As you will notice, the recipe is both straightforward and easy to follow.

In my defense however, it is done using imperial measurement units rather than the more civilized metric units used in Australia.

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So I had to improvise a little 

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Which, in hindsight, is probably where the wheels fell off.  Oops

• Firstly, I decided to use a white mud cake mix instead of a normal cake mix.  Because I like chocolate
• Secondly, I chose to guess at what a pint was – and settled on “about the size of a chicken tonight jar”.  Because that’s what I had in the cupboard
• Lastly, when the recipe said “lightly grease the inside of the jar” – I took that to mean “empty half a can of spray oil into the jar and swish it around a bit”.  Because apparently I’m stupid

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The lessons I learned from all of this were

1. A pint is a lot smaller than I thought it was

What a pint is:

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What I thought a pint was:

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2. Use something a little runnier than mud cake mix

3. Use a wide necked jar or smaller spoons

4. Food colouring stains stuff and you really don’t need as much as you think you will

5. Greasing the jars does not mean half filling the jar with oil

6. When the cake isn’t cooked after the suggested 30 mins – put it back for a little bit longer, not another 30 mins.

7. Wiping down the inside of the jars would almost certainly  have been a lot easier BEFORE the cake and spray had been baked into them for an hour.

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Chocolate banana pancakes with bacon. YUMMO!!!

It’s Baconey

It’s Chocolatey

It’s Sprinkley

It’s on a Stick

It’s Chocolate Coated Bacon With Decorative Sprinkles

YUMMO

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1. Once you’re facing the open plane door, you realise how stupid you are to think that you’re capable of exiting the plane without a far more coordinated person strapped to your back.

2. Instructors and fellow jumpers will push you out anyway and laugh as you demonstrate the completeness of your grasp on expletives, threats and other colourful phrases.

3. The graceful “belly facing down” arch you plan on making somehow turns out to be an ungainly belly up/parachute down, arms & legs flailing wildly freefall which only ends when,

4. The parachute opens from underneath your body, whips around smacking into your arm like a fourbetwo being wielded by an angry builder,

5. Before opening and pulling you instantly from a 10G freefall to a complete and sudden stop.

6. The resultant concussion combined with distraction from the pretty scenery makes you forget to look where the parachuting company guys are telling you to be,

7. Until you look down and see the barbed wire fence you’re pretty much straddling.

8. Did you know that when parachuting, like when riding a bike, what you look at is what you head towards?  True fact!

9. Narrowly missing the fence, you then land in the only bit of uncleared land in the area and prepare to perform the roll which closes the parachute so it doesn’t fill with air and drag you off.

10. Unfortunately, for the chronically uncoordinated, rolling is a bit too challenging.  So you just flail around a little as the parachute fills with air and drags you across the uncleared paddock.

11. As much as you’d think that logs, stumps, rocks and various shrubs would stop you.  They actually don’t.

12. However, I did learn that people bounce.  At least I do.

13. Fortunately, large blackberry bushes growing over the barbed wire fence on the other side of the paddock have a little more stopping power.

And the lessons learned were:

• While the instructions tell you to grease the pan then put the paper in.  Unless you have been initiated into the mysteries of the paper and its non-stick secrets, you probably should grease the paper too.  Bacon brownies are somewhat more annoying to eat when you have to spit back bits of waxed paper with every bite.

• Bacon rind is a delicious part of the bacon experience, however it can give the brownies a “tied together” look and feel that can be somewhat annoying when trying to cut them.  It also distracts from the eating when a single bite pulls the entirety of the bacon out of the brownie.  For a better brownie experience, I suggest removing the rind before cooking.

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• Halloween

Rather than blue rinse

Rather a massive razorback of doom….

The dread boar of Brisbane in fact…

*Note: Snow may be invisible in real life.   (I can’t see it, but I know it’s there, I can feel it)

*Second Note: Pig may just be a figment of my imagination caused by eating too much chili & watching Razorback last night