Why You Should Follow the Recipe

I had some lemon curd (basically lemon jelly) that I needed to use so I decided to make this wonderful butter cake with a lemon filling between the four layers. I didn't have the two, 2" deep cake pans the recipe called for so I thought I would be really smart and just divide the batter between 3 less deep cake pans and make three layers instead of four. I won't go into detail about why it didn't work and bore you...I'll just show the results....

Hey even Julia Child had straight to the trash bin creations! So Aubrey called and I was telling her about my "crater" cake. By this time I was making /cooking the seven minute frosting. With her experience and wisdom as a baker she said , "If there's a problem just fill it in with frosting.

So I cooked and whipped my frosting into firm peaks...apparently not firm enough. And there was not enough frosting to "fill in" the problems as you can see.
Now for the moment of ...I don't know what, Aaron cut into the cake and the frosting flowed like lava. So this is why you follow the recipe. I have dubbed my creation Mount St. Helens. Because it looks just like the side of the volcanoe/mountain where the top blew off and there's a sideways crater. The flowing white lava was my special touch.
It tasted pretty good actually--it all got eaten. And it was a good laugh!!