TURTLE CARAMEL CAKE

This Turtle Chocolate Cake is made with super moist chocolate cake, caramel sauce, chopped pecans and caramel buttercream! It’s like turtle candies in cake form and it’s heavenly!

Turtle Chocolate Layer Cake
This cake has so much going for it. Not only is it made with my favorite Best Chocolate Cake recipe as the base, but it’s full of caramel, chocolate and pecans. What’s not to love?!

If you aren’t familiar with turtle candies, then you might be wondering what in the world a turtle cake is. Surely it has nothing to do with the animal? And you’re right! Turtle candies are actually made to look like the shape of a turtle, hence the name. Pecans are used to kind of look like the little legs and caramel sauce and chocolate make up the body of the turtle. It’s a delicious candy and just might be even better in cake form.

TURTLE CARAMEL CAKE

INGREDIENTS

1 cup chocolate chip

Toll House Morsels Semi-Sweet Chocolate

2 For $4.002 cups pecans

3/4 cup melted butter

1/2 cup evaporated milk

1 (14 ounce) bags caramels

1 1/3 cups water ( or as called for by your cake mix)

1/3 cup oil ( or as called for by your cake mix)

3 eggs ( or as called for by your cake mix)

1 (18 ounce) boxes German chocolate cake mix

DirectionsPreheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).Lightly grease one 9×13 inch pan.Prepare cake mix according to package directions and pour 1/2 of the batter into the prepared pan. Bake at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) for 15 minutes.In a saucepan melt caramels, 3/4 cup of the butter or margarine, and evaporated milk, pour over baked cake.Sprinkle chocolate chips and chopped pecans over caramel mixture.Pour remaining cake batter on top and bake for 20 minutes at 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).Cool and frost.To Make Frosting: Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter or margarine and the unsweetened chocolate together. Remove from heat and add the corn syrup, vanilla, confectioner’s sugar, and milk, mix well and use to frost cooled cake

.Source: susanrecipe