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Although I made bread pudding earlier today, Gavin had also made plans to play WoW this evening, so in an attempt to keep myself busy I made Turtles.

Things went… fairly well… I only melted two spoons, and I’m not quite sure how they turned out… I think the caramel got a little too warm so instead of being chewy from the best I can tell it may turn out to be more brittle/hard.
The bent spoon

The printer didn’t work, so I used my computer with the web page open to the recipe. This was special because after a few minutes the screen would go dark.
The scientific set up

It was a fairly straight forward recipe, the only real problem was getting the temperature high enough… but once the temperature got high enough it went even higher (hence my concern about the consistency).
The finished turtles

The reason they’re in the cupcake papers is because the last time I tried to make something with toffee/caramel it got rather liquidy and never solidified properly. Better safe than sorry.

I just tried one, the chocolate has not finished setting yet, the caramel is quite solid, more like the stuff in peanut-brittle than chewy caramel (I shall try again at some point), and not all the pecans have stuck. It’s quite fun to eat (messy), and tastes quite yummy. I shall have to check on them again in the morning.

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Update Gavin got a rather thick one and decided it would be dangerous for his teeth to try and bite through it, instead he is gleefully licking and sucking the chocolate off the top. Perhaps we will donate them to his co-workers on Monday and try again with a less stiff “caramel” another time.