Monster Chocolate Cashew Turtles

Total Time: 40 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• 8 ounces dark semi-sweet chocolate chips
• 12 ounces heavy whipping cream
• 8 ounces sugar
• 2 ounces water
• 1/2 teaspoon lemon juice
• 4 ounces heavy whipping cream
• 6 ounces cashews, dry roasted, salted
• 16 ounces dark semisweet chocolate

Recipe

• 1 heat the first heavy cream in a small sauce pan.
• 2 bring to a simmer and remove from heat.
• 3 place chocolate chips in a stainless steel bowl.
• 4 pour hot cream over chocolate and stir with a rubber spatula.
• 5 place paper muffin cups into a muffin pan. pour ganache into paper cups ¼ inch thick.
• 6 top with toasted cashews and cool in freezer.
• 7 for the caramel:.
• 8 heat the second cream in a small pan up to the boil.
• 9 shut off heat and keep warm.
• 10 in a large sauce pan, combine sugar water and lemon juice and cook to a medium caramel color. be extremely careful -- this will be 'very hot'.
• 11 remove from heat and carefully add the hot heavy cream.
• 12 stir until a smooth caramel.
• 13 caution, use a cooking vessel much larger than necessary because the hot caramel will boil up and could splatter.
• 14 allow to cool to a honey like thickness.
• 15 spoon the caramel on top of the cashews. place back in freezer for 15 minutes.
• 16 remove paper cups and place turtles on a wire rack.
• 17 melt dark chocolate and spoon over turtles.