How to Make Turtle Candies

This recipe is a personal family favorite. However, you can add your own personal touch to make it a family favorite of your own. Turtle candies are a simple and easy candy to make. Turtles are usually made with pecans and shaped to look like turtles. However, the candies can also be made with cashews, peanuts or almonds. You can make simple candies or for a fancier turtle, you can drizzle white chocolate over the finished product.

Things You'll Need

• 4 oz. of your choice of nuts
• 25 caramels
• 1 tsp. food shortening
• 1 12 oz. bag of semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 4 oz. white chocolate
• Cookie baking sheet
• Cooking spray
• Double boiler
• Wooden spoon
• Tupperware containers

Instructions

Making the Turtles

1. Pre-heat your oven to 300 degrees. Take a baking sheet and lightly spray the sheet with cooking spray.

2. Arrange nuts on a baking sheet. If you use pecans, take three pecans and form the nuts in the shape of a Y. Other nuts can be placed in the form of a circle.

3. Take a caramel candy and place it on top of the nuts. Place the nuts with the caramels in your oven, and bake about 10 minutes.

4. Melt chocolates and shortening into a double boiler while nuts and caramels are baking. Stir chocolate as it is melting.

5. Spread a thin layer of chocolate over turtles using a wooden spoon. Place your candies in your refrigerator for up to an hour. Remove your candies once they have cooled and store in air-tight containers.

Tips & Warnings

• To make a whimsical turtle, use cashews for the shell and pecans to make the turtle's legs and head.

• If you don't have a double boiler, you can use two cooking pots of different sizes to melt your chocolate. Fill the larger of the two with water, allowing the smaller one, which holds the chocolate, to "float" as the water boils.

• Don't leave your chocolate unattended on the stove, as you can scorch the chocolate.

Resources

• Food Network: Recipes for Turtle Candies
• Turtle Candy Recipes
• Recipes for Turtle Candies