Things That Don't Work #5322

Say you have plain vanilla ice cream in your freezer, which you would love to eat and would eat plain if it came down to that, but you're hoping to be creative and jazz it up with whatever you have in your kitchen, which isn't much.  You pull out your trusty Betty Crocker cookbook and see if you have what you need to make hot fudge.  You don't, but you do have chocolate chips and that gets you thinking.  So you set up your makeshift double boiler and dump a good handful of the chocolate chips in and wait while they melt down to a nice glossy chocolately goodness, all the while dreaming of delicious gooey chocolate on your plain boring vanilla.  At last it is ready and you spoon the supposed goodness on to your ice cream with great anticipation.  You present your husband with your culinary genius at which his eyes light up in expectant wonder.  You dig in, but wait, this isn't right...  It's supposed to be warm and gooey and oh so good, but before you can even get one mouthful to your eager mouth what was once warm and gooey is quickly becoming hard (not in the Magic Shell way) and chewy and nearly unpalatable.  So in the end, all you eat is your boring old plain vanilla ice cream.