Not too bad, considering it was a last-minute "emergency" cake:



I frosted it today when I ran home at lunchtime. And I'm happy to report that the mint frosting is one of the better frostings I've made. I usually don't use a recipe; I do it how my mom taught me - you soften up a few tablespoons of butter (you can add cream cheese if you like; I didn't have any on hand). Then you slowly add powdered sugar, beating as you go, and thin it down with milk as needed. Somewhere midway you add the flavoring and the color if you're using it.

For once, the frosting didn't come out sicky-sweet. I think that's because I was more generous with the butter - usually if you use more milk, you have to put in SO much powdered sugar that it becomes kind of unappealingly sweet. And the mint helps cut the sweetness. (I was very careful not to put much in; I've had mint frostings that had so much extract in them they tasted like mouthwash).

The decoration is just chocolate chips melted with a little more butter. At first I tried squeezing out "squiggles" from a baggie with a corner cut off, but that looked ugly, so I dragged fork tines through it to spread it out more.

I'm just glad this is DONE. I've never had more trouble, I think, with baking.