As promised, here is a photo of the Caramel Cashew Coconut Cornbread Cookie-bars as served. They don't look much different honestly, but there is a bowl and spoon for scale now... As posted yesterday here.
Save the turtles! The Turtle Bars from Book 2 Sup Sup Suppertime don't actually contain turtles, nor are they for turtles or look like turtles or have anything to do with turtles at all really, but here's an adapted version of the recipe for those chocolate haters out there.
I tried this no-chocolate version to see how they would turn out, and I think I may actually like them better. I present:
Caramel Cashew Coconut Cornbread Cookie-bars
So I substituted a cornbread mix for the chocolate cake in the recipe, eliminated the chocolate chips, and added cashews to the cake part and unsweetened flaked coconut on top under the caramel. Yellow cake would probably be sweeter, but the density of the cornbread was kind of nice. And I'm sure unsweetened shredded coconut would work just as well, just not the sweetened kind as it's likely to burn.
For those chocolate and coconut haters out there, I'm sorry but there's just nothing for it. Though seriously, you could probably substitute vanilla chips or just do cake mix, nuts, and caramel. Or you could try adding craisins so to still maintain the alliteration, but I have no idea whether they will be at all appealing with caramel - it didn't sound all that good to me (I did actually consider this) and I normally love weird wonky combinations of all the things...
I will try to photograph a serving on a plate but here's an overall over the top shot. An aerial landscape of the crazy concoction as it were.
