Seemed like a winning combination of ingredients.

These brownies were supposed to be over the top good! The list of ingredients seemed no-fail, rich, and decadently wonderful! But alas, I failed! I over filled the pan, so they took too long to bake and the top over browned. The inside was still under cooked. Both types of cereal I added became soggy and mushy. They fell apart and would not stay in bar form. The bites I did take had to be scooped up with my fingers. Despite all of these things, I still managed to shove five or six bites of the mess into my mouth! Note to self: do more research!

I can bake.  Meaning I am literally able to program my oven to heat up to a specified temperature, place a food item inside that heated oven, and then set a timer for the amount of time I would like that food item to be exposed to the specific temperature I set my oven to.

The fact that I am physically and mentally able to perform the tasks listed in the previous paragraph does not automatically indicate that whatever food item I remove from that oven will taste delightful.  Sometimes my experiments turn out the way I envisioned them in my head, most of the time these experiments do not, but they are still usually edible.  These brownies were semi-edible.  Meaning: I sort of like the flavor of slightly burnt, peanut butter laden, sweetened condensed milk.

But, since these brownies contributed to my 3 lb. weight gain (on Monday 06/18/2012 I weighed in at 135 lbs.) I felt that it was only appropriate to mention them.  Do not bake yourself a batch of these, they were not good, and certainly not worth the calories I bestowed upon myself by devouring  1/8 to ¼ of them! The frame of mind I was in at the time included thoughts like, “Must have sugar now even if the texture of it is mushy and it tastes like burnt chocolate peanuts! & “I should at least eat part of these since the ingredients were pretty pricey!” & ”Maybe if I have one more taste I will develop a fondness for them!”  I guess I believed I deserved to eat, burnt brownies with a nightmarish texture, after the ½ marathon.  I guess I also believed that I deserved to eat Taco Bell the night after the race as well.  Now, as of today, I have exactly one month to lose 10 lbs. in order to meet my 125 lb. goal!  I still have faith that I can reach this goal!  Hide & Watch!

I am not even going to write down a recipe for these brownies. I think I know what went wrong with these, (cereal became soggy while suspended in batter, too much brownie batter, and too much sweetened condensed milk) and I do not believe that this specific dream I had for them can be fixed.  I am now aware that these two types of cereal will not hold up to this combination of ingredients.