4 Pound Turtle Cake

[JaneYoung]

Anyone ever heard of a 4 lb. turtle cake?

I've just been assigned melting a whole bag of caramels and a can of sweetened condensed milk together for a filling.

I'm stirring - so far not much is happening.
Wonder if the 4 lbs is how much this cake is going to weigh or if 4 lbs. is how much a person can gain by eating some of it.

[Mark McLeod]

How are you stirring and typing at the same time?

I think it's 4 lbs after you finish sampling

I've only ever made the little turtles.
You'd have to eat a lot of those to make 4 lbs.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

How are you stirring and typing at the same time?

Slow and ambidextrous, turtle-ish, I reckon.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

I've only ever made the little turtles.
You'd have to eat a lot of those to make 4 lbs.

Elgin, I think Mark had the answer at the beginning of this silly thread.
I think 'turtles' are like something we call pralines down here.
It's a southern thing perhaps.

Caramels, pecans, sweetened condensed milk - seem to have been what made this cake a turtle. Sorry that you were disappointed.
Jane

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Jane

It's a southern thing perhaps.

Yep, I'm a southern boy with Yankee children (well Mets really).

The little "turtles" are made with the same ingredients that Jane used for her larger cake, but they are roughly the size of a half-dollar (about two bites worth) and are made with one pecan-half coated with the caramel mixture covered with chocolate.

[Cynette]

Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

The little "turtles" are made with the same ingredients that Jane used for her larger cake, but they are roughly the size of a half-dollar (about two bites worth) and are made with one pecan-half coated with the caramel mixture covered with chocolate.

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!

[JaneYoung]

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!

Oh there they are!
*sigh, relief*

YaY

[Mark McLeod]

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!

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.

[KathieK]

hmm. sounds good, Jane! but the thread reminded me of a Kitty Litter cake we once had at work...

[JaneYoung]

Don't get me started, Kathie...do NOT get me started...

[Al Skierkiewicz]

Someone sent me the recipe for that kitty cake last week. It was just gross! Of course, some team members ordered me a birthday special down in Disney World during Chamionship one year. It was crushed Oreo Cookies (just the outside) with gummi worms. Looked like worms in dirt. They made me eat it but how do you dunk in milk?

[KathieK]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Someone sent me the recipe for that kitty cake last week. It was just gross! Of course, some team members ordered me a birthday special down in Disney World during Chamionship one year. It was crushed Oreo Cookies (just the outside) with gummi worms. Looked like worms in dirt. They made me eat it but how do you dunk in milk?

Up here we call that a "dirt cake" and it's often served in a sandpail. Kitty Litter cake is served in a (new) litter box and scooped out with the litter scoop, of course. Yellow cake mix, crumbled, with some green food coloring on some of it to represent the chlorophyll. Then take small tootsie rolls and warm them up and pinch off the ends to represent... well, you know. Place those on top. Voila! Kitty Litter Cake!

[Mark McLeod]

Originally Posted by Al Skierkiewicz

Looked like worms in dirt.

At some of our birthday parties when the kids were much younger we added chocolate pudding to that mixture and made individual cups of worms in mud. I got to finish off the uneaten cups. I picked out the worms though.

[Al Skierkiewicz]

OK, here is one from my wife, named for her Aunt Honey, it's Auntie Honey's chocolate cake. (or my birthday cake however you choose to look at it.) You can substitute decaf but that's just for wimps. And again, just for effect, (Mark and Kathie) that's just gross!

2 C flour
1-3/4 C sugar
1/2 C cocoa
1 T baking soda
1 tsp salt
1 C sour milk (if you don't have any, I add some vinegar to sour it)
1 C hot strong coffee (if you don't have any made, I use instant, but make it a bit strong)
2/3 C salad oil
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla

Mix all ingredients together. Bake in 350 degree oven for 45 minutes.
9x13 greased & floured pan.
Frost with fudge icing (below).

Fudge Icing -
2-1/2 C powdered sugar
4 sq baking chocolate
4 T margarine
1 tsp vanilla
dash salt
5 T milk

Melt margarine & chocolate over low heat. Remove from fire. Add remaining ingredients & beat until smooth. (If it gets a little lumpy, return to heat and beat, but watch so as not to scorch - add a few drops of milk.)
Spread over cake. (It's ok if it's a bit thick - it's yummy.)

Enjoy!

Dottie

[dlavery]

Originally Posted by Jane

Anyone ever heard of a 4 lb. turtle cake?
...
Wonder if the 4 lbs is how much this cake is going to weigh or if 4 lbs. is how much a person can gain by eating some of it.

I thought it was a cake that was supposed to look like a 4-pound turtle. No?

-dave