Turtle Pie Recipe (Dairy Free, Vegan) | Desserts With Benefits Blog (2024)

Dec 8, 2017

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You’re staring face to face with one of the most decadent, delicious, and drool-worthy desserts on this planet. No, that is not an overstatement. This Turtle Pie tastes SO incredible you’ll wonder how on earth it can possibly be vegan, dairy free, and all natural!

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The pie crust is buttery and rich, and has the perfect flavor to offset the thick layer of sweet and chewy caramel. On top of the caramel is the creamiest of the creamy and dreamiest of the dreamy chocolate ganaches EVER, which is studded with a handful of toasted pecans.

This is literally like one of those Turtle candies, just supersized!

One bite and you’re in for a real treat.

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Turtles and I go wayyy back. I used to eat an obscene amount of those confections as a kid. Most people associate Turtles with the holidays, but me? I ate them year round, of course. With every bite you instantly get the creamy milk chocolate flavor, and then the caramel flavor strikes as you notice the slight crunch from the pecans. Turtles may be small, but dang, they sure are decadent!

That’s probably why Turtle Pies are sold in grocery stores. Unfortunately, they are made with the most horrendous ingredients on the planet — chemically bleached flour, dangerous hydrogenated oils (trans fats), preservatives, and a ton of sugar (sugar is listed 6x in their long ingredient list).

Now, let’s just imagine Turtles and those storebought Turtle Pies REMADE.

  • Instead of milk chocolate I used dark chocolate.
  • Instead of white sugar and corn syrup I used a range of healthier alternatives, including pure maple syrup, sucanat, erythritol, and stevia extract.
  • Instead of using pie crust made with bleached flour and hydrogenated oils I usedImmaculate Baking Co.’s ready-to-bake pie crust, which is made with unbleached, unbromated wheat flour,natural oils, and absolutely nopreservatives orartificial food dyes.

This pie is made with quality ingredients you can feel good about eating! Because pie should always make us feel good 😉

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Vegan Turtle Pie

Servings: 2 9.5" pies

Prep Time: 40 minutes mins

Cook Time: 35 minutes mins

Total Time: 1 hour hr 15 minutes mins

This Turtle Pie tastes SO incredible you’ll wonder how on earth it can possibly be vegan and dairy free!The pie crust is buttery and rich, and has the perfect flavor to offset the thick layer of sweet and chewy caramel. On top of the caramel is the creamiest of the creamy and dreamiest of the dreamy chocolate ganaches EVER, which is studded with a handful of toasted pecans.

Ingredients

Caramel Layer:

  • 153g (⅔ cup) Light Coconut Milk (canned)
  • 56g (¼ cup) Coconut Oil (melted)
  • ¼ tsp Salt
  • 252g (¾ cup) Pure Maple Syrup
  • 30g (2 tbs) Water
  • 192g (1 cup) Sucanat
  • 96g (½ cup) Granulated Erythritol
  • 1 tbs Vanilla Extract

Chocolate-Pecan Ganache:

  • 16 oz 70% Cacao Chocolate
  • 306g (1⅓ cups) Light Coconut Milk (canned)
  • 2 tsp Liquid Stevia Extract
  • cup Toasted Pecan Halves

Instructions

For the Crust:

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit.

  • Bring the rolled pie crusts out of the fridge and let them sit at room temp for about 20 minutes, or until soft (if you unroll it cold, it will tear). Unroll the pie crusts into two 9.5" pie pans. Bake for ~11 minutes, or until just golden brown.

For the Caramel Layer:

  • Spray a loaf pan with cooking spray.

  • In a medium-sized bowl, whisk together the coconut milk, coconut oil and salt. Set aside.

  • In a 2-quart saucepan, add the maple syrup, water, sucanat and erythritol. Do not stir. Add a candy thermometer to the saucepan, then place the pan over a stove set to medium-high heat.

