Make and share this Monster Chocolate Cashew Turtles recipe from Food.com.
Provided by dojemi
Categories Candy
Time 40m
Yield 12 turtles
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Heat the first heavy cream in a small sauce pan.
- Bring to a simmer and remove from heat.
- Place chocolate chips in a stainless steel bowl.
- Pour hot cream over chocolate and stir with a rubber spatula.
- Place paper muffin cups into a muffin pan. Pour ganache into paper cups ¼ inch thick.
- Top with toasted cashews and cool in freezer.
- For the caramel:.
- Heat the second cream in a small pan up to the boil.
- Shut off heat and keep warm.
- In a large sauce pan, combine sugar water and lemon juice and cook to a medium caramel color. Be extremely careful -- this will be 'very hot'.
- Remove from heat and carefully add the hot heavy cream.
- Stir until a smooth caramel.
- Caution, use a cooking vessel much larger than necessary because the hot caramel will boil up and could splatter.
- Allow to cool to a honey like thickness.
- Spoon the caramel on top of the cashews. Place back in freezer for 15 minutes.
- Remove paper cups and place turtles on a wire rack.
- Melt dark chocolate and spoon over turtles.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 569.7, Fat 46.5, SaturatedFat 25.9, Cholesterol 51.8, Sodium 116.9, Carbohydrate 48.2, Fiber 8, Sugar 30.3, Protein 8.7
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