The Cake Her Little Brother Ruined
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, September 01, 2009 12:00 PM
Poor Juliette.
Yesterday afternoon, she asked to bake a special cake and I said yes. When you are a 9-year-old baked goods enthusiast and your mother gives you free reign in the kitchen, it’s a special day indeed.
She baked a vanilla cake, let it cool (“Can I frost it yet? Isn’t it cool enough now? Can you check it one more time? Is it ready to frost yet?”), and then made the frosting.
She had an audience. As she was beating the frosting in the mixer, little brother Daniel pushed a chair to the counter and climbed to watch.
Then, while his big sister was focused on the frosting, he saw an opportunity ... and seized it. Literally. He swiped a handful of one of the cake layers and hid under the table to devour his ill-gotten goods.
“My cake!” Juliette gasped.
Family members gathered to survey the damage and then all eyes turned to the culprit crouched beneath the table.
There was some scolding. There was some crying. There was a banishment of sorts. Then there was some 3-year-old weeping and wailing from his bedroom: “I can’t even try the cake!” he moaned. Seriously.
In the end, we dried our eyes, apologies were made, and forgiveness was granted. Then, victims of a violent crime though we were, we rose above our circumstances and set about salvaging the cake.
We sliced the gutted layer into pieces to decorate the intact layer. We colored the frosting and ... voila! ... we had a pretty cake. Maybe even prettier than it would have turned out otherwise, according to the 9-year-old baker.
So the moral of the story, if you are a 3-year-old forgiven vandal who got a large piece of cake after his dinner last night, is that you can so have your cake and eat it too. And it tastes like forgiveness too.
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