Homemade Pecan, Salted Caramel & Chocolate Turtle Puddles | Grown-Up Valentines

There are a lot of Valentine's Day treats out in that location that seem targeted towards kids - they are really cute, really sugary in addition to by in addition to large pinkish in addition to cerise heart-shaped.  I wanted to brand a process for Mike in addition to my adult friends that they would love... non only nation - oh, how cute.

I had flashback to a Christmas gift my parents received a few years agone - soft caramel poured over pecans, topped amongst chocolate.  After a petty online research, I works life to a greater extent than or less similar recipe efforts that looked in addition to sounded uncomplicated enough.  

Homemade candy ever seems similar a huge hassle, but... later thirty minutes (I didn't fifty-fifty require to become to the store...) I was gobbling upward these heavenly petty turtle puddles.   In fact, I had to brand a 2nd batch to role for my dinner political party because the originals were already gone!  That's when y'all know it's a keeper...

Salted-Caramel Pecan
Turtle Puddles

3 cups pecans
2 sticks of butter
1 loving cup brownish sugar
1/2 loving cup lite corn syrup
1/2 tin give notice of sweetened condensed milk
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
1 tablespoon of ocean salt
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iv - iv oz. bars of milk chocolate

1 teaspoon of lite corn syrup
Course Sea Salt

To brand the caramel, melt butter inwards a medium-sized sauce pan.  Add  brownish sugar, lite corn syrup in addition to sweetened condensed milk to the pan.  Cook on medium high in addition to stir until it reaches the soft-ball phase (see my authorities annotation below near using H2O ice H2O to exam it - really easy!).  

Remove from oestrus in addition to add together vanilla in addition to ocean salt. 

In the meantime, toast the pecans inwards a dry out saute pan for 1-2 minutes to pick out out their best flavor.

Arrange the pecans into groups of 3 on a greased cookie sheet.  Pour caramel over each cluster. 

Melt the chocolate over a double boiler in addition to then stir inwards corn syrup to piece of occupation inwards shiny.  Do non over oestrus the chocolate!

Dollop the chocolate onto the top.  Let cool slightly, in addition to then sprinkle on ocean salt.  Store uncovered.

 

It starts amongst making a soft, but set-up-able, caramel using melted butter, brownish sugar, sweetened condensed milk in addition to corn syrup.  Of course, I added actually expert vanilla in addition to ocean tabular array salt at the end.

Here is the butter melting.

Brown saccharide stirred in.

 All of the ingredients are in, forthwith only near 8 minutes of boiling to teach to the soft, but set-up-able, non-liquid stage.  The best agency to practise this is to pick out a bowl of H2O ice H2O yesteryear the stove, in addition to then every bit it is cooking, drib inwards a pocket-sized sum of the caramel into the water.  If it has cooked long enough, the caramel volition laid upward into a soft petty ball that y'all tin give notice squish betwixt your fingers.  Don't permit it laid upward likewise long, or it volition harden, like... difficult candy, instead of chewy candy.  You desire it to last soft plenty to pour, but difficult plenty non to run all over the place.

When y'all achieve the correct consistency, take away it from the heat.

Toast the pecans inwards a dry out skillet for only a infinitesimal or two.  

Pile the pecans inwards threes on a greased cookie canvass or on a silpat, similar this one.

Pour the caramel sauce into a mensuration cup.

Pour caramel over each pecan pile.

 Let it laid upward slightly.

Melt the chocolate over a double boiler (glass bowl sitting over a pot of simmering water).  I used milk chocolate because it is my favorite - but y'all tin give notice role night chocolate if y'all are i of "those" people.  I pick out no shame for my milk chocolate love... fifty-fifty if I am non every bit "sophisticated" every bit those night chocolate lovers.

 Dollop the chocolate amongst a spoon on piece of occupation yesteryear of each caramel.  You don't pick out to last neat or fancy amongst it - the to a greater extent than rustic the better!

The finishing impact is a sprinkling of ocean tabular array salt on top... but hold off a petty chip for the chocolate to cool, or the tabular array salt volition melt.   As y'all volition encounter from my outset try...

See the tabular array salt has started to melt a petty - it sill tastes great, but y'all unloosen to a greater extent than or less of the mash from the salt.

Here the are on a platter - a bang-up grown-up treat.  Oh, they are sooooo good!   

Here is the easy-to-pin strip!

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