You ain't got no alibi

Last weekend we celebrated our church turning four. After church services we went out to the park/lake for a picnic. The weather was absolutely perfect, btw. Of course, we had potluck style so everyone brought food. I made a cake on Saturday night and even had some confetti icing on hand so it could be festive.

Instead I ended up with this ...
U-G-L-Y

You would think it's hard to screw up a cake mix and can of icing. But I made it look easy and I'm going to share my plan with you so you too can make an ugly cake.

Step 1: Remember, you will be traveling with this cake, so you need to easily transport it. After considering the size and shape of your cake-taker bake a round cake.

Step 2: Go to get cake-taker (while cake is cooling) and remember that you don't have a round one after all. It is a rectangle.

Step 3: Put icing on first round. Set second round on top of first and realize that it is upside down leaving the two highest points of the cake touching and resulting in a large gap all the way around.

Step 4: Try to fill the gap with icing and realize that you are running out of icing.

Step 5: Also now see that gravity is taking hold of your cake and the top round is breaking into large chunks.

Step 6: Figure at this point it can't get much worse, so go ahead and force the lid on even though the cake is too tall.

Step 7: Go to Kroger and buy a pre-made cake.