Gummy Worms (Failure)

The gummy worms turned out to be rubber worms. My mom and I are about ready to strangle Anita Chu. It is such a waste of ingredients when we use the exact amount and method she wrote in her cookbook and it starts out as a big glob. The recipe calls for "refrigerate until firm", well it never even needed to go in the fridge. I couldn't even cut through it with the pizza cutter! We had to drown our sorrows in peanut butter balls, which actually turned out. Does anyone need a new mouse pad? Because our sheet of "rubber worms" would work perfectly.