Not something I've ever made, but still.
I learned a very long time ago that cakes actually made from scratch, no mix involved, are vastly superior. During my marriage, I got to the point where I told my husband not to buy me a cake from a bakery for my birthday. They were never as good as the ones I could make, and I was not at all bothered by baking my own cake.
One year, when my son was in grade school, I'd signed up to bake treats for one of the holiday parties. Valentine's Day, I think. I was all set to bake something or another, when I got a note from the mom in charge of us volunteer bakers. I needed to bake cupcakes using a strawberry cake mix. At least I think it was strawberry. Whatever the flavor, it was not one in my repertoire of cakes/cupcakes I could bake from scratch. Sigh. I made what was expected, and never again signed up to bake for a class party.
Later, when my son was attending a much smaller secular independent school, I got into the habit of baking chocolate chip cookies at final exam time. During the final exams, there was a request for parents to send in treats for the kids to have between exams, and lots of parents were happy to help out. I was baking from scratch, and the cookies were still warm from the oven when I got them to school. I put them down on the table, students looked at me, at the cookies and said, "Are those POINDEXTER'S cookies??" and promptly scarfed all of them down. I barely got out of the way of the mayhem. Fortunately, I'd set aside a couple dozen for the teachers which I'd placed in the teachers lounge.
I sometimes joked that my son made it through high school thanks to my cookies.
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