This is a great fake out recipe. It's technically homemade but it uses all the short cuts so there's minimal effort but your friends and family have no idea.
Note: You can use chopped pecans like I did or you can line up whole pecan bunches instead. I would use 3 pecans per bunch.
Note: Recipe can easily be scaled up or down. Just do as many as you want. It's a formula more than a recipe.
Ingredients (for 25 pecans):
75 pecans chopped or whole
25 wrapped caramels (or a block of caramel that you've cut into 25 pieces)
25-50 dark chocolate wafers (those little disks great for melting- mine were so thin so I used 2 per turtle)
coarse sea salt (optional) for garnish
Directions:
Unwrap caramels. Chop pecans and bunch them into piles (or make piles of 3 whole pecans side by side). I used my silicone baking mats on a baking sheet for these. They popped off really easily. If you don't have silicone, use parchment paper or gently grease your sheet.
Squish the caramels into flatter disks (I just pushed down with my hand on the caramel on a cutting board.) Put a squished caramel on each pile of pecans. Pop in 325 oven for a few minutes. Pull out and place 1-2 chocolate disks on each caramel. Sprinkle with salt if desired. Wait till cooled, then remove and enjoy.
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