No joke.
This right here is a bona fide homemade-from-scratch pound cake that sold at auction for more than three thousand dollars. My mom made a few of these for some fancy smancy swoiray over in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. I think it was to benefit the Childrens' Cancer Center at Baptist Hospital, where she serves as a volunteer.
Now here is the twist:
The guy who bought it immediately put it back on the auction block and this same cake sold again for another two thousand eight hundred dollars. So the total raised in donations from just this one cake she provided was a cool six thousand dollars. Needless to say, it made her day, for sure.
Gatlinburg
I'm bringing two of these scrumptious cakes to 
Images mine
Mommy mine
Cake to be shared
