Cap’n Crunch Brownies
My husband and son are all into those survival shows.
You know, where they drink their own pee and eat soup made from grasshopper legs and all that.
Honestly, I think the whole thing is really dumb. My son is all “but mom, if I’m ever stranded in the wilderness, I’ll know how to survive and get rescued” and I’m all “well duh, I don’t ever plan on putting myself in that position to BEGIN WITH”.
Because really, there is no excuse for a grown human to be wandering the desert with nothing but a pocket knife, a piece of string, and a handkerchief.
In my opinion, if you really want to teach people to survive, show them how to live off a waitress salary by smuggling dinner rolls and maraschino cherries home in a to-go cup. Way more realistic.
A crash course in Ramen noodles and how far you can get with $2.78 worth of gas without getting stranded are also pretty handy survival lessons.
Just saying.
The thing about these survival people is that they always wear super expensive clothes. I’m thinking HELLLOOOO, if you can afford $200 North Face boots, why are you clomping in the wilderness picking berries out of deer poop? So confusing.
At least I can do what I need to do in $19.99 wedges from Payless. So…yeah. Pretty sure I”m the real survival expert around here.
Actually, I might even start my own survival show.
I can teach stuff like how to do your own custom pedicure with a nail art pen. Way funner than drinking your own pee because I don’t care what they say about it being cleaner than most stuff we drink and blah blah blah we all know that there is NO WAY THAT IS TRUE.
Seriously, there are some scientific facts that I just know smart people made up to mess with our minds.
Then they sit around and laugh and do smart equations on their calculators while we drink pee on television and freak out thinking our computer keyboards are dirtier than public toilets.
Anyways.
Besides survival, I am ALSO a brownie expert. So…when I saw THESE brownies on How Sweet I knew I needed to try them. But because I hate doing EXACTLY the same thing as someone else, I added a Cap’n Crunch twist.
Which was a good call. Sugary cereal always is, though, isn’t it?
(click HERE for printable recipe)
**adapted from How Sweet It Is
You’ll need:
9×13 pan of brownies, UNBAKED (you can use mix or homemade)
6 Reese’s Cups, chopped (or 30 mini ones, chopped)
1 1/2 cup milk chocolate chips
1 1/2 cup creamy peanut butter
1/2 tablespoon butter
2 cups Cap’n Crunch cereal
Bake brownies according to directions, but remove from oven 5 minutes early. Top with chopped Reese’s and return to oven for 5 minutes. Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack.
In a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, melt peanut butter, chocolate chips, and butter. Stir in cereal until evenly coated. Spread over brownies. Refrigerate for 2 hours before cutting into squares and serving.
I hope you love these as much as I did!!
Have a happy Tuesday!!
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Goodness gracious! These look delicious and have just about everything a girl could want!
My husband and son like those shows, too. What is it with thinking you are going to get lost in the wilderness for days on end that you have to watch a year’s worth of tv to prepare?
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Everything you just said was sooo true! I’d totally watch your show :)
Are you freakin’ kidding me???????? These are the best brownies ever!
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Mmmmmm these look yummy! My kids would love them!… I love the new look on the page!
Are you freaking kidding me? (Am I allowed to say “freaking?”) I am all like yeah yeah brownies…then slam. You rock my liitle brownie world. Oh and you can be assured of my love for you by the fact that I’m commenting from my Nook- which I never do because it is so freaking annoying to type on this thing. Oh I said freaking again didn’t I?
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Girl, I hear ya – Brian watches these gag worthy shows all the time! These brownies look like a great way to lure him away from the television so I can steal the remote!
This new look is GLORIOUS!! Love, love, love it. Love you like cereal in my brownies. Or brownies in my cereal, whichever. I’ll take both.
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Why you gotta judge the pee drinkers in Northface boots?! lol ;) And those brownies. OH. MY. WAISTLINE! Those look soooo good. I’m half tempted to run to the dollar store for some Reeses ;)
What a fantastic idea! Captain Crunch is one of my favorite cereals, can’t wait to try this recipe!
Lisa @ Dishes of Mrs. Fish recently posted..Farmer’s Market Fun
Ummm – since these have cereal in them can I eat them for breakfast? Yes? Fantastic. Thank you very much :)
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You had me at cap’n crunch! A cereal that i often eat as a snack. These look so good!! Need to make asap!
Laudy Laudy Laudy those look goooooood! I thought I had heard it all when it came to brownies. That’s a definite MUST TRY!! :)
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Oh my goodness. I need to make these an hour ago because I haven’t had Cap’n Crunch since 1992 and it was my favorite cereal back in the day. Unfortunately, it’s almost midnight and my husband will think I’m crazy if I make him go to the store at this hour for “another crazy baking project.” Especially since I made brownies yesterday. They don’t count, though. I mean, there’s no candy or marshmallows or cereal or anything good mixed into them at all, so they’re practically health food.
You can add to the show how to feed and support two people with one retail job. Oy. I think wandering a desert island would be easier. Especially if they get to have $200 shoes. I’m actually jealous of the poo-scavengers for that.
Also, about pee being clean. “Clean” just means no microbes in it. Probably because bacteria think it’s just as gross as we do. Seriously. Ew.
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I really don’t know how I stumbled upon your blog, but I have your favorite coffee cake bookmarked and everytime I come to this site it’s the first thing i see. Of course I haven’t made it yet. But I have good intentions.
Anyway.
I wanted to tell you that I think I might love you. Which is probably creepy but fear not, I am on the west coast and spend too much time perusing your blog and reading what you write (You are HI.LARIOUS!! ) to actually stalk you. And even if I did you would only have to throw me a cupcake and I’d be good.
