Cooking Fail

In the past I have made some things before that looked horrible, but tasted just fine. This might just be the first time that the exact opposite happened. Looked fine, tasted awful!

So a little while ago we finished up a late lunch/early dinner of the crock-pot taco soup, topped with a few crushed tortilla chips, shredded cheese, and a dollop of sour cream- super YUM! I was feeling pretty energetic so I thought I'd get back in the kitchen and whip up some no-bake cookies for Jason since he's not feeling well. While I was gathering my ingredients I saw the big bag of granulated Splenda in the pantry, and thought "Hmmm... you can use Splenda in baking and such- why not in no-bake cookies? Let's give it a whirl."

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So I continued making the cookies as usual, substituting the Splenda for sugar. Everything looked great- the cocoa mixture cooked up just fine, smelled fine, looked fine. Mixed in the vanilla, peanut butter and oats. Spooned it all out on the cookie racks. Everything was peachy.

Then I licked the spoon. MISTAKE! Argh! I can't even descibe what they tasted like- nothing remotely edible. Jason came in the kitchen looking for his favorite cookies and all I could do was laugh. He was like, "What? Do they taste different?" I said, "Well see for yourself."

Let's just say I let him do the honors of laying the cookies to rest in the trash can. And the worst part is now he is sad that there are no cookies, and I can't muster up any motivation to make them the right way. Maybe later on...