Cookie Recipes
Salted Caramel Turtle Triangles
Double chocolate chunk, fudgy brownies meet ooey, gooey caramel and a sprinkle of sea salt.
Prep: 20 min | Bake: 15 min | Yield: 48
I love the Fleur de Sel Caramels at Boule in Los Angeles. I wanted to make a version of them at home without having to make caramel from scratch. Since I also love turtle brownies, I tried putting the two elements together and came up with these decadent, rich and gooey bars.
Ingredients
Cookie Base
- 1 (17.4 ounce) pouch Betty Crocker® double chocolate chunk cookie mix
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 egg
- 2/3 cup pecans, coarsely chopped
Caramel Topping
- 4 tablespoons butter
- 1 (14 ounce) bag caramels (approximately 50 caramels)
- 1/4 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/8 teaspoon coarse kosher salt, + an additional 1/2 teaspoon for top of bars
Instructions
- Heat oven to 350 degrees F. Spray 9 x 13 inch pan with cooking spray.
- In a medium bowl, stir together cookie mix, butter, water and egg until soft dough forms.
- Press dough evenly into prepared pan, sprinkle with 1/3 cup pecans.
- Bake for 11 to 15 minutes or until set in center and edges just begin to pull from sides of pan.
- Set aside to cool.
- Meanwhile, in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, melt butter, caramels and cream, stirring frequently until mixture is smooth.
- Remove from heat.
- Stir in vanilla extract and 1/8 teaspoon salt.
- Spread caramel evenly over cookie base and sprinkle with remaining pecans.
- Cool completely.
- Sprinkle top of caramel with additional salt right before serving.
- To serve, cut into 4 rows x 6 rows and cut each square diagonally into triangles.
- Store in refrigerator; bring to room temperature before serving.
Nutrition
Per bar:r Calories 110 (Calories from Fat 50), % Daily Value Total Fat 5g 5% (Saturated Fat 2 1/2g, 2 1/2% Trans Fat 0g 0% ), Cholesterol 15mg 15%; Sodium 110mg 110%;Total Carbohydrate 15g 15% (Dietary Fiber 0g 0% Sugars 9g 9% ), Protein 1g 1%
% Daily Value*: Vitamin A 0%; Vitamin C 0%; Calcium 0%; Iron 0%
Exchanges: 0 Starch; 0 Fruit; 1 Other Carbohydrate; 0 Skim Milk; 0 Low-Fat Milk; 0 Milk; 0 Vegetable; 0 Very Lean Meat; 0 Lean Meat; 0 High-Fat Meat; 1 Fat;
Carbohydrate Choices: 1
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Attribution
Recipe and photo used with permission from:
Betty Crocker