Rogue Pencil: Baked Maple Dessert

So, in the Canadian Forces, we have these things called Individual Meal Packs, or IMPs. (If you're interested in reading more, check out Operation RATION MAN, in which Darcy Knoll eats IMPs for 30 days and reports his results.)

Most IMPs are pretty predictable. They contain:

"Meat" (the "main course" of your meal, sealed in a metallic bag like soups in Europe)
"Dessert" (usually fruit, and in one case, creamed corn, also in a metallic bag)
dry "side dish" mix (eg: instant mashed potatoes, stuffing mix, soup...) if Lunch or Dinner
candy, chocolate or something sweet (or a fibre bar), if Lunch or Dinner
cereal, if Breakfast
Juice or Sports Drink crystals (and in newer ones, a little drink baggie)
tea bag or instant coffee, dry creamer, sugar (sometimes you get, like, Nescafe instant latte stuff)
bread, in older ones; sometimes you get tortillas for "Mexican" meals
salt, pepper, sometimes condiments like soy sauce, tabasco sauce, mango chutney, raspberry jam, honey...
long-handled plastic spoon and a towel-like napkin

I happened to be bored and craving sugar today (a rarity for me!) so I dug around my basement looking for something sweet. I came across the Baked Maple Dessert.

Anyone in the CF who has ever had a Baked Maple Dessert or a Baked Chocolate Dessert and is reading this...is probably flinching right now. These things are intense. The chocolate one is almost okay, because it isn't very sweet.

A baked chocolate/maple dessert is a dense brownie/blondie, soaked in chocolate/maple -flavoured syrup.

Also? One portion contains 690 calories. That's more than a Big Mac. That's more than a Whopper (which is more than a Double Stacker, which is more than a Bacon Double Cheeseburger). That's more than a Baconator (single). That's more than a venti pumpkin spice latte with whole milk and whip. That's roughly two cups of eggnog. ...I think you get the idea.

But hey, I was craving something sweet! So I plopped it into my bowl...