Here’s a gooey chocolate caramel turtle cakrolle recipe 🍫🥜
It’s rich, soft, and filled with chocolate, caramel, and pecans—no alcohol, just dessert goodness.
Gooey Chocolate Caramel Turtle Cake Roll
Ingredients
Chocolate cake
- ¾ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ cup cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 4 large eggs
- ¾ cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Filling
- ¾ cup heavy whipping cream
- 2 tablespoons powdered sugar
- ½ cup caramel sauce (store-bought or homemade)
- ½ cup chopped pecans
- ¼ cup mini chocolate chips
Topping
- Extra caramel sauce
- Melted chocolate or chocolate chips
- Chopped pecans
Instructions
- Prep
- Preheat oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Line a jelly roll pan with parchment and lightly grease.
- Make the cake
- Whisk flour, cocoa powder, baking powder, and salt.
- Beat eggs and sugar until thick and pale.
- Mix in vanilla.
- Gently fold in dry ingredients.
- Spread batter evenly in the pan.
- Bake
- Bake 10–12 minutes, until cake springs back when touched.
- Roll while warm
- Dust a clean kitchen towel with powdered sugar.
- Turn cake onto towel, peel parchment off.
- Roll cake (with towel) from short end.
- Let cool completely.
- Make filling
- Whip cream and powdered sugar until fluffy.
- Fill
- Carefully unroll cake.
- Spread whipped cream evenly.
- Drizzle caramel sauce.
- Sprinkle pecans and chocolate chips.
- Roll cake back up gently.
- Decorate
- Drizzle with caramel and melted chocolate.
- Sprinkle more pecans on top.
- Chill & serve
- Chill at least 30 minutes before slicing.
Tips
- Don’t overbake or the cake will crack.
- Use room-temperature eggs for best texture.
- Clean slices = wipe knife between cuts.
If you want a shortcut version, extra-gooey filling, or no-nuts option, I can adjust it 😊
