Craft for the month

Many of you know my sister and I get together once a week or so and attempt to make either a treat or craft. Well this week we got a little ambitious. We made a treat and a craft and surprisingly they both turned out great. Here is our treat and I will leave you the recipe just in case you want to try it. It was really easy and good!

Sweet Heart Brownies
RECIPE INGREDIENTS:
36 2-inch graham crackers
1 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk (don't use evaporated milk)
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/4 teaspoon salt
16-ounce package semisweet chocolate morsels
3/4 cup coarsely chopped pecans

1. Preheat the oven to 350° (325° for glassware). While you generously grease an 8-inch square baking pan, put your kids to work crushing the graham crackers into fine crumbs. It's especially easy and fun if you seal the crackers in a plastic bag and then use a rolling pin.

2. Stir together the sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract, and salt in a large mixing bowl. Add the chocolate morsels, pecans, and graham cracker crumbs and mix with a wooden spoon until well blended.

3. Spoon the batter (it will be very stiff) into the greased pan. Use the back of a wooden spoon (or clean hands) to pat the batter into an even layer. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes. Let cool completely in the pan.

4. Use a cookie cutter or a butter knife to cut out small (these brownies are rich!) heart shapes. Serve plain or with a scoop of vanilla ice cream or raspberry sherbet. Makes about 8 to 12, depending on size.

After we made that we Skyped my sister that lives in New Mexico and she showed us how to make these cute Valentine boxes. They would also work for any other holiday. Aren't they cute!! Very easy to make too, if you want to learn just let me know I would be happy to share this with you.