* Forwarded (from: COOKING) by Steve Asher using timEd/2 1.10.y2k+.
* Originally from Allen Prunty (1:2320/100) to All.
* Original dated: Thu Dec 25, 22:47

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. S he
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. S 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 so good!'

 

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