Have your cake and laugh at it, too. Jen Yates' book, Cake Wrecks: When Professional Cakes Go Hilariously Wrong, made it to the New York Times most popular emailed list this week. Yates' book is flying off the shelves at bookstores and online booksellers, and the reason IS hilarious.

One would never think there may be a link between paying a mortgage and baking an apple cake, but if you name your dessert as mortgage apple cake, to pay off your house loan and prevent foreclosure there will be one. This is what one mother did and touched the hearts of national and international media.