Surprise Cakewalk

Some people wait for bailouts, while others prefer bake sales. A little over a week ago, Angela Logan decided the best way to try and save her home was to start baking. If she could sell 100 cakes in 10 days at $40 a pop, she just might be able to save her home. Ambitious? Yes, but not impossible. In fact, her plan is going so well that Angela is working overtime to fulfill the hundreds of orders coming in.

Logan's efforts have garnered national attention. Her Mortgage Apple Cakes have appeared everywhere from CNN to Fox. In fact, Fox News sent even sent a limo to Logan's Teaneck, N.J., home to bring her to their New York studio for the inside scoop of the winning confectioners' combo of apples, butter, cream cheese and cinnamon.

The mother of three is taking the whole experience in stride and with gratitude, telling NorthJersey.com, "It’s been like a dream. I am speechless. I won’t call it overwhelming, because when you get a blessing, you just don’t complain. I’ll take overwhelming over fear and anguish any day of the week.”

The now-famous creation is based on a modified version of a recipe from the late LaDonna Veverka-Schneider, a Kansas woman whom Logan met while filming a documentary on the black television pioneer Lorenzo Fuller. Veverka-Schneider's daughter says her mother would be thrilled.

Word of Logan's industrious plan has already crossed the globe. A U.S. soldier stationed in Iraq ordered two cakes and asked that they be delivered in his name to a homeless shelter. Talk about a win-win situation.

The odds of Logan making her $2,600 mortgage payment this month look good. Now she just needs to figure out what to do with her budding new career as a world-famous baker.