Gooseberry Patch Cookbook Contest

As many of you know, I LOVE Gooseberry Patch cookbooks. My love started for them when I worked in my moms country gift shop back in the day. I would sit and look at them when the shop was slow and I almost always put one on my birthday wish list. Many times my grandma would get one for me and I have quite a collection of them.  If you don't believe me then lets refer back to THIS post and take a peek at my collection! I have more but that is all that rack would hold! 

Anyway so on Facebook today I saw that Gooseberry Patch was holding a contest to take a picture of you, the GP cookbook and your favorite dish and send it end. Well of course I wanted to enter but the bad thing was that it ends TONIGHT and we are in the middle of a snow storm (like half the country!) so I had to make due with what I had on hand. Luckily I have MANY MANY favorite Gooseberry Patch recipes so I flipped to some of my favorites to see which would work with what I had on hand and ta daaaaaaa....one of my favorites! 

For the contest entry my little girl and I decided to make the Yummy Chocolate Crunch that was sent in by Rebecca Santelli of Mechanicsville, VA in the Country Quick and Easy Cookbook. My little girl is home today because like I mentioned ....LOTS OF SNOW...so she is having a snow day!

So, what do I love about this recipe? Well, first of all it is yummy! I always include it when we make goodies for Christmas and it is always a hit. Plus it is super easy, only takes 4 ingredients and doesn't take much time at all!

Here is the recipe (I hope it is okay to post this):

Yummy Chocolate Crunch

1 sleeve saltine crackers

1 c. butter

1c. sugar

12 oz. pkgs chocolate chips

Place crackers, side by side, in a 13"x9" baking dish lined with aluminum foil, until bottom of dish is covered. In a small saucepan, bring sugar and butter to a boil; stir for 3 minutes while boiling. Pour mixture over crackers and spread with spatula until all the crackers are covered. Bake at 350 for 10 to 15 minutes or until edges of crackers are golden brown. Immediately remove from oven, spread chocolate chips over all until melted. Freeze for 2 hours. Break into pieces. Makes 12-14 servings.

I followed the recipe exactly on one side of the pan hahaa but on the other after we spread the chocolate we put some Valentine sprinkles on the top just to jazz it up. We have also added crushed nuts before but really nothing is needed because it is perfect just the way it is.

Here are a few pictures of us working on our yummy snack/dessert and then the final product! Enjoy :)

Getting the crackers in the pan

Mixing up the butter and sugar

Mom, mom....MOM...take a picture of MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

and the contest entry...my daughter needs to practice her picture taking skills as we took MANY and this was about as good as it got! Please pay no attention to my dirty pans in the sink!

Thanks for the chance to win!