Turtle Dessert
24 ice cream sandwiches
1 (12 1/4 oz.) jar caramel topping
1 1/4 cup toasted chopped pecans
1 (12 oz.) thawed Cool Whip
1 (12 1/4 oz.) jar hot fudge topping- heated
Place 12 ice cream sandwiches in a 9 x 13 baking dish. Spread evenly with caramel topping and sprinkle with 1 cup pecans. Top with 2 cups Cool Whip and remaining ice cream sandwiches. Spread remaining Cool Whip evenly over sandwiches. Sprinkle with rest of pecans. Cover and freeze for at least 2 hours. Let stand 5 minutes before serving. Cut into squares. Drizzle with fudge topping. Eat!
After our dear Mamie served this dessert to us a few years ago, we knew we had to have the recipe! However, we'd forgotten it for a year or two (confident it got completely lost in the much-too-large dessert category in our recipe box. Ahem.). Sunday night company meant pulling out a dessert, and we came up with this! Boy, are we ever glad we rediscovered it. It's easy to make + looks so pretty when cut into squares + soooo yummy. Enjoy!
xxx the Long ladies
PS Thanks so much for your sweet comments about our vintage goodies! We did post back a comment to a couple of you! xx
One of my families very favorite desserts!
Posted by: Kim | April 20, 2011 at 03:47 PM
Oh, YUM!!! I will have to make this sometime! :)
Posted by: Jenna | April 20, 2011 at 04:37 PM
Argh... I can FEEL the calories sticking to my hips, just from looking at it! I miss those high calorie-burning days of my teens and early 20s.
Posted by: Linda H. | April 20, 2011 at 08:40 PM
yummy!!
Posted by: Sarah-Anne | April 29, 2011 at 10:17 AM