What a Cake

So I have three boys. Two of them like to cook. Cole and Ty love helping in the kitchen, and tonight Cole and I decided to make a cake. Now, prior to baking the boxed mix, I did look in the pantry to ensure that we had enough stuff to make frosting, because that, by far, is the best part of making a cake. I didn't have all the usual ingredients, so I went to the trusty Betty Crocker cookbook and found a recipe wherein I DID have all the ingredients. We bake. Cole melts and stirs and pours. He is happy, I am craving chocolate. The cake bakes, all is well. It comes out a little high on one side, but alas, I am a pro and when this happens you simply off-balance the top layer ... I have been baking cakes for quite some time now. The cake cools, we eat our fish sticks and coleslaw (Lou is working tonight .... no home cooked meals on those days!) The cake is cool, I make the chocolate-sour cream frosting ... but wait!! We have only 2 cups of powdered sugar, not the 2 1/2 the recipe calls for. Ok, this is not a bakery, surely this will work. Well .... this is what it came out like:

See the crevice down the middle? Unexpected, I assure you. The cake must have been a little too warm, the frosting a little too runny. The boys looked quizzical when I placed their pieces on the table, then dove right in. Grant said it tasted like warm fudge and that he loved it. Ty didn't say a word, he was too busy eating. And Cole told me he liked it so much that he wanted his next birthday cake to be just like this one!!! I love my kids!