The Baptist White Lie Cake

Have you 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 in Tuscaloosa , but forgot to do it until the last

minute.
She remembered it the morning of the bake sale and

afterrummaging through cabinets, found an angel food cake mix

&quickly made it while drying her hair, dressing, andhelping

her son pack up for Scout camp.
When she took the cake

from the oven, the center had droppedflat and the cake was horribly disfigured and she

exclaimed,"Oh dear, there is not time to bake another cake!"


This cakewas important to

Alice because she did so want to fit in at hernew church, and in her new community of

friends. So, beinginventive, she looked around the house for something to

buildup the center of the cake. She found it in the bathroom - a

rollof toilet paper. She plunked it in and then covered it with

icing.
Not only did the finished product look beautiful,

it looked perfect.
And, before she left the house to drop

the cake by the churchand head for work. Alice woke her daughter and gave her

somemoney and specific instructions to be at the bake sale the moment

itopened at 9:30 and to buy the cake and bring it home.
When the daughter arrived at the sale, she found the

attractive,perfect cake had already been sold. Amanda grabbed her

cellphone & called her mom.
Alice was horrified-she was beside herself! Everyone would

know!
What would they think? She would be ostracized,

talked about,ridiculed! All night, Alice lay awake in bed thinking about

peoplepointing fingers at her and talking about her behind her

back.
The next day, Alice promised herself she would try

not to thinkabout the cake and would attend the fancy luncheon/bridal

showerat the home of a fellow church member and try to have a good

time.
She did not really want to attend because the

hostess was a snobwho more than once had looked down her nose at the fact that

Alicewas a single parent and not from the founding families of Tuscaloosa

,but having already RSVP'd , she couldn't think of a believable

excuseto stay home.


The

meal was elegant, the company was definitely upper crust oldsouth and to Alice 's

horror, the cake in question was presented fordessert! 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 beforeshe could get to her feet, the

Mayor's wife said, "what a beautifulcake!"


Alice , still stunned, sat

back in her chair when she heard thehostess (who was a prominent church member)

say,


"Thank you, I baked it

myself.."
Alice smiled and thought to herself, "God is good"