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CHOCOLATE TURTLES 3 Ingredient Christmas Candy
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Mar 14, 2025
CHOCOLATE TURTLES 3 Ingredient Christmas Candy Today's Recipe: https://catherinesplates.com/chocolate-turtles-christmas-candy/ **Click here to see my recipe blog: https://catherinesplates.com NEW: To purchase my Dessert Cookbook, click link https://www.blurb.com/bookstore/invited/10034701/10feb0fb4a14a171cfaeed6889d6656eab1a0016 *To purchase my cookbook vol 1, click link https://www.blurb.com/b/9452561-catherine-s-plates **To purchase my cookbook vol 2, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/10367334-catherine-s-plates-cookbook ***To purchase my cookbook vol 3, click here https://www.blurb.com/b/11248440-catherine-s-plates-3rd-edition-2022 ***My Amazon StoreFront https://www.amazon.com/shop/catherinesplates (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) ***Follow me on Social Media Facebook @ https://facebook.com/catherinesplates/ YouTube @ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuvgtfqhHTKI5kymcLKeyxg Pinterest @ https://www.pinterest.com/CatherinesPlates/ TikTok @ https://www.tiktok.com/@catherinesplates Rumble @ https://rumble.com/c/c-1642522
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hi everyone welcome back it's still the
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Christmas season we've still got lots of
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things to do today I'm going to show you
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how to make chocolate hurdles Jerry
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that's my mom this is her recipe it goes
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way back I've never made these for you
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because she's always making these in
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bunches and gives them out during the
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holidays to friends and family and I
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always get my share along with
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everything else she makes here we go
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it's three
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ingredients
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cons some caramels and chocolate chips
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this is her perfect recipe we're going
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to make it right now we're going to
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start preheating our oven to
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300° first thing you want to do is
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lightly toast your bcans she said that's
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very important because it just brings
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out the bcan flavor which makes
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everything taste like the holiday right
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I have a sheet pan lined it with some
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parchment my oven's already preheating
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we're going to lay these
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out now we're going to need four Bean
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halves for each Turtle they're going to
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be the
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legs and I've got the vcon Hales here
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that's what you
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want they look like that I'm going to be
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putting together four of them that way I
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know I have enough so for each Turtle
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you're going to need four Bean halves
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I'm just going to push these together so
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I don't I have the amount that I want
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I'm going to take the little bits and
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pieces off the board here they can be
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used for another candy which if you play
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your cards right there may be another
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candy coming up let's see what we got 1
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine we're going to make
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10 of
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these so now I'm going to move them
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around a little bit so the air can
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circulate around them get them nice and
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toasty now we know we have what we need
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once our oven is preheated at the 300°
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we'll pop these in there for about six
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minutes if you haven't seen my mom Jerry
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she's been in my cherry mash video in
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fact I went over there and made the
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Cherry Mash candy with her at her house
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the pecan balls which were really famous
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I mean she makes tons of those every
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year and she was over here for cream
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puffs we enjoyed that recipe that was
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awesome now she's going to be remembered
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for her
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turtles because she's over at her house
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right now still making candy
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and breads for giving out to all her
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friends and family all right I'm going
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to put these in the oven and we'll be
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back for the next step those smell
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delicious we go all
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right nice and
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toasty we're leaving them on the pan the
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oven is still heated we're going to turn
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down the oven to
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200° it's going to take a little bit of
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time there we go now what we're going to
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do is build our Turtle so you want to
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put four of the pecans together kind of
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spread out a little bit just like that
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that's going to resemble the four legs
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of a turtle and we always want to keep
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these
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together now just be careful cuz your
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pan is hot we're going to set these
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aside okay let's talk about the caramels
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my mom finds this to be the fastest way
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to do this you can melt caramels with a
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little bit of heavy whipping cream and
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get a nice soft she finds that that
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spreads out too much and you want to be
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able to see the beans also so what she
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does is she takes one of these it's
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these are warther's original soft
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caramels see that's what they look like
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right here you're going to open one up
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now these are soft so they're going to
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be a little chewy you want to make sure
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that you're going to be working with
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clean
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hands so we're going to take it out of
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the
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wrapper just keep rolling it out and
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then what she does she just forms it
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into a disc so flatten it out you want
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this to cover half of the pecans in the
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center so we're going to flatten it out
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just like that we're going to place it
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right on top of the
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pecans now you can squish them back in
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there there we go just like that I'm
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going to bring you up closer right here
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and show you this one unwrap it just
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untwist both
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ends start unwrapping wrapping very
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carefully just unroll it right out and
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then we're just going to flatten it out
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like a disc like that and then you just
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want to place it on top of the four
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pecans right in the center and then you
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can push them back in if they move away
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from you just like that all right we've
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got our last one started folding these
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in half and then smushing them
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out there we go all right this was 4.5 o
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size package of the soft caramels and I
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still have about eight of them in here
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we've got our oven already at the 200°
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we're going to we're going to put the
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turtles in there for four to 5 minutes
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until the caramels are slightly melted
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over the pecans let's pull the Turtles
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out wo those look good oh nice and
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melted yeah put them on my counter here
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we're going to cool those down for about
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3 to four minutes I turned off my oven
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cuz we no longer need it let's talk
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about the
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chocolate all right I'm using giradelli
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premium baking semie chocolate chips now
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she uses almond bark it's a chocolate
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almond bark we used that when we made
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the Cherry Mash has such a good flavor
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good melting chocolate too so 6 oz of
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chocolate
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chips I'm going to put it in a microwave
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safe Bowl now my preferred method is a
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double boiler but I'm going to try to
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keep it easy for you today I'm following
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the directions on the back of this
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package here on how to use the microwave
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to melt your chocolate so you're going
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to need a microwave safe Bowl put your
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chips in it and what we're going to do
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is put it on 50% power and cook it for
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about 1 and 1 half to 2 minutes we're
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going to pull it out we're going to Stir
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It Up and
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then it says to keep stirring until the
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bowl is no longer warm and then put it
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back in for another 30 seconds if needed
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what are y'all making for Christmas what
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kind of candy are you making there's so
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many options out there huh and I have
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lots of options too all you have to do
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is just go into my blog Katherine
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plates.com look up candy put it back in
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for another 30 seconds and that should
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do
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it just be careful with the bowl hey you
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guys I finally did it
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I melted chocolate chips in the
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microwave you got to be very patient
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with it okay that is nice and
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smooth bring our Turtles over you want
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to work quickly though because that
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chocolate will set up on you I'm going
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to take a spoon two
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spoons going to fill one spoon with the
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chocolate I'm going to come over here to
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the first one and I'm just going to put
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right on the center over the caramel
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nice big blop of the chocolate and kind
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of scoot it around there is a double
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boiler method you can do that if you
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want it's usually found on the back of
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the package on how to do it I usually do
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that
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method all right we're at the end here
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so I would say if you're doing 10
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turtles that 6 oz of chocolate is plenty
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we're going to set these aside let them
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set up so you want them to be totally
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solid okay I helped solidify these by
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putting them in the refrigerator it only
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took about 5 minutes we're going to put
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these on a serving platter
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don't these look
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delicious look at that y'all can see the
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caramel and the
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chocolate it's all held
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together there we go look at those cute
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chocolate turtles the perfect Christmas
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candy I'm going to give one a try for
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you the crunch of the pecan the
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creaminess of the
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caramel and that chocolate just wraps it
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all
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together what a delicious candy for
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Christmas Merry Christmas to everyone
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hope everyone has a happy New Year I'll
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see y'all on the next
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episode bye you
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guys m
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