A Monday Night Treat

Let's start off with an easy one. This was a favorite recipe for our whole family and continues to be a never-fail (and never fail to impress) treat. Hard Shell. Yes, you can go to the grocery store and buy that waxy, filled with chemicals concotion called Magic Shell. But why cramp your fridge with another bottle of something while skimping on taste? You can get the real thing, with far better taste, right at home - with just 2 ingredients! Chocolate chips and butter. That's it. Mix two parts chocolate chips with 1 part butter. For us, a nice batch is 1 cup of chocolate chips, 1/2 cup of butter. Melt in a saucepan over relatively low heat. When totally melted and combined, let cool just slightly so it doesn't melt the ice cream on contact. Serve over ice cream and watch as everyone is amazed by the quickly hardening shell. And it's delicious to boot. Hard shell can be made with whatever type of chocolate chips you'd prefer - milk chocolate, dark chocolate, or semi-sweet. Semi-sweet happens to be our favorite. The leftovers can also be refrigerated and then remelted in the microwave whenever the urge strikes you. Make it a family tradition tonight!