Turtle Cookie Bars Recipe

2K Shares Pin404 Share Tweet1 Stumble2K Yum2One of my all-time favorite candies is the famous Turtles. You know those, right? They’re beautiful little bites of luscious pecans and rich, thick caramel covered with milk chocolate. And that’s just what these bars are. The same things that make Turtles so delicious all baked on top of a buttery shortbread base. This recipe comes from one of my favorite old cookbooks called “Pines and Plantations” which was published back in the 70’s or 80’s.  That cookbook is so well loved and so long used that I have to hold it together with a rubber band. The front cover was long lost and the back is holding on by a thread but it’s still one of my go-to volumes for tried and true I made a batch of…