After a brief stay as we recovered after the holidays, The Secret Recipe Club is back. You might have seen the earlier postings, Group A on February 6 and Group B on February 13. Today is Group C’s reveal day! Our group’s hostess, Angela of Big Bear’s Wife always seems to send me fantastic blogs for me to peruse. This month’s assignment, from Chapel Hill to Chickenville, was wonderful to check out. Aimee has a plethora of recipes, as well as fun tips and tricks for family fun.
I went about making these a little differently, leaving the pecans halved and spreading the chocolate, rather than scatter. Also, as with recipes that call for sifting, “cutting” butter into a recipe is not a step I enjoy in baking. I only sift or cut when I notice a huge difference in the end result. For instance, pie dough and scones are two recipes I will take the time to cut the butter into the flour. If not, the end result will be tough and unappetizing. With bar cookies, however, I don’t bother.
Regardless of the little changes I made, these are sure to please any sweet tooth. Enjoy!
Turtle Bars
From Chapel Hill to Chickenville
Bar Base
2 cup flour
1 cup brown sugar
½ cup softened butter
6 oz. pecan halves
Topping
2/3 cup butter
½ cup brown sugar
10 oz. bittersweet chocolate chips
Preheat oven to 350°F.
Place the flour, sugar, and butter in the bowl of an electric mixer. Blend until the mixture looks coarse and crumbly. Press mixture into a 9×13-inch pan. Arrange the pecans over the flour mixture; set aside.
In a small sauce pan, melt butter and brown sugar. Stirring frequently, bring to a boil. Boil for 30 seconds, stirring constantly to make sure the mixture is fully blended. Remove from heat and pour the over the pecans-covered base. Bake for 20 minutes. Remove from oven and immediately sprinkle with chocolate chips. Return to oven for about 30 second-1 minute. Remove, and with an offset spatula, spread the chocolate into an even layer. Let cool in pan completely and then cut into small squares. Yields about 20-30 squares
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This is my kind of dessert. Rich and delicious and quick to put together. Looking forward to seeing you soon!
These look positively perfect! I love that the ingredient list is fairly short. A great SRC pick!
Your photos are wonderful! You can tell from my original post, I didn’t really know how to take photos back then, but I’m getting better. Next time I make these I’m going to skip the “cutting” part and see what happens…seems it worked perfectly for you and would definitely save time. I’m gonna go check out your other recipes.
Wow, what a great pick! So many delicious desserts that are really making me want to pretend weight watchers doesn’t exist! I love this!!
Great choice for SRC, these look so delicious! So glad to be in Group C with you!
These looks wonderful! Great SRC pick!!!
Saw these on Pinterest, they look amazing!
I had Aimee’s site in November. I love to still drop by and visit. Great recipe for SRC. Glad to be in Group C with ya’!
I love a good simple dessert, these look like they fit the bill exactly. I am going to have to check out your macadamia nut bars too!
WOWIE do those look good!!!!
Pure decadence! Perfect for anybodies sweet tooth!
What a great, simple dessert. I agree with Rhonda….it is perfect for the sweet tooth. Excellent SRC choice.
These look absolutely heavenly!
I also do that with butter! and btw the bars look amazing, the minor changes really made a difference but they still look good
So rich, delicious and decadent looking, wish I was tasting one.
If you haven’t already, I’d love for you to check out my Group ‘A’ SRC entry: Crunchy Fudgy Heart Bites
Lisa~~
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And I do have a sweet tooth so I’m sure these would be a hit. Great SRC pick, have a wonderful week.
Super yum, can’t wait to try these! Visiting you from Group B!
Such perfect layers!
Oh, man, these look amazing!!! I zeroed right in on these beauties out of all the SRC photos
I could go for a few of those this morning!
Oh boy! Another sweet one I’m adding to my “make list” from group C’s reveal!! This one looks so simple and fantastic. And also easily veganized! Thank you!!
Delish! I would have such hard time limiting to just one. Glad to be part of SRC group C with you!
Absolutely delicious looking! i love this recipe! Pure extravagance!
Congrats on getting the most popular recipe of your group!
Awesome job!
but, I gotta say those are some amazing looking bars! Do they happen to have calories?