A friendship day treat!

So, according to my my LP (life partner) - who oddly enough has some unexplained fascination with Finland - in Finland Valentine's Day is celebrated as Friendship Day! YAY! To say Happy Friendship Day in Finnish it's hyvää ystävänpäivää! (pronounced something like :Hu-VA us-ta-van-PI-va. or something)

Last wknd, LP and our friend from college and I spent our saturday making friendship day cards! As it was noted, or more than one occasion - what do three, young, attractive ladies do on a saturday night in New York City? What else? craft and eat, clearly.

So, are any of us surprised that somehow all I managed to make were cards with uteruses (uteri?) on them?

somehow these uteri ended up looking fairly svelte, with a surprisingly hourglass figure. what can i say? some of them even had googly eyes. One of them was even shedding it's uterine lining. HAPPY V-DAY TO YOU TOO! I mean, who DOESN'T want a uterus card on V-Day?

So - for Friendship Day - here's a wildly unhealthy chocolate Friendship Day treat. It's pretty easy to make too!! I stumbled across it somehow - Luscious Chocolate Raspberry Bars on a website called Kaboose.

Here's the problem with baking - it's that you see everything that goes into baked goods, and you either still want to eat them or never want to see another baked good again. a fairly easy moral dilemma, i guess. :) I mean it's chocolate. The other day, I kid you not, I started to get worried that i wasn't eating enough vegetables, and then thought - oh, well i eat about 2 servings of chocolate a day. so no worries. WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME.

Here's your shopping list for Raspberry Chocolate bars:

2 sticks butter

2 cups flour

1/2 cup packed brown sugar.

1/4 tsp salt.

Beat the butter til fluffy - add in flour and brown sugar. It'll be thick and hard to mix - almost like bread dough. I broke down and kneaded it with my hands.

Take 1 3/4 cup of the dough and press it into the bottom of a greased 13 x 9 baking pan. (Grease well). Keep the rest of the dough.

Bake at 350 for 10 -12 minutes, until the edges of the cookie base are starting to brown.

Meanwhile.....

take 1 cup Chocolate Chips

1 can (14oz) Sweetened Condensed milk

melt over a low heat until melty and smooth.

Also - while you're at it - take 1/2 cup chopped nuts and add them to the left over cookie dough. They say the chopped nuts are optional - and I'm not usually a nuts girl myself, but this time I think they're pretty necessary.

So - now your cookie dough is baked and a little bit brown -

perfect!

While still hot - take the chocolate mix and pour that sucka right on top.

take the extra dough/nuts mix and crumble it on top of the chocolate.

Now take seedless raspberry jam (the cheapest you can find, it doesn't need to be anything fancy) - about 1/2 cup. Drop it in teaspoons over the cookie crumble. (use as much as you want)

Sprinkle another 1 cup of Chocolate chip on top as well!

It'll look something like this:

Bake at 350 for 25-30 minutes. If you want - take it out at about 20 minutes, and stir the raspberry jam/chocolate chips that are on top together. or you can leave it like it is. It's UNBELIEVABLE either way.

It'll kind of set in the oven - but not really. so just take it out when you're ready.

You have to let it set, for a good 30 minutes at least. It really won't come out of the pan otherwise. (although, if you're just looking for it to be delicious, dig into that sucka with a spoon.)

I brought these to the Corpses meeting that we had on Friday. one of our other corpses took a bite, and grabbed my arm and looked like she might pass out in sheer delight.

THEY ARE THAT GOOD.