Infallible Cake

Mom baked a chocolate sheet cake for the Pate Rehab Dessert Contest. The cake only rose to about 2/3 proper height during baking. Mom said, "This is a cake failure. This happens sometimes. I guess I'll go ahead and put the icing on anyway." Her cake failure still earned her the contest's second place ribbon, out of about 25 entrants. Her entire cake failure was devoured during the contest party, with none left over for me. :(