-- TRIATHLON TURTLES --
Recipe adapted from 'Orville Redenbacher's Popcorn Cookbook'

Ingredients:

6 cups Aunt Em's Kettle Korn

1 package (14 oz) light caramels, unwrapped

2 Tablespoons of butter

2 Tablespoons of milk

30 pecan halves

30 whole cashews

1 package (6 oz) semi-sweet chocolate morsels

1 teaspoon shortening

Directions:

* Prepare a baking sheet with lightly greased wax paper to place turtles on.

* Place Aunt Em's Kettle Korn in a large mixing bowl.

* Combine caramels, butter, and milk in a medium saucepan over low heat until smooth.

* Gently stir caramel mixture into Kettle Korn until evenly coated.

* Allow mixture to cool until it can be safely handled.

* With lightly greased hands, press together a Tablespoon of the caramel coated popcorn and place onto the baking sheet.

* Using your thumb, make a small indention on top of each popcorn mound.

* While the popcorn mounds are still warm, push the small end of the cashews into the indentions in the mounds to form the heads of the turtles.

* Stir together the chocolate and shortening until blended in a small saucepan on low heat.

* Spoon 1 teaspoon of chocolate mixture into indentations of each turtle.

* While the chocolate is still warm press 1 pecan half into each chocolate mound. (Pecan represents the turtle's shell).

* Remove from baking sheet when cool and serve.

Some Turtles may be slow, but these turtles will move very fast!

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