Denise, how big are the cloves of garlic you're using. If you use the bought peeled garlic, I find they are usually small and mine ended up mushy so now I buy fresh garlic with the biggest cloves I can find. If you can only find smaller cloves then I'd suggest keeping an eye on them during the cooking process, they obviously don't need cooking as long. At the end of the day though it doesn't matter how they end up, garlic is delicious done this way. If giving as gifts though I can understand we would want them to look more presentable.
