Corn Dog "Muffins" - Sunday Foodie Bits

I finally failed, guys.
Well, let me adjust that.
What I cooked up turned out the way it should have, but it was not at all what I had wanted, and not at all something I would recommend.

In the interest of being honest, I'm still going to share this experiment, but also in the interest of honesty, I will say I do not suggest anyone try this one.
It's not horrible, and it's not bad, it's just not good.

The recipe sounded brilliant - corn dog muffins. We love corn dogs over here - have I mentioned that we could eat like bachelors every day and be happy? Keep this in mind!
And somehow, I had a grand idea that it would be amazingly delicious. Super easy, too. And not at all weird.

I was wrong on all counts.

So far as the directions go, I had to improvise a bit:
First, I don't have a muffin pan. I know, though, that in no way did this affect the taste of the finished "product". I used a bread pan (I guess it's a bread pan?), which is the same kind of pan (the metal-y kind, not the glass kind) as a muffin pan would be.
Second, I don't know how this recipe was only going to make 24 mini muffins. I ended up with basically a whole "loaf" of the stuff...and I know how small mini muffins are. I don't think the math adds up!
Third, I should have thought a little harder about the fact that I was making a "loaf" and not mini muffins - this took almost an hour to cook!

This should have been a sign of possible failure. No, I don't know the size of the bowl, but it's what I easily consider a "large mixing bowl".

And this should have also concerned me - this is a regular loaf pan, and it's obviously brimming with this mixture of stuff (corn bread mix and hot dogs).

In theory, it should have been delicious. I love corn bread. Growing up, my parents would make chili and corn bread for dinner on a regular basis, and I loved it - because it meant I would get a large piece of corn bread to just eat like a cookie. Which is the only way to eat corn bread, so long as it is made right (which requires the consistency to be sort of like a brownie). I love the stuff.
And hot dogs aren't so bad. They're great when added to macaroni and cheese, and I love going to Costco for hot dogs (lunch for 1.50$, count me in!).

It looks good, right? Looks like bread! And yet...oh, and yet.

It did not stay together. At all. I know that cornbread can be cut into actual pieces. This does not normally happen.
I'm guessing it's the hot dog juices (which I somehow managed to get all over the counter when I was slicing them up, as they were extra "juicy" - don't think about it too much!).

And, really, it tasted like bleh. Like I said, not bad, but not good. The Mister didn't finish his. He didn't say it was bad, but he couldn't power through. I managed to, and had some more of it for lunch the next day (as I was out of bread for a PB&J, so my options were limited), but it was basically playing a game of finding the chunks of corn bread that tasted good, versus picking out the corn dog bits to eat separately. I still have half a container in the fridge that I need to chuck, as it's just not going to get eaten. Even ketchup couldn't fix this mess.

Finally, a recipe that won't get added to my collection.

~Havok