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Originally Posted by mocat1530
They are called turtles because if you arrange the pecans just right they stick out from the gooey chocolate covered caramel and make it sort of look like a turtle with a head sticking out of the shell. Plus you need to eat them real slow to enjoy them and not get the caramel stuck in your teeth!
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I have to admit I only bothered with shaping the turtle the first few times I made them as a kid. Gradually, our impatience to start eating them got the better of us and it was a race to see how fast we could cover the wax paper with turtles. Maybe we were making a turtle in it's shell instead.