Recipe: Turtles (candy)

Turtles
rec.food.recipes/Beth Starkey (1993)
Makes 18

2 cups pecan halves (or walnut)
36 caramels
3 Tbsp margarine
1/2 tsp vanilla
2/3 cup chocolate chips
1 1/2 tsp shortening

Put wax paper on baking sheet. Arrange nuts in clusters of 4 and place 1-inch apart.

Melt caramels and margarine. Remove from heat. Stir in vanilla till thoroughly mixed. Drop by teaspoons into center of cluster touching all 4 pecans to hold together. Cool.

Melt chocolate and shortening. Spread over caramels.