(I really am a nice person and note even remotely creepy. But I might still love you…)
I don’t get those shows either, I don’t think winning challenges and outsmarting other teams would really come into play if you were stranded in the wild. Not that I plan on finding out, I ‘d rather be eating these brownies in the safety of my own home.
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Yum! I made the How Sweet version a while ago and loved it! This is a nice twist and I definitely need to try it sometime!
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I dont know which I enjoyed most, your writing, or the recipe! :)
I agree that you’re the real survivor expert. I mean, come on. I could live off these brownies forevermore. Well, until I expired from happiness anyway.
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My husband and kids watch those shows too and I DO NOT GET IT! They are also in the zombie apocalypse, which I’m like…why would I want to learn how to live in a world filled only with zombies anyway. makes no sense.
But these brownies make complete sense. because they rule, and there is also no pee involved, which I consider a plus.
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I’m out on the wilderness shows when they start drinking pee! Too gross! Now we are on to the Swamp People show.
Love, love, the Cap’n Crunch great addition!
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OMG…my husband totally has a man-crush on Bear Grylls. Like, if we ever ran into him in real life, I would suddenly feel the need to drink my own pee so I could prove to my husband that I’m cooler than Bear Grylls…ew. I’m hoping that never happens, not because I’d be drinking my own pee, but because if we ran into Bear Grylls somewhere that means we’d probably be stranded in the middle of the wilderness.
You could totally have your own survival show though, you’re the Macgyver of sugary sweets! These brownies look amazing :)
I am totally on board with the Cap’n although the roof of my mouth is not :O) My survivor show would be to lock those $200. boot wearing,pee drinking fools in a house with my 2 boys (2 &4) for a day in a snow storm/ down pour etc they would have to enterrtain them, cook for them etc ..and just for giggles turn the shut the power down midwaythrough one of the kids favorite shows…….I wonder how long they would survive before raising up a white flag in defeat . :O)
Only you could do a post on brownies and make the whole thing about drinking pee and I STILL am dying to try the brownies. :)
I just made Jessica’s version and they were so good! I love how you added Cap’N crunch to them—I actually had that and cocoa krispies for breakfast today–I liked mixed cereals, lol.
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When your standup tour starts I need tickets for the first row.
And your autograph.
And some brownies.
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I love Capn Crunch! We were only allowed to eat it very rarely when I was little…this is kind of like a smack in the face to all those little kid rules…not only do you get to eat capn crunch, you get to eat it on top of brownies! With peanut butter!
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I would much rather watch your show than any “manly man” show! Pitch it to the Style network. Let’s face it, with the rising cost of EVERYTHING, a girl really has to find ways to keep looking good on a budget.
texture…i like that :-) im a cap’n crunch kid
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SO true! My husband likes those shows, too! I never thought about the clothes….but you are so right! Love the brownies!
At least your husband and son have you to pack them with these delicious treats in their foray into the wild!
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definitely smarter than survivor . . . in fact, if i could choose two people to be stranded on a desert island with? the prof and you . . . for sure!!
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this is the way to eat captain crunch..that way it isn’t scraping the top of your mouth raw. THANKS!
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One of my favorite cereals in a brownie? I love it, and I bet the texture variation is incredibly fun!
Humour is one of life’s best survival tools and you are so well equipped to survive anything, in your $19.99 Payless Wedges or not!
Great Brownie Recipe :)
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High praise from a 17 year old boy (my son)…”brownies AND capn crunch! When are you making these?” Your creative recipe mojo just made me cool mom of the week :) Thanks!
Oh my god (I don’t abbreviate) I just stumbled on to your blog. You are hillarious! I haven’t even got past the cherry limeade pie post and had to comment. I will keep looking around, I know I will find recipes I’ll love to make. Thanks for the giggle. Mari from Iowa, it’s hot here too.
I cannot wait to make these they look divine! Love the site redesign, its gorgeous! Thanks for sharing so many fun recipes.
Oh my. One of my favorite cereals in my favorite baked good. I’m in trouble now.
BTW, LOVE the new look, Kristan! Just perfect. :)
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I just can’t stop laughing long enough to really think of a witty comment. I’ve just about wet my panties.
Bye.
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I made these last night—OMG!! they are so good…friends at work said I should be ashamed at making something so sinfully yummy. Thank you for sharing with us
These brownies sound amazing! Thanks always for the laughs!
i watched one of ‘those shows’ with the hubby the other night. when bear grylls peed in his canteen and used it as a hot water bottle to keep from freezing in the tundras of scotland, i thought of you. hows that for flattery? :)
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Kinder words have never been spoken. Thank you darling Sandee. :) xoxo
I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t getting you in my Google reader until I read this post. THANKS! I really missed you :)
I just found your blog and you are hilarious!
These brownies sounds amazing. I can’t wait to try the recipe.
I am so happy I came across your blog. Your posts make me laugh and I loved your rant about JOTS. Plus captain crunch in a brownie? Amazing!! And your cupcakes are beautiful! Following :D
Cap’n Crunch makes everything better. I heard a rumor a while back that they were discontinuing it, though. Have you heard that? Made me cry.
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OMG i can feel lots of happiness only by browsing your blog!!!
i cannot wait to try your recipes!!!!!!!! Thanks for sharing:)
LOL! I would totally watch your survival show. And, I love your version of these!! I haven’t had Cap’n Crunch in years and now suddenly I must go out and buy a box.
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These were INCREDIBLE!!!! I love them and they were easy to make. =)
Hi Kristan!
Wanted to stop by and let you know that I tried this recipe last night and posted about it on my blog, linking back to your recipe. Hope that’s okay… :)
Oh dear sweet lady, If I weren’t married already, i think I would ask for your hand. These just look sinful and awesome and everything you want in a good treat. I think I love you,
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