Comments on: Dutch Oven Chocolate Turtle Cake – My Best One Yet!

By: Sherri

Sherri — Sun, 02 Oct 2016 01:49:28 +0000

Wow…..make this for our Cub Scout camp out and it was a huge hit.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 18 Jun 2014 04:05:40 +0000

In reply to Brooke. Brooke, great suggestion! To be honest, it was a bit of a pain unwrapping all those caramels.

By: Brooke

Brooke — Thu, 29 May 2014 01:22:59 +0000

An easier way to do the caramel is to buy the dipping caramel that you find in the produce section by the apples. That’s actually what us suggested in the Turtle cake recipe in the Lodge Cast Iron cook book.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 10:54:02 +0000

In reply to Debbie. Debbie, I agree with the unwrapping caramels part! That took a little time. But I think the result was worth it.

By: Debbie

Debbie — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 01:40:10 +0000

This is a great cake. I have made many times and everyone always enjoys it. Have gotten lots of requests for it too. A little time consuming with unwrapping the caramels, but usually no shortage of volunteers to help as they sneak a few caramels when they are done. Always comes out delicious. Thanks for sharing the recipe.

By: John

John — Mon, 08 Apr 2013 15:20:12 +0000

After you baked the bottom layer of the cake and put the chocolate and caramels on what kinda of coal configuration did you use? I plan to use foil to line my dutch oven when i do this recipe do you think it will turn out the same?

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:58:36 +0000

In reply to Eric Davidson. Glad they enjoyed them!

By: Eric Davidson

Eric Davidson — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 17:00:20 +0000

I have made twice since the beginning of October, once for my scout troop. Both times were home runs!

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By: Gary hard

Gary hard — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 15:34:12 +0000

scott i think we have our recipe for a desert at our summer camp in july, sounds good…now we’re looking for a main dish…being from Pensacola Fl. we would like to use shrimp or fish…thanks alot enjoying the infomation from you…gary

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 05:33:26 +0000

In reply to michele morrissey. Michele, thanks for your comment--your dish sounds delicious, and it's a big advantage to be able to whip something like this up when there is power outage. Better than eating cold soup or something like that!

By: michele morrissey

michele morrissey — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:48:24 +0000

I’ll have to try this. I live in Connecticut and we just had a freak October 29 – 30th snowstorm that put the power out over the entire state for a full 8 days. During this time I cooked on the grill. But one day I decided to do spaghetti. I took my dutch oven, put it over maybe 12 coals to heat up. I put olive oil in the bottom, then put in diced onions. Cooked onions until they were transparent, added finely chopped carrots (carrots take the bitterness out and you don’t add sugar like some people do), and chopped celery. Sauted them for about 1o minutes. Then I took a large 1/2 inch thick pork chop and a 3/4 inch thick rib steak and let them brown. Then I dumped in a large can of tomato puree and a large can of petit diced tomatoes. I added italian spices, some crazy mixed up salt, put the lid on and let it cook for about 15 minutes. I took about a half cup of sweet vermouth and about a half cup of water and added that and mixed well. Check the celery to see if it was done enough (I could have cooked it longer, it was a little crunchy), then took the raw spaghetti, (about 3/4 of a box of Berrille regular spaghetti) broke it into half, then half again so the pieces weren’t more than 2 to three inches long, dumped it into the pot, stirred to get it mixed in. I covered the pot, and had a glass of wine while the spaghetti cooked.

It came out great!!! Took it to work the next day and since noone had electricity, it was greatly appreciated (work was powered by a generator so the microwave worked). Thanks.