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Turtle Squares

Source of Recipe

Gooseberry Patch Christmas Book 2 YEAR:2000 PAGE: 91


Recipe Introduction

This is a rich candy that has toasted pecans on the bottom, homemade buttery caramel in the middle, and milk chocolate on the top. This stuff is fantastic! So rich and delicious! I used an 8.5x11 pan instead of an 8 inch square. It would have been too thick in the 8 in. pan, in my opinion. You could also use a 9 inch square pan. This makes a lot of candy!

List of Ingredients

1 cup butter (real butter! no substitutes!)
1 cup light corn syrup
1 can sweetened condensed milk -- (140z)
2 1/4 cup brown sugar -- packed
3/4 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup pecans -- toasted and chopped
1 cup milk chocolate chips (I used chopped Hershey bars)




Recipe

Line an 8"x8" pan with foil, including sides, and butter foil. Set pan aside.

Melt butter in heavy saucepan. Stir in one cup corn syrup, condensed milk and brown sugar. Stirring mixture constantly, cook intil candy thermometer reaches 242º-248º (*see note) or firm-ball stage, 20-35 minutes. Remove pan from heat; stir in vanilla.

Layer toasted pecans in bottom of foil-lined pan, and pour caramel syrup over pecans; cool. Melt chocolate in double-boiler over low heat. Cool about 5 minutes; spread over caramel-pecan mixture.

Cool until firm, then lift out of pan and cut into squares.

posted by sneezles on the CL BB

*NOTE: I cooked the second batch to 248 deg. (the highest range listed) and that was too long. And my candy temp. is accurate because I tested it before-hand. The taste is still wonderful but they are much stiffer than my first batch that I made a couple of years ago. They are kind of hard to bite into and will give your jaws a workout! I bet I cooked the first batch only to the lower range--around 242 deg.