A Cook's Quest

Let me just preface this whole recipe review by saying, this recipe was strange.  I have no idea what possessed me to think that it was a good idea to make rolls from such a strange combination of ingredients, but I will say that after the final product emerged I have determined it won't happen again.  While the flavor was there, the texture was not.  These little rolls are supposed to be light and airy with a sweet taste to them. These were heavy and dense, very very dense.  A packaged variety can be  found in most grocery stores and they are a family favorite in my house. When Br1 requested hamburgers for dinner Sunday night I had the "brilliant" idea of serving sliders; you know little the burgers served on rolls with a variety of different toppings and are so delicious you want to eat at least three?  I didn't want to buy slider buns/rolls at the store so I went searching for a recipe.  I stumbled on this and thought the sweet...

I listed this recipe a few days ago on the Chocolate, Chocolate, and more Chocolate post with very high hopes of deliciousness.  Brownies are one of my favorite things ever.  Cheesecake is another of my favorite things.  Put the two together and I should be in dessert heaven.  Unfortunately, these brownies fall short.  I promised to post all 365 recipes whether they were successful or not, and here is my first disappointment.  As I prepared all my ingredients I was sure this would be another successful recipe. But even before it went into the oven, I didn't have a good feeling not good at all.  The cheesecake mixture was runny, maybe the cream cheese was too soft when I combined it with the other ingredients, and it wouldn't "marble" into the brownies creating a pool of raw cheesecake on top of a raw brownie batter base.  Honestly, knowing what I know now that the brownies are baked and cooled, I should have just eaten the batters with a s...