White Lie Cake (AND new contest AND Jenny/Raisinets-you won the last one!)
Okay, (as my friend Gina always says) so here’s the thing…I subscribe to exactly 2 magazines. Yep…2 and only 2…Country Magazine and Reminisce Magazine. Of the two, I love Country for it’s AWESOME photos (especially in autumn and winter) and Reminisce for it’s nostalgic quality.
Well, as you’re sitting there wondering why on earth I’m going on about magazines I like…I have to tell you that sometimes they have just funny little things in them that brighten my day! And I came across one of these funny little things just yesterday, and decided to share it with you.
This little cutie thing, not only reminded me of my Mom’s famous “House” birthday cake, and a littl
e of the movie “The Help”…but just made me smile so sincerely that I thought it was worthy of going a little further than just my box of “Magazines I Don’t Really Want to Throw Away, But Don’t Know What Else to Do With.” You know what I mean?
And so, hoping you enjoy it as much as I did, here it is:
White Lie Cake
“Alice was to bake a cake for her ladies’ church group bake sale but forgot to do it until the last minute. Worse, whens he took her Angel Food Cake out of the oven, she found that the center had dropped flat.
With no time to bake another cake, Alice looked around the house for something to build up the center and found it: a roll of toilet paper! She plunked the roll in the center of the cake and covered it with icing. The finished product looked perfect.
Before dropping off the cake on her way to work, Alice woke her daughter, giving her money to go and buy the doctored cake as soon as the bake sale opened.
When the daughter arrived at the bake sale, she found that the cake had already been sold. Getting the bad news by phone, Alice was horrified. Everyone will know! I’ll be ridiculed! she thought. All night, Alice envisioned people pointing and talking behind her back.
The next day, Alice attended a fancy luncheon and bridal shower, even though the hostess was a snob who had looked down on her as a single parent from a working-class family, and other guests were definitely upper-crust. After serving an elegant meal, to Alice’s horror, the hostess presented her bake sale cake as dessert!
Before Alice could leave her seat to tell the hostess about it, the mayor’s wife said, “What a beautiful cake!”
Alice, still stunned, sat back as she heard the hostess say, “Thank you. I baked it myself.”
Smiling, Alice thought to herself, God is good.”
Seriously, do you LOVE that story?!?! It’s sooooooooooo something that would happen to me…well, except for the happy ending! Ha ha!
And so, hoping you enjoyed the little story I ripped from the pages of Reminisce (authored by Emily Caglione by-the-way), I’m going to hope you enjoy this blog’s contest, too!
First of all, though, I need to let Jenny (whose Paw Paw loved Raisinets) know that she won the Olive Garden gift card! Hey, Jenny! You won the Olive Garden gift card! E-mail your address to marcialmcclure@cs.com and I’ll get your gift card in the mail asap!
For this week’s contest, leave a comment here, on Facebook, or Goodreads (you know the drill) and I’ll pop your name in my hat for the chance to win a subscription to either Country Magazine or Reminisce Magazine! Each one is an every-other-month magazine, meaning you’ll get 6 issues a year! So the winner can just let me know which one she/he wants! Fun, huh?!?!
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This was a fun read. Loved the story. Thanks for the laugh I needed today.
That was great! Was not expecting that ending so it made me laugh. I can imagine when they cut into the cake. How funny!
Ha ha ha aha, that's hilarious! It had me "rolling" on the floor! I'm going to "wipe" away my tears. I'm sure Alice was so happy the hostess' true colors were "flushed" out. Thanks for sharing, I'll smile every time I see some toilet paper.
Very funny!!! I used to subscribe to Country Magazine many, many years ago. I loved it and the rich color and paper used for the pages of photos and recipes. Loved those recipes! Also, Marcia, I just finished "The Haunting of Autumn Lake" after reading "The Visions of Ransom Lake". They are two peas in a pod and you definitely did a great job winding the two stories together. I loved them both as well as the other books of yours I have read. I was especially tickled when I read the story about Ryan Clems in the back. I knew you had gone to Rick's but until I read "The Haunting of Autumn Lake", I hadn't realized we were there at the same time and I was probably dancing in the Manwaring Center while you sang with the band at those dances. Those were the best. And those were two of the best years of my life. It brought back fond memories. Thanks for that!
