Chocolate Turtle Cake 🐢
If you love turtle candies you are going to absolutely love this turtle cake recipe. And you aren’t going to believe this recipe is made with 5 simple ingredients and it’s the most delicious chocolate cake I think I have ever eaten! I got this recipe from a vintage cookbook and the way this cake is made is so different from any other way I have made a cake before. It’s the technique that makes this so delicious and the ingredients could have been found in the 1940’s or today. So, grab your candy store caramels, chocolate chips, and let’s make it!
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You can also use walnuts, hazelnuts, peanuts, or almonds!
Yes! You can use any kind of chocolate chips you like!
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Chocolate Turtle Cake
Ingredients
- 13.25 oz box chocolate fudge cake mix
- 3 eggs
- 1 cup water
- ½ cup vegetable oil
- 2 cups chopped pecans divided
- 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
- 1 & ½ sticks salted butter
- 11 oz candy caramels
Instructions
- In a large measuring cup or bowl, add in chocolate cake mix, eggs, water, and oil. Whisk that together until fully combined.
- Grease a 9×13 baking dish and evenly pour in HALF of the cake batter (save the remaining cake batter for later). Bake that in the oven at 350°F for 15 minutes.
- While that is baking, to a pot add butter and caramels. Melt the butter and caramels over a low-heat until they are fully melted together.
- Once the half of the cake is done pour the caramel butter sauce evenly over the top of the cake. Next, evenly sprinkle over the chocolate chips and 1 cup of chopped pecans. Then, pour the remaining half of the cake batter evenly over the top and gently smooth it out. Lastly, sprinkle the remaining 1 cup of chopped pecans over the top.
- Bake that at 350°F for 20 minutes. Once it is done let it cool for about 20-25 minutes and enjoy!
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Can you use olive oil in place of vegetable oil?
Unfortunately it will change the taste and won’t work.
I made it its good! But next time I make it I’m going to poke holes in the bottom layer for the caramel to go into the cake instead of just around it.