White Lie Cake

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>OK you Guys, the seriousness is over I think it is time for a little good
> clean fun!!!! If you have ever had much dealing with the church ladies then read
> and enjoy White Lie Cake.
>
> If you have ever told a white lie, you are going to love this....
> ....especially all of the ladies who bake for church events.
>
> Alice Grayson was to bake a cake for the Baptist Church ladies' group bake
> sale in Tuscaloosa, but she forgot to do it until the last minute.
> She remembered it the morning of the bake sale and after rummaging thru
> cabinets she found an angel food cake mix and quickly made it while
> drying her hair, dressing and helping her son, Bryan, pack up for Scout
> camp.
>
> But when Alice took the cake from the oven, the center had dropped flat
> and the cake was horribly disfigured. She said, "Oh dear, there's no
> time to bake another cake.

> This cake was so important to Alice because she did so want to fit in at
> her new church, and in her new community of new 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 then 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 minute it opened at 9:30, and to buy that cake and bring it home.
>
> When the daughter arrived at the sale, she found that the attractive perfect
> cake had already been sold. Amanda grabbed her cell phone and called
> her Mom. Alice was horrified. She was beside herself. Everyone would
> know, what would they think?

> Oh my, she wailed! She would be ostracized, talked about, ridiculed.
>
> All night Alice lay awake in bed thinking about people pointing their
> fingers at her and talking about her behind her back.
>
> The next day, Alice promised herself that she would try not to think about
> the cake and she would attend the fancy luncheon/bridal shower at the
> home of a friend of a friend and try to have a good time.
>
> Alice did not really want to attend because the hostess was a snob who
> than once had looked down her nose at the fact that Alice was a single
> parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa, but having
> already committed she could not 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 to get out of her chair to rush and tell her hostess all about it,
> but before she could get to her feet, the Mayor's wife said, "What a beautiful
> cake!"
>
> Alice, who was 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."