Sometimes Monday ...

 ... is a day for Cosmic Brownies.

I had a slightly traumatic morning yesterday. My BiL (lets call him Mark) needed to sign up for Medicare Parts A & B, but he is a bit of a hermit. No computer, no internet, no cell phone, and he views anything related to the government with skepticism and pessimism. I was going to use my laptop at my house because Mark doesn't have wifi, and he would be here with my my SiL, who would also be here using her cell phone to do whatever she could do. 

I'll spare you all of the painful details, but first we had to create a login.gov account, and that involved verification of his driver's license (which he hadn't brought along to my house, so my SiL had to drive back to his house to get it), a selfie, and his phone number. We had to do this six times before we were successful, then send my niece to his house to get a secret code from his landline. Once we finally managed to create this account, we were able to sign him up for Medicare in about 20 minutes, but the whole process took over 3.5 hours. Snarky comments from Mark and John didn't help at all, so my nerves were feeling quite jangled when we were finally done. Last week, my kids had been telling me about Cosmic Brownies, so I thought baking a batch of them might help take the edge off. Maybe not the healthiest of coping mechanisms, but a brownie could possibly help.

The brownies only took a few minutes to put together and 20 minutes to bake. 

 

 

Then I had to let them cool off before I made the ganache for the top.   

I poured the ganache over the top and waited for the whole thing to cool.

 

They are pretty good! I like dense, fudgy brownies, and the ganache takes them over the top. I've never had a Little Debbie Cosmic Brownie, so I can't really compare them, but I think one or two of these will definitely take the edge off. I will be freezing most of them for the instigators Ryan and Justin so they are not sitting around at my house. Two of them were enough for me (unless I find out that the frozen ones are even better). 

I wish you a delicious and frustration-free week.