These cookies look harmless enough, but trust me -- they were as hard as rocks!

This was a new recipe I had tried, and I was congratulating myself on following the directions so accurately (the only thing I changed was adding whole wheat flour instead of white flour).

I should have gotten a clue when I tried forming the cookies into balls, and I had to press the "dough" (more like crumbles) together as hard as I could, or else it fell apart.

A little water or milk, perhaps? Well, leave it to me to actually follow directions even when red flags pop up -- but hand me a tried-and-true perfectly-good recipe and I'll find something to change!!

P.S. I guess I'm not the only one who has cooking disasters -- check out Bethany's awesome chocolate mud cake here! Hmn... tired mommy, trying to do five things at once? Sounds familiar! I'm blogging through my nap time yet again! ;)