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Cream Cheese Turtle Cake Recipe Rating: N/A
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Recipe submitted by chefdude7263






Ingredients   (view qty in metric system instead)
Cake:
1 cup toasted sliced almonds
1 cup toasted chopped pecans
18.25 ounce box German chocolate cake mix
1 1/4 cups water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
3 large eggs
1/2 cup butter, room temperature
3 1/2 cups powdered sugar
8 ounce package cream cheese, diced, room temperature

Icing:
1 3/4 cups powdered sugar
2 tbsp. cocoa powder
5 tbsp. milk
1/4 cup butter
3/4 cup semisweet chocolate chips
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 cup caramel ice cream topping


Directions
For Cake:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter and flour a 13x9 inch baking pan. Sprinkle 1/2 cup almonds and 1/2 cup pecans over bottom of pan. Beat together cake mix, water, oil and eggs in a large bowl on low speed about 30 seconds until moistened. Increase mixer to medium and beat 2 minutes. Pour into prepared pan. Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Stir in powdered sugar and cream cheese. Whisk until smooth. Pour in ribbons over top of cake batter. Swirl into batter with the tip of a knife. Bake 50 minutes. Cool in pan on a rack. Sprinkle remaining 1/2 cup almonds and 1/2 cup pecans over top of cake.

For Icing:
Sift together powdered sugar and cocoa in a medium bowl. Combine milk and butter in a medium saucepan and heat to a simmer. Add sugar mixture and chocolate chips. Whisk until smooth. Whisk in vanilla. Drizzle icing over cake and let stand until set, about 2 hours. Drizzle caramel topping over before serving.

Serves 12 to 14.



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