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  Sweet Heart Brownies
  What do you get when you mix graham cracker crumbs and chocolate morsels? Love at first bite. Earn brownie points with this Valentine's -- or any other day.
  
  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
  
  Instructions
  Preheat the oven to 350 degree (325 degree 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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  
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