Mini Peanut Butter Brownies FAIL

Well, that was dumb.

This one I'll tell completely though picture captions!

So, it all started with this mess. Remember the amazing PB Cupcakes I posted about a little while back? Well, this goop was the first attempt at the frosting for said cupcakes. I added WAY to much peanut butter and then let it sit on the counter for a couple of hours until it started to ooze oil.

Now, I know that it's still perfectly fine, it's just not pretty which means I can't use it as a frosting for cupcakes. I then decided to use a box of brownie mix and this stuff to make these awesome little bite size treats that I was going to call "Brownie Peanut Butter Cups" I put a large star tip in the corner of a disposable pastry bag and then filled it with the gunk.

 

This is the brand I used, because it was on sale.

I decided that adding a Banana would make the brownies more moist and add a nice flavor.

 

Mashed Banana

I prepared the brownie mix according to the package direction, and added the mashed banana. That was my first mistake, I should have added the banana first then gradually added the other ingredients until it mixed up right.

I filled Tablespoon full batter into the mini wells *feels like I'm missing somethin* Looks good, oven is preheated to 350.

I squeeze the filling into the center of each little cake *still feels like I forgot something* they look awesome! I pop them into the oven and bake for about 15-20 minutes. I take them out and cool them. When they're finally cool enough to eat I try to pop one out.

And then remember what it was I had forgotten. I had forgotten to grease the pan. Me, Ilsa! The gal who's been baking since I was like 6 forgot to freckin grease the pan!

You can imagine how frustrated I was. We managed to pry them out one at a time, they weren't pretty but MAN did they taste every bit as good as I had hoped. Next time I WILL grease the pan!

I hoped you enjoyed this Fail Friday post!

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Peanut Butter Krispy Treat FAIL

  Sometimes, things don't work out.

I'm trying out a new thing. I'm calling it "Fail Fridays" seeing as how baking and experimenting in the kitchen leads to tons of Failures I thought it might be fun for you all to read and laugh along as I share some of my mishaps.

The Other day I noticed that I had a bunch of Rice Krispy cereal, and as I'm sure you know is no good just eaten as a cereal. No, Rice Krispy's are only good for 1 thing, making treats. I had also noticed that I had what I thought was 1/2 a bag of sligtly melted marshmallows, and some sugar free chunky peanut butter that my husband refuses to eat (the kids and I wont eat the chunky kind) so I thought to my self "I bet these would make some awesome peanut butter rice krispy treats!" and set to work. First I emptied what was about 3/4 of a 16 oz jar of SF PB into my high heat pan (use to be a pressure cooker but, the lid doesn't fit so well anymore.) and cranked up the heat to high until it melted. Once the peanut butter was all gooey I added the marshmallows (which was closer to about 1/3 of the bag) to the goop and let that all melt together. Mean while, I poured out about 5 cups of rice krispy cereal and waited and debated within my self on weather I should lower the amount of cereal.    I decided to ignore my instinct and just leave it as it was because I was running short on time before the princesses stormed the kitchen. The goop in the pot was ready so, I poured it onto the cereal and mixed it all together. After mixing for a while I realized that it just wasn't going to come together like I had hoped. It looked like maybe, if I froze them it would help them hold so, I filled a muffin tin with 12 liners and stuffed them with the "treats" and then popped them into the fridge, you know, because that's pretty much the same thing as a freezer. I had quite a bit left over which I ended up smooshing onto some parchment paper on a jelly roll pan, I use plastic baggies as gloves and pressed as hard as I could in hopes that it would help it hold together. Now, once I got this pan all smashed up I did place it into my deep freeze. 

Fast forward a couple of hours and the princesses are ready for their treats, I pull out the krispy muffins and serve them expecting oo's and ahh's from my masters. Instead they feed them to the dog. I ask what was wrong with them, their answers? "They were to crumbly, they tasted good but we don't like messy crumbly treats" So, all my work, all my creativeness was for naught. Another failed recipe. Next time I think I'll make sure I have a whole bag of Marshmallows if I must use 5 cups of cereal, or shrink down to 3 cups if I don't have everything I need. I had to agree with my critics though, they did taste good and would have been a success if not for the crumblyness. I'm ok with it though, I honestly believe that though failure we often learn the best.

All the treats when to the trash can, I would have fed them to the pooch but the SF peanut butter had Malitotol syrup in it and that has been shown to give dog's cancer, which I don't think would make me popular with my kids because I'm not paying for chemo for my dog.

May your tummy always be full and you kitchen adventures full of failure.

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