  • Without stirring, let the mixture come to a boil. When it reaches 250 degrees Fahrenheit (it takes me ~7-8 minutes), remove the pan from the heat and whisk in the set aside coconut milk/oil mixture.

  • Return the pan to the heat and let it come to a boil again. When it reaches 266 degrees Fahrenheit (it takes me ~10 minutes), turn the stove off and remove from the heat.

  • Very carefully, add the vanilla extract. It will bubble up vigorously, so watch out! Pour the caramel into the prepared pan. Let cool completely at room temperature.

  • Divide the caramel in half between the two pans to create the caramel layer.

  • For the Chocolate-Pecan Ganache:

  • In a double boiler over medium heat, add the chocolate and coconut milk. Stir occasionally until completely melted.

  • Whisk in the stevia extract, then stir in the toasted pecans. Divide the mixture in half between the two pans. Refrigerate until completely firm.

  • Slice and serve with all natural whipped cream,Homemade Caramel Sauce,and chopped pecans!

Recipe Notes

This pie is very rich, and I recommend slicing each pie into 12-16 slices.

Caramel adapted from the Soft Caramels recipe in the Naughty or Nice Cookbook.

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: Pie

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Can’t you tell by this picture how chewy the caramel is and how creamy the ganache is??

(Not pictured: Me foaming at the mouth)

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This is literally magic in a pie crust 🙂

Enjoy!

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With love and good eats,

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–Jess

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Based on the old fashion candy, turtle pie contains all the necessary flavors of chocolate, caramel, and pecans. Typically, the dessert is made with a chocolate Oreo crust and a cream cheese filling. However, I decided to switch things up a bit and turn a standard pecan pie into a fun turtle pie with a few twists!

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The turtle pie got its name due to the caramel, chocolate and pecans that are used to top the pies, which are said to have a similarity in flavor to that of DeMet's Turtles, which use similar ingredients. The pie usually has a cookie crumb crust and is often made with a custard, mousse or a cheesecake filling.

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LEMON MERINGUE

Our most popular pie! Slightly tart, slightly sweet, topped with a light golden meringue.

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On its own, Marie Callender's pie crust is vegan, so what's not vegan varies depending on the filling. What is this? As a rule of thumb, their fruit pies are accidentally vegan, but pies with fillings like cream or meringue are not.

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Why do they call it turtle pie? This pie is a fun spin on turtle candies, which are so named because the combination of chocolate and caramel topped with a pecan half resembles the shell of a turtle.

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Three ingredients that can perk up any palate or day, Turtles ® clusters are bursting with crunchy pecans, creamy caramel, and all wrapped up in luscious chocolate. The taste of the original caramel nut cluster is made to delight.

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Not the most offensive of all Chinese swear words, 王八蛋 can mean “tortoise egg” or “turtle egg” and is yet another entry in the list of egg-themed Chinese curse words. If you call someone a 王八蛋, it's implied that you think they are a stupid man, so dumb that they can't tell a turtle egg from a chicken egg.

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Egg-Based Insults in Chinese

Terms like “huài dàn,” meaning 'bad egg,' or “wáng b dàn,” which directly translates to 'turtle egg', are used to attack someone's character and ancestral heritage.

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Premium Churned Reduced-Fat, No Sugar Added Caramel Turtle Truffle Ice Cream. Reduced fat vanilla flavored ice cream packed with caramel-filled milk chocolate turtles and a caramel ribbon.

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Three ingredients that can perk up any palate or day, Turtles ® clusters are bursting with crunchy pecans, creamy caramel, and all wrapped up in luscious chocolate.

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Ingredients. Filling: Blackberries, Sugar, Water, Raspberries, Apples, Modified Corn Starch, Corn Starch, Salt, Crust: Enriched Wheat Flour (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Water, Dextrose, Salt.

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A million-dollar pie recipe typically includes crushed pineapple, shredded coconut and crushed pecans, all held together by whipped topping and sweetened condensed milk. Maraschino cherries are common garnishes, as is a dollop of Cool Whip.

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