Food-based trust issues

I like to think that I'm a pretty good cook, and have had success in making most things I set out to make, many recipes coming from Pinterest. But sometimes I think Pinterest is like a person that pretends to be your friend that really isn't (often referred to as "frenemy," but definitely not by me (and they mostly don't exist in my life or the lives of people I know (because that's weird when you're an adult and people should just be nice (unless they're websites (yeah, this many parenthetical happenings right now))))). Sorry that was a little out of control. It's okay if you didn't follow that, wasn't that important anyway.

So Pinterest is all, "Hey, Erica, check out this sweet recipe for a single serving chocolate chip cookie. Doesn't it look soooo yummy?"
And I'm like, "Yeah, P! It totally does!" I can give websites nicknames if I want. And then I make it and I'm not sure how I turned these totally normal cookie ingredients into a spongy cardboard, but, by golly, I did.

Tonight I tried to make baked chocolate pudding. Somebody played a cruel joke on me. What came out of the oven over an hour after the allotted bake time was a far cry from the drool-inducing picture on the website. Shall we compare?

Recipe full of deceit and lies:

Doesn't it look heavenly? So gooey and scrumptious and perfect for ... eating. Obviously.















What I made:

This crap. There's not much more I want to say about it. Okay there's one more thing I want to say about it.
How is it possible for something to be burnt ... yet completely underdone? This was not my fault. I don't do this. Pinterest lied to me. The recipe was really vague too. "Put it in fairly deep dish bleh bleh bleh." Plus it's from a British person so the bake temp was in Celsius. But I definitely had it at the right temperature, so don't even think it was my fault. It wasn't my fault. Okay, I guess I had more than one thing.


The whole night was not completely ruined because I made chicken rolls and they were so delicious. Go me.

Also, I found this picture and so I will share it!

It's from Christmas day, so don't judge the slight messiness. Josh will be mad at me for posting a picture of him. And he's drinking a water bottle, so not incredibly exciting. But look! It's our Christmas tree! It's huge! It makes a mockery of our pitiful amount of lights/ornaments. But it's beautiful and we loved it and miss it very much. Our first married Christmas tree!