How to Make A Store Bought Home Made Cake

This post is in response to one of my beloved bloggers who recently had one of the "muffies" showcase a home-made and quite FANCY cake. Our WT gal wanted to resort to violence after being the subjected to the muffy mother bragging about the home baked cake for some kid event. I was glad to know that our WT sister did NOT resort to violence regarding the "treat" issue but wanted to let her know the BEST way to really drive the perfect mothers CRAZY is to have EQUALLY as HOME MADE good treats for the school events! HOWEVER, being a WT MOM, you do NOT bake the cake...you buy it at the store and then decorate it, put it on a platter. See directions below for the WT MOM's method of baking a cake for the school/kid function. Remember, to the muffy girls of the world, fancy home-baked treats are just another contest and a way to show superior skills. Step One: Of course, you forgot that you were supposed to bring a treat/a birthday cake to your child's class or activity. You remember at the last minute OR one of your WT Mom friends calls to remind you. You RACE to the store at the last minute. Step Two: You buy a PLAIN white store bought cake. You can usually buy them right outta the baked goods area or if beg the people behind the counter to give you one. I have found that crying is often helpful. Step Three: You then go to whatever aisle the cake decorating stuff is in. You purchase the coolest stuff you can find for the top of the cake AND you get that frosting in a can that you can decorate with. Or, you can get fruit, candy or some other kind of topping to put on the cake. Step Four: Go home and dump cake out of the store pan. Put cake on the $9.99 cake serving dish, like the one that I have linked to above at target.com. If you are not a veteran of the "muffy wars" and you do not have your own personal cake serving dish----go buy BEFORE you need one. Trust me, it will come back to you ten-fold. Anyway----put the cake on the cake serving dish and decorate it with items you purchased at the store. Step Five: Take cake to school and swear that it is a home-made little recipe that you got from great auntie. NEVER admit that the cake is store bought. No matter how much pressure the muffies apply, do not crack. FYI-If you have loaned out the cake serving dish to another WTMom, follow step 4 but replace the cake serving dish with a disposable type of serving dish, purchased at the store along with other "ingredients". Tell the MUFFS that you brought a disposable dish because it's "less trouble for everybody". Like you are doing someone a favor. BUT BE WARNED----under NO CIRCUMSTANCES do you use the store bought container. The above cake recipe works. I have done it zillions of times over my mom career. Next recipe session will deal with how to make store purchased brownies look and taste like home-made. ONE MORE THING: Big disclaimer on one point. I do have friends that are NOT muffys and are excellent cooks. They love to bake and are damn good at it. I just wanted to make sure that all those baking moms out there don't think I am bagging on them. I only bag on the evil muffy moms. It is my purpose in life.