Chocolate Turtle Cake

Name: Chocolate Turtle Cake
Yield: Serves 8 to 12
Ingredients: 1 cup, heavy cream; 6 ounces (170 grams), bittersweet chocolate, chopped; 2 tablespoons, light corn syrup; 2 cups, pecan halves, toasted; 1 pound (454 grams), soft caramel candies; 1/8 teaspoon, salt; 1 , recipe chocolate layer cake (enough to make three 8-inch layers)

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Appears in Cook's Country October/November 2010

Desserts or Baked Goods

Cakes

Great American Cakes

We turn a favorite candy into a cake.

SERVES8 to 12

TIME1 hour, plus 1½ hours chilling

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Instead of making a caramel topping for our Chocolate Turtle Cake from scratch, we opted to melt caramel candies with some cream and a pinch of salt. Resting the cake in the refrigerator before serving made it sturdier and easier to slice.

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