Brownies

On Wednesday night I was invited to a wedding shower for one of my dear friends. Being a close friend, I was asked to bring food. As a working college student, I don't have time to bake anything extraordinary, but I agreed to bring brownies. Box mix, add eggs and oil, done. Well, it turns out that I had a major project due Wednesday morning and a full day for all of Wednesday and no time to bake. I realized this on Tuesday, and broke down and decided to buy a box of frozen brownies. Although I had no time at all, I knew I could at least manage to pop them in the oven while putting the finishing touches on my project.

I went straight from the grocery store to a friend's apartment to collaborate for the project, taking the brownies with me. I worked at her apartment for several hours before coming back to my own apartment and then placed the brownies in the freezer. The next day, true to my expectations, I was totally swamped, but had 30 minutes before the shower began -just long enough to pop my pre-made brownies in the oven. After digging around and finally finding a cookie sheet, I opened the box, ripped off the plastic, to find----

that the mix had somewhat melted and all slid to one side and now only filled half of the pan. An unforeseen mishap!

I spent a few minutes holding the pan halfway in the oven in an attempt to 'melt' the mix enough that it would even out. Realizing it was a fruitless attempt, I grabbed a spoon and muscled the mix until I was able to even it out. The mix was then very choppy, however, and I was afraid the brownies would be choppy, uneven, and ugly. I put them in the oven anyway, and sat back for 20 minutes.

When the timer went off, I apprehensively checked the oven, and the brownies were beautiful! Perfect! Gorgeous! I hurried off to the party, managing to only be 5 minutes late, and the brownies were stupendous. Another mishap overcome!