Let Them Eat Cake

Karl and I have discovered that owning a house comes with lots of expenses. While some people in this family are spending extravagantly on apples, we have been tightening our purse strings. I've started buying used clothes, we've been been trying to refurbish our existing furniture instead of buying new, and we're eating prison cake. That's right. Prison cake.

This recipe comes from a youtube strength trainer who spent some time in prison about 10 years ago. As soon as we saw the video and the combination of ingredients, we knew we had to try it. It seemed impossible that this could be edible, but it actually turned out pretty good!

Ingredients:

One sleeve of knock-off oreos (come on, you think they have real oreos in prison?)

2 tablespoons peanut butter

4 packets of honey

Half a can of cola (Shasta should do the trick)

First, begin by scraping off the filling from the cookies. Place the freshly scraped cookies in a ziploc bag

Add the peanut butter to the cookie filling

Stir until well blended

Use a can to to crush the cookies

They should look like this when they're thoroughly crushed

Pour your "cake mix" into a microwave safe dish

Add the honey. If you've had a pretty good month, add a little extra

Here's the surprisingly NOT disgusting part: add half a can of cola. We were at Karl's parents house, so they had the good stuff

Stir, baby, stir!

Put a cover on, but allow for some venting. Microwave for about 2.5 minutes

Add your frosting

We may need to work on Karl's frosting skills...

And enjoy! Congratulations! You just made cake for less than 2 dollars!