Homemade Corn Flakes

**Update!  Now that the joke's over, I will feel bad if anybody actually tries to MAKE these!  I've been getting a lot of google search hits.  This was an April Fool's joke.  I didn't actually do it and just made up random proportions....  Best of luck to you in your homemade, corn flake escapades!**

Is it just me, or is cereal surprisingly expensive?  

Since going dairy-free, I've been reading a lot of ingredient labels lately and one time I was looking at the ingredient list for corn flakes: milled corn, sugar, malt flavor, and 2% or less of salt.

I thought wow!  no crazy sounding ingredients!  I wonder if I could make that myself...  After some experimenting, this is what I came up with...

I started off with popcorn, and ground it (okay, I made the kids do it.  It's "fun"!) with my hand grinder into this:
 But you could just use cornmeal.  It's really a rather simple recipe!

Ingredients:
1 c cornmeal
1 T sugar
1 t baking soda
1/4 t salt
1 c water
Directions:

-Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
-Mix cornmeal, sugar, soda and salt in a medium mixing bowl and stir well to combine. (I use a wire whisk)
-Add water to the dry ingredients, until no lumps remain.
-Pour out into a big blob on your amazing Silpat (Pam-sprayed foil might work?  I haven't tried it) and smooth it out to a thin layer.
-Bake 25 minutes, or until golden.
- Let cool, and then break up into little corn-flake-looking pieces.




The main down-side is that one batch is only really one bowl of cereal... so you'd have to have a lot of pans and Silpats to make it worth it.  But seriously,  doesn't it look exactly like Kellogg's Corn Flakes?

That's because it is.

April Fools!! :)
(did I trick you?)