Easy No Bake Turtle Dream Bars

These No-Bake Turtle Dream Bars will excite your taste buds with an Oreo cookie crust, cheesecake layer, chocolate pudding, caramel, pecans, and Cool Whip! It’s one of the easiest and most succulent no-bake desserts, much like my original Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars.

If you like chocolate, caramel, and pecans, you’re going to fall in love with this super easy dessert. 

It’s based on the other Dream Bar recipes I have here on the site. These succulent desserts are moreover known as lush desserts or as dessert lasagna considering of the layers. These dream bar desserts have seriously wilt a personal favorite. They are so easy to make, have lots of savor in each bite, are a huge hit with my readers, and I veritably LOVE coming up with new ideas for them! 

The Chocolate Peanut Butter Dream Bars way when in 2014 was the one that started it all. The original recipe had a baked cookie crust, but I’ve well-timed it and have since transformed it into a no-bake dessert as well, and people love it.
They have been so popular throughout the years that I knew I just had to create increasingly versions. 

Why is Turtle Candy tabbed Turtle?

Originally created in 1918 by the DeMets Candy Company, pecan pieces were covered in caramel and then encased in chocolate. The pecans resembled the throne and feet of a turtle, while the chocolate tent looked like a shell.

Hence the name for these turtle cookie bars! With every bite, you’ll enjoy a taste of chocolate, some sweet caramel, and some tasty pecans. The whole family has fallen in love with this turtle dream bar dessert and I think you will, too!

Ingredients for Turtle Dream Bars

• 20 Oreo Cookies – with the filling inside. No need to separate the cookies!

• 4 tablespoons butter, melted

• 6 ounces surf cheese, room temperature

• ½ cup confectioners’ sugar

• ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract

• 1 3.9-ounce package instant chocolate pudding

• 1 ½ cups milk

• 1/3 cup plus 2 tablespoons caramel sauce

• chocolate sauce for drizzling

• 1 cup pecan pieces

• Cool Whip or my Stabilized Whipped Cream

How to make Turtle Lasagna

First, we are going to make all the layers separately, and then we’ll go over how to hoke the dream bars.

1. Spray an 8 X 8-inch sultry dish with cooking spray, then line it with parchment paper. This will make it easier to cut into plane squares

2. Place the Oreo cookies into a blender or supplies processor to unravel them lanugo into fine crumbs.

3. Mix the cookie crumbs with melted butter and printing the crushed cookies into the prepared sultry dish.

4. Place into the freezer to set for a minimum of 30 minutes.

5. In a large bowl, use an electric mixer to mix the chocolate pudding mix with just 1 ½  cups of milk, not the 2 cups of milk tabbed for on the package. We want the pudding to be a bit thicker so you can slice through it. Place into the fridge to set.

6. In a mixing bowl, write-up the surf cheese until soft. Scrape lanugo the sides of the bowl, and add the pure vanilla pericope and powdered sugar (confectioners’ sugar).

7. With a rubber spatula, mix in one cup of the Cool Whip.

Dream Bar Assembly

1. Remove the husks from the freezer, place dollops of the surf cheese mixture on top of the cookie crust, and spread this surf cheese layer to all the sides.

2. Spread the pudding evenly on top of the surf cheese.

3. Drizzle the caramel sauce over the pudding, trying to completely imbricate considering it will be difficult to spread.

4. Sprinkle the pecan pieces over the caramel.

5. Cover the dream bars with the remaining Cool Whip.

6. Place the turtle lasagna into the freezer to nippy for a minimum of two hours surpassing serving. The caramel sauce may be runny, but that’s ok.

7. Let them sit out for 20-30 minutes surpassing serving.

8. Then remove the bars from the pan by lifting up the sides of the parchment. Drizzle the bars with spare caramel and chocolate sauces, and sprinkle with remaining pecan pieces either surpassing or without slicing into small squares to serve.

How to Store Leftover Turtle Lasagna

Make sure to nippy this no-bake dessert for at least 2 hours surpassing serving it. The pudding and cheesecake layers will firm up, permitting for perfect slices.

This no-bake dessert is full of perishable ingredients, including surf cheese and milk. That ways you need to imbricate it with plastic wrap or aluminum foil (or use an snapped container with a tight-fitting lid) and store it in the refrigerator when you’re not eating it. 

Keep the bars covered and chilled and they’ll stay good for up to a week!

Dream Bar Recipes

• If you like bananas, you’ll love the Banana Pudding Dream Bars.

• Want to finger like a kid again? Make these Circus Animal Cookie Dream Bars. They’re so colorful and fun that you might just want to stare at them instead of eat them!

• Remember ownership the Creamsicles off the ice surf truck as a kid? I made these Orange Creamsicle Dream Bars and they transported me to my diaper with every bite!

• Mint lovers go nuts for my Chocolate Mint Dream Bars, perfect for the holiday season! You’ll get just the right value of chocolate and mint in every bite.

• Do you have a thing for Speculoos cookies or cookie butter? Well, I’ve got you covered there, too, with these Biscoff White Chocolate Dream Bars.

• I’m a big strawberry fan, so I couldn’t resist making these Strawberry Cheesecake Dream Bars. They’re perfect for a nuptials or victual shower or plane for mom on Mother’s Day!

• And, of course, I’ve got you Oreo lovers covered as well with my Oreo Pudding Dream Bars. These bars are the stuff that dreams are made of!

If you make these Turtle Dream Bars, leave a review unelevated and let me know what you think. I think you’re going to love them as much as I do!

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