Cheating, but effective

Ok, so my entire life, if there was a bake sale or anything that required baked goods, my mom would always bake home made chocolate chip cookies. I always thought this was standard and then I started to realize that some parents take the easy way out with buying things or...rice cereal treats. Maybe it is because I really am not a big fan of cereal treats but I always thought that they were getting credit for a baked good when all they did was mix marshmallows with cereal. Well, someone pinned this the other day. It looks amazing huh?

They are cereal treats made with Trix fruity swirl cereal. Now...I am not big on fruity cereal or cereal treats but they just look yummy.

Well this week is COMM Week. I am a Communications Studies major and my class is giving a presentation during it (mine is on this blog!) so I decided that I would make something from Pinterest for the presentation...with my crazy schedule..good idea, huh? Well, that is what cheating is for. Taking the easy way out. That is what I did. I went to the store, bought cereal and marshmallows, used butter from my mom and my dads baking sheet...

Then melted the marshmallows and butter...mixed with cereal...TA-DA

Now, mine isn't nearly as nice as the ones that were pinned but they are effective!

So going back to my original theory. Cereal treats are cheating..yes..because they are wayyyyy too easy BUT they are effective.