Everyone’s feeling the pressure right now. Your to-do list is a mile long before you have to fly home or plan your holiday party or go to a handful of cookie exchanges. Presents need to be wrapped (or bought – eek), dinners need to be planned, and oh my God is Christmas really less than 2 weeks away? In short, you have no time, but the necessity or urge to have baked goods is still staring you in the face.

Well, fear not! These “turtles” are your savior in their speed, ease, and deliciousness.

I almost balk at calling this a “recipe” because it’s really not – you almost don’t cook anything (it could easily be done in the microwave even) yet it still impresses everyone come dessert time.  My mom gets these every year at her cookie exchange, and although I often giggle at their laziness in comparison to the other froufrou cookies they inevitably are the first thing gone from the tin. Because they’re amazing. Salty and sweet and chocolatey and just perfect. It’s like a chocolate-covered pretzel on crack and every bit as addictive as the analogy says.

Festive wrapping.

All laid out.

Mmmm melty.

Squish!

Sandwiches for those with nut allergies.

Chilling.

Decorative boredom.

They kind of look like turtles…

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Lazy Turtles

This is as easy as it gets. If you wanted to make it super kid-friendly, you could nuke them a dozen at a time in the microwave and then let the little ones press the Rolo with the pecan. Or even go more kid-fun and use red and green M&M’s instead of pecan halves for a festive color touch.  I made a second batch using a second pretzel in case people at work had nut allergies, so they were like sandwiches (yum). Just have fun!

Ingredients

• Rolos, unwrapped (or similar chocolate-caramel candy)
• Tiny twist salted pretzels
• Pecan halves (or any sweeter nut you like, or even red and green M&M’s like I said above)

Directions

1.) Preheat your oven to 350° F.

2.) Lay out the pretzels on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Top each with a Rolo. Pop in the oven and let them cook for about 1-2 minutes until the Rolos are soft, but not melting (this happens very fast!)

3.) Remove from the oven and then using the pecan half, press down on the Rolo until it flattens and covers the pretzel as much as possible.  Repeat as necessary until all are done and then either let set at room temp, or pop the trays into the fridge for 30 minutes or so until they’re set.

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