :) It was delicious!!
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I made this for work and as usual when I do that I printed off about 20 copies of the recipe, they were all gone before lunch along with all the cake. Eveyone thought it was great!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
MizzNezz
United States
After DH and I moved away from the farm, and to the city...I haven't done as much cooking and very little canning. But I do come to Zaar and look for new recipes once in a while. I'm still cooking Zaar!!
I like to play at Facebook, with my family and friends. A lot of my Zaar friends are there!! Yay! It's a good way to keep in touch.
We travel more. We're looking at the European trips now. Hope to go in the springtime. I really want to see London, I think I lived there in a past life, I've been obsessed with it since I was 10 years old!!
