First baking fail

Okay so it's not my very first food making fail (like that time my half my pecan pie spilled over before I was finished baking it) but one I'm real disappointed for rushing through.

It was SO simple, I just wanted to make a tasty dessert that I had years ago at a summer cook out: Eclair cake.  Made with instant pudding, whipped cream, gram crackers and topped with chocolate frosting and no baking required it was perfect for our evening of stormy weather.  First thing that went wrong was when I went out to get the ingredients for it I'd forgotten what size package of pudding mix to get...yep, I got one too small.  Luckily my friend had two small packs of cheesecake flavor instant pudding...not my favorite but it worked just fine. 

So it basically went like this:
Line the bottom of wide deep dish with gram crackers
Cover gram crackers with about half of the following mixture:

• 6oz instant pudding
• 3 cups milk
• 8oz whipped cream

Make another layer of gram crackers, then the other half of the cream mixture, then a final layer of gram crackers.

Now the next part of the chocolate sauce topping was simple enough according to the recipe I was following:

• 1 cup sugar
• 4 Tbsp cocoa powder
• 2 Tbsp milk
• 4 Tbsp butter
• 1 tsp vanilla extract 

Being the amateur I am in the kitchen (but I have such spirit!) I didn't have any assumptions about how it was suppose to come together...and there were no instructions on how to bring the sauce together.  It pretty much just said "Beat together".  Fortunately I was bright enough to assume my butter needed to be melted...but I did not know that all together it should be heated until the sugar dissolves.

That being said, I ended up with a delicious eclair cake...with a terribly sweet gritty chocolate frosting.

Live and learn....and then go get a hug =/

(Pic from about-recipes.com)