Tutorial Preview
Bite Sized
Here is a short promotional edit of this tutorial.
Highlights
Short of time? Watch the key learning points of this tutorial in under 4 minutes!
1. Mixing the ingredients
Paul starts by explaining then mixing the ingredients to create the cookie dough.
2. Balling up
Paul now weighs out then balls up the cookie dough.
3. lesson 3 - Finishing touches
Time to add some delicious decoration to finish off.
4. Pro Lesson
Paul offers our Pro members the costing and pricing suggestions for these cookies.
Paul’s Chocolate Turtle Cookies Tutorial 🍫🐢 brings together rich chocolate, delicious pecans 🌰, and gooey caramel 🍯 in one seriously indulgent bake. In this new tutorial, Paul shows how this classic flavour combination came to be, named after early chocolate treats that looked like tiny turtles, and how it evolved into a much loved cookie.
You will learn how to make a chocolate dough with depth, shape cookies that bake evenly 🍪, and add some delicious caramel to give that amazing balance. If you want a cookie that feels special ✨ but still achievable, click the link below and watch the full tutorial.
The tutorial opens by exploring the ingredients, making the dough, weighing out then baking the cookies. But there was one question that needed answered. Where does the name come from? The story goes that in the early 1900s, chocolatiers combined pecans, chewy caramel, and chocolate into small clusters. Once set, the clusters resembled turtles, with nuts sticking out like legs and a head. Home bakers later adapted this popular flavour combination into cookies, keeping the same ingredients while changing the format.
As the lesson moves into the baking process, Paul shows how to build a chocolate cookie dough with a deep flavour and a structure strong enough to hold a caramel centre. Viewers learn how to shape cookies evenly, press in fillings cleanly, and bake them to achieve soft centres with just the right amount of bite. Each technique connects back to the final texture and appearance of the cookie.
The tutorial also highlights ingredient choices, portion control, and baking times, helping bakers avoid common mistakes such as over spreading or hard caramel centres. Paul explains how small adjustments affect the finished result, which builds confidence and consistency.
By the end of the tutorial, viewers know how to recreate chocolate turtle cookies successfully from start to finish. They understand where the recipe comes from, how the name developed, and how to apply the same skills to other filled or chocolate based cookies in future bakes.
Don’t forget to share your interpretations of this wonderful cake with Paul and the rest of the CakeFlix community on our Family Facebook group.
View hundreds of more world-class tutorials only at www.cakeflix.com.
