Pinterest is mostly a happy place

I have fallen in love w/ Pinterest like the majority of my friends and internet friends.  I'm getting great ideas for crafts, updating the house, recipes and more.  For Christmas I made several projects that I had found and they turned out great! Tonight I made this stew.  It was AMAZING! I changed it up a little bit and Linds-ified it.  The Hubs loved it and I highly recommend it.

But, as can be expected from time to time, a recipe let me down. Wanh Wanh!  Do you remember Little Debbie Cakes? I loved these as a child, especially the oatmeal creme pies.

Well, I found a recipe for them on Pinterest and decided to make them.  I was very disappointed in the outcome.  They tasted fine...ok, they tasted good...but they weren't like the original creme pies.  My husband thought they were good and of course he ate them.  They were mostly like an oatmeal cookie doozie.  Like the cookie company used to make w/ 2 chocolate chip cookies and icing.  The cookie was hard, not soft like the LD cake, and I didn't even bake them as long as the recipe said.  Again, they tasted fine but they weren't the memory and experience I was hoping for. 

I just looked on google and found these recipes here: recipe 1, recipe 2, and recipe 3 (there were a ton of recipes to choose from).  They are all a little different from each other. Should I try again?Hmmmm.... I just don't know.  How have your Pinterest experiences been?