One goopy mess

Each year for Scott's birthday, I make some sort of special dessert, whether it's peanut butter cake with chocolate icing or a blueberry pie (two of his favorites). Since there are so many good looking desserts out there, I try to avoid making the same one each year. I'm thinking that was a bad idea this year.

When choosing recipes, I consider not only the overall final product/ taste, but also the ease in making it. (Thus I don't think I'd ever try making Baked Alaska.) Well apparently I somehow managed to mess up a rather easy recipe.

This is what the dessert is supposed to look like:
Mmmm, striped layers of peanutty perfection. How hard could that be?

This is how the dessert turned out:

I know it's hard to tell since one is a slice and the other is the entire dessert, but if you could shake the monitor you could see the dessert slosh about in the pan. (You might need to wipe off the computer now.) I have no clue what happened. The top layer is vanilla pudding mixed with peanut butter, but the pudding never actually set. Instead, it's more like peanut butter-vanilla milk. I followed the directions, so what happened? Oh, and I should mention that Scott and I did sample that dessert last night. Can't tell, huh? Again, that's due to the slosh factor; the liquid layer simply filled in the portion we scooped out.

Needless to say, I don't know if I'll try this one again. And I certainly won't be keeping the dessert in the fridge. Unless anyone wants to stop by for a bite...