A few weeks back, Chris had a food day at work. Of course, he didn't remember this until 9:00 PM the night before. I just can't bear the thought of taking in baked goods from the grocery store, so I was determined to whip something up with ingredients that I have on hand. It was slim pickins from my baking pantry, but I did happen to have some lemon cake mix and Rice Krispies that I got for close to free with coupons (yippee!). I've read some delicious-sounding recipes using cake mixes, so I decided to go on the hunt for a recipe which used a lemon-flavored one. I came across a recipe which only used four ingredients:

1. Lemon Cake Mix....check!
2. Rice Krispies....check!
3. Eggs....check!
4. Butter....check!

Lemon Crisps


1 package lemon cake mix with pudding
1 cup crisp rice cereal
1/2 cup butter
1 egg

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt butter; stir in all ingredients and mix well. Shape dough into 1-inch balls and place them about 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheets. Press flat with thumb. Bake for 9 minutes or until edges are golden. Cool on cookie sheets one minute, then remove to wire racks to cool.


Sounds easy enough, right? Well, let's play "Guess What Kylee Did Wrong." Perhaps you've already caught my mistake from the picture above. I wish I would have! The batter seemed pretty greasy, especially seeing a pool of oil around the cookies after I placed them on the sheet.


Even though they didn't look right, I proceeded to bake them "until the edges were golden." It only took a few minutes until I smelled burning. Out came these beauties:


Sadly, the whole batch got tossed in the trash can. I tried to sample just the center of the cookies, but they weren't cooked at all. In case you didn't notice from above, 1/2 cup butter is ONE stick! Grrrr! Although the recipe sounds weird even if it were to come out right, I might give these another try only because it got such great reviews. Let me know if you test these out and get better results!