No Bakes Stink!!

I decided to throw together a quick dessert this week and tried No Bake Cookies. I guess I just assumed that since there was no baking involved, it would be a quick fix....boy, was I wrong!!

This was the recipe:

2 cups sugar
1/2 cup butter
4 Tbsp cocoa
1/2 cup milk
3 cups oatmeal
1/2 cup peanut butter

Cook sugar, butter, cocoa and milk for 4 minutes. Add peanut butter. Mix well. Pour over oatmeal. Drop on wax paper.

Let me just tell you that everything looked like it was going great until I started dropping them onto the paper. Now, I was out of waxed paper so I used foil. At first I didn't know if that was the problem until I consulted with some of my facebook friends and they informed me that it shouldn't have made a difference. A million things were thrown at me as to what could have went wrong; not cooked long enough, cooked too long, needed certain brands, humidity, etc...I got this recipe out of the RCB Band Cookbook that Cameron and I have been cooking our way through. I have yet to have any luck in the dessert section of this cookbook. The last dessert I made didn't come out right either! I have made a few hundred desserts from random cookbooks and have never had the results that I have in the book....boo RCB Band cookbook!!

I never want to attempt no bakes again, but we all know that is a lie...I insist on getting it right, but for now...I will just enjoy my pile of no bake.