Recipes that, inexplicably, work

I found myself with 2 surplus pomegranates today which yielded almost 2 cups of pomegranate seeds. What's more, the seeds were a little too tart for me, so I set about looking for some baked good I could incorporate them into. I found a chocolate chip pomegranate muffin recipe that looked easy enough so I got started.
I decided to double the recipe so I wouldn't have any seeds left over. My first substitution, instead of 4 cups of flour I decided to do 2 cups oatmeal, 2 cups flour.
Next I remembered that we were completely out of milk- animal and vegetable. But I had some dry milk powder, so that was resolved easily.
After that I realized somewhat panicked that we had no chocolate chips! A travesty, I know, but I stopped buying them the 5th time I found Anna in my closet with a bucket of chocolate chips. So, after searching the cupboards I did find...Halloween candy! So I worked out a deal with the girls, and they let me take all the M&M's and sixlets - which wasnt much.
At this point I decided to just go for it and shoot for an excellent Recipe That Doesn't Work. So I did the ole' half oil, half applesauce trick. And instead of two muffin pans, like I thought I had, I found one regular muffin pan and one pan with 24 mini muffins. I guess we downsized during the move.
At this point the batter looked surprisingly good, considering what I had done to it.
I tried a few as they finished baking and they were not terrible, then I had one that was lucky enough to catch some of the chocolate, and it was Delicious! So next time, more M&M's and we'll be all set!
Thus concludes an unsuccessful unsuccessful baking attempt. Thank you for your time.