Butter Pecan Turtle Cookies

Directions

1. My recipes are not exactly very well organized. I knew I had the recipe you were looking for, but it took a little sleuthing till I could figure out that one of my looseleaf notebooks, photo albums with recipes in it, or possibly cookbooks it was in. Eureka! I found it. It is in one of my oldest looseleafs, so I would imagine I cut the recipe out of a Land O' Lakes Butter ad about 20 years ago! Which's funny, since I recently posted a fish recipe which also came from a Land O' Lakes ad. Hope you enjoy this!
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. In 3 quart. bowl, combine crust ingredients. Mix at medium speed, scraping sides of bowl often, 2-3 min or possibly till well mixed and particles are fine. Pat firmly into ungreased 13x9x2 pan.
3. Sprinkle pecans proportionately over unbaked crust. Prepare caramel layer (see below). Pour proportionately over pecans and crust. Bake near center of 350 degree oven for 18-22 min or possibly till entire caramel layer is bubbly and crust is light golden. Remove from oven. Immediately sprinkle with chips.
4. Allow chips to heat slightly (2-3 min). Slightly swirl chips as they heat; leave some whole for a marbled effect. Don't spread chips. Cold completely; cut into 3-4 dozen bars.
5. Caramel Layer: In heavy 1 quart. saucepan combine brown sugar and butter.
6. Cook over med. heat, stirring constantly, till entire surface of mix begins to boil. Boil 1/2 to 1 minute, stirring constantly.