The cake? Seems to have turned out.

I am off to purchase ice cream and assorted peripherals.

Then I make frosting. I'll let you know later how it all turns out.

And now I'd better go, since there's construction on the street next to the library here, some of the parking lot is closed, and predatory would-be patrons are prowling the parking lot, looking for somewhere to leave their cars while they rush inside to feed their library cravings.

Don't you love it when that happens?

(The prowling, I mean. And the popularity of the library. Not losing part of the lot. But it's temporary.)