Valetines Day With My Boys

Ahhh the smell of roses!

Yesterday my wonderful husband surprised me with a beautiful bouquet of roses at work. I was very surprised with the early gift. He is so sweet that he even got my friend - the only other female in the company- flowers too. Very thoughtful! I'm not big on surprises or being the center of attention, so I was relieved when we both got something.

The big gift came later that night...he got me a website domain:

cookingcinderella.com & cookingcinderella.net

So, now all we have to do is to have our friend host it, and start setting it up. It is something I had been talking about getting for a long time. It won't be set up for a little while, we have so many things going on- it is insane! But as least I have it and am looking forward to getting it up and running.

And of course what Valentine's Day is complete without some chocolate! I made my boys Chocolate Covered Strawberries, and Rocky Road Bars Brownie Bars.

Recipe for Chocolate Covered Strawberries:

Ingredients:

Strawberries

Wilton's Candy Melts

Directions:

Place Wilton Candy Melts in microwavable glass container and microwave at 30 second intervals stirring between each on. Do this until you get the smooth consistency for dipping. Then dip each strawberry and place on a cookie sheet. They set pretty quickly, but you can hurry them along by putting them in the refrigerator.

Recipe for Rocky Road Brownie Bars:

(from Betty Crocker)

Ingredients:

1 box Betty Crocker Supermoist milk chocolate cake mix

1/2 cup butter melted

1/3 cup water

1/4 cup packed brown sugar

2 eggs

1 cup chopped nuts

3 cups miniature marshmallows

*1/3 cup Betty Crocker Rick & Creamy chocolate frosting

*I used caramel and chocolate syrup for the drizzle instead of the frosting.

Directions:

1. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease or spray 13 x 9 pan.

2. In large bowl, stir together half of the dry cake mix, butter, water, brown sugar and eggs

until smooth. Stir in remaining cake mix and nuts. Spread in pan. Bake 20 - 25 minutes.

Sprinkle with marshmallows.

3. Bake 10 - 15 minutes longer. or until marshmallows are puffed and golden. *In microwavable bowl, microwave frosting uncovered on high 15 minutes, drizzle on bars. Cool completely about

1 hour.

*In this step, I used caramel and chocolate syrup for the drizzle instead of the frosting.