Milk & Cookies

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Congratulations to my dear sister Lucy, who graduated from college this May! I had this Saltine bark at her graduation party and decided I had to try making it myself. So she gave me the recipe and it’s delicious!

Ingredients list:

• About 1 (maybe a little more) sleeve of Saltine crackers
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1 cup butter
• 1 11 oz. package of semi sweet chocolate chips
• 1/2 to 1 cup of walnuts (I substituted hazelnuts)

A Saltine platoon

Directions:

• Preheat oven to 350
• Cover a cookie sheet with foil. Line up the saltine crackers on the sheet to completely cover it. It should take 1 sleeve of crackers or a little more.
• Mix the brown sugar and butter and boil/heat it for about 3 minutes (microwave or stovetop).
• Pour mix over saltines.
• Bake 7 minutes.
• Remove tray from oven and cover with chocolate chips. Wait for them to melt and then spread the chocolate evenly over the crackers. Sprinkle the nuts on top.
• Put in freezer to cool.

Yummy

Basically, this is a layer of saltines, a layer of caramelized sugar/butter, a layer of chocolate and a layer of nuts. Hard to go wrong with that! The only problem I had is my caramel layer is a bit too chewy. I’m not sure how I could have fixed that – maybe bake it less time? Anyways, I think it’s worth it. Picking caramel out of your teeth is a small price to pay for something this delicious.