Sunday, February 8, 2009

White Lie Cake

Have you ever told a white lie?

You are going to love this, especially all of those who bake for church events.Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church Ladies' Group in Tuscaloosa , but forgot to do it until the last minute.

She remembered the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix & quickly made it while drying her hair, dressing, & helping her son pack for Scout camp.

When Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat and the cake was horribly disfigured. She thought, 'Oh dear, there is not time to bake another cake.

'This cake was important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at her new church and in her new community of friends. So, being inventive, she looked around the house for something to build up the center of the cake.Alice found it in the bathroom - a roll of toilet paper.

She plunked it in and covered it with icing. Not only did the finished product look beautiful, it looked perfect.Before she left the house to drop the cake by the church and head for work, Alice woke her daughter Amanda and gave her some money and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the moment it opened at 9:30 and to buy the cake and bring it home.

When Amanda arrived at the sale, she found the attractive, perfect cake had already been sold. She grabbed her cell phone and called her mom.Alice was horrified - she was beside herself.

Everyone would know! What would they think? She would be ostracized, talked about, and ridiculed! All night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing fingers at her and talking about her behind her back.

The next day, Alice promised herself she would try not to think about the cake and would attend the fancy luncheon/bridal shower at the home of a fellow church member and try to have a good time.

Alice did not want to attend because the hostess was a snob who more than once had looked down her nose at Alice because she was a single parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa but, having already RSVP'd, she couldn't think of a believable excuse to stay home.

The meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust old South and, to Alice's horror, the cake in question was presented for dessert! Alice felt the blood drain from her body when she saw the cake!
She started out of her chair to tell the hostess all about it, but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor's wife said, 'What a beautiful cake!'

Alice still stunned, sat back in her chair when she heard the hostess (who was a prominent church member) say, 'Thank you, I baked it myself.'

Alice smiled and thought to herself, 'God is good.'

8 comments:

Kelly said...

OHHHH that was GOOOOOD! ;)

garnett109 said...

And the moral of the story is.....?

Barb said...

That is SO funny. I remember making and anniversary cake that had fallen in the center of the bottom layer. It wasn't that big in diameter but kind of deep. It was just for a family event but I should have started sooner so I could allow for mistakes like this. I didn't So I filled the indentation with icing. The cake looked beautiful but when you got to the center there were some pieces of cake with quite a bit of icing. Luckily everyone laughed with me and liked the icing....so that helped. Next time...I allowed time for rebaking. :)
Have a good week.
Barb *queenb

Ken Riches said...

Karma Baby :o)

Estela said...

HAHA, "FINALLY" a joke on the internet I had "NEVER" seen!!!!

Estela in South TX

Joann said...

That was GREAT, I've never heard this one either.... I loved it!!

Jan said...

Great! justice indeed lol ..love Jan xx

nancy said...

That is tooooooooo funny. next time I make cake I'm gonna laugh so hard 'til my belly ache. Take care. Nancy