The Cake

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out!

This past week was Kiana's Birthday.  It has been a fun filled week!  It all started last Sunday when we celebrated Kiana's Birthday with my family.  Kiana told me she wanted a rainbow cake.  So I went online and found this AMAZING rainbow cake.  It looked simple enough but, as I started reading the directions the recipe called for a lot of things I did not have.  I figured I could finagle my way around things.

So my cake making adventure began.  I decided a four layer cake would be perfect.  Kiana helped me pick the colors she liked the most.  As we started I felt confident I knew I could pull this cake off without a hitch (at least I thought)  So I put the first two layers in the oven and started making the 3rd and 4th layers.  Then the Home Teachers came over.  Great Lesson but, during their time here my first two layers finished baking. a I didn't want to seem rude, so I quickly grabbed the cake from out of the oven and set them on top of the stove.  Knowing in my gut if I didn't flip them out now they were going to stick and then I would have a real problem.

But, I went back and finished the lesson with the Home Teachers.  If you can really call it a lesson when Desmond is running around like a crazy person and the other kids are acting really weird.  To put it in plain terms I was fully embarrassed by the time the Home Teachers left and wanted to send all four of my children home with the Home Teachers (but, with the way the kids were acting I know they wouldn't have taken them)  

So now being a bit frazzled I went back into the kitchen and attempted to release the cake from the pans.  Right when I flipped the first cake I felt it, it had totally stuck.  I wanted to cry because I had to be at my parents house in less them 45 minutes.  I took a deep breath and flipped out the other cake.  Again it stuck!!! Another deep breath and maybe some not so good thoughts about the cake. Okay I thought to myself  I still have 2 other layers.  If worst comes to worse I will just do 2 layers.

The next two layers came out perfect!!! I started to assemble the cake.  The cake was still hot so I knew the icing was going to melt.  But, I had no choice!  I wanted to cry the whole time I was putting the cake together.  It looked so horrible!!!!  The icing was dripping off the cake.  The layers looked uneven.  I seriously  contemplated throwing the whole cake away.   The cake looked horrific!!!

So my Grandpa came to my house to pick the kids and I up to go to my parents home.  My Grandpa is so sweet and looked at my cake and said "Karli Sue, the cake looks wonderful"  I said "Grandpa I know the cake looks scary"  he chuckled and said something about how it all goes in and out the same way.  Well, I was still mortified by my cake fiasco.  We get to my parents and I bring the cake right upstairs.  I asked my if she had any whipping cream.  She said she did and we would fix the cake after dinner.

So after dinner we brought up the problem cake.  My mom made some whipping cream and covered the cake.  It looked perfect!  

After singing Happy Birthday we cut into the cake and I was so pleased!  It looked AWESOME and Kiana loved it!  It was funny all the things that I thought were going to ruin the cake actually made it better.  The icing that I had put on the cake melted into the cake making it insanely moist and gave it a really rich flavor. The whipping cream gave the cake a light feeling not weighted down by to much frosting.  No one said anything about the layers being uneven.  The cake that I was about to throw in the garbage ended up being Kiana's favorite part of the day!!

I learned a valuable lesson on patience, not giving up, and humility.  Its okay if things don't turn out perfect or the way we envision it!  Because in the end its what we make of it!  I could turn this into a big analogy how what is on the outside doesn't matter.  What counts is what is on the inside.  But, I'm not going to today because today the lesson I needed was to make the best out of what you got and on Sunday I did that with Kiana's Birthday cake.  Tomorrow I'm going to see if I can do it with my life!