The story of a New Jersey woman who was able to save her home from foreclosure a few years back by selling apple cakes has been turned into a TV movie. And though it's no Mother, May I Sleep With Danger (what is?!) , the film's sweetness factor alone seems worth a bite.
Angela Logan, an actress and 60-year-old mother of three, almost lost her Teaneck home in 2009, when she was given only a few weeks to hand $2,559.54 over to her mortgage lender. Luckily, Logan stepped up to the task, baking 100 apple cakes in ten days and selling them at $40-a-pop to cover the costs. She saved her home and made some extra cash in the process, getting offered kitchen space at a local Hilton hotel and partnering with Internet bakery Bake Me A Wish to cough up hundreds of the confections, which Logan dubbed the Mortgage Apple Cake.
Now, Logan's personal drama is making it to the small screen—the UP netowrk (yes, this is a real television network for "uplifting" programming) is running a fictionalized 90-minute version of the success story, complete with a romantic interest, a troubled teen and, hopefully, some swelling orchestral music. Not that adding a dash of Hollywood to Logan's tale troubles her family: "Despite the creative embellishments, the movie stayed true to one thing: my mom’s inexhaustible drive,” her 20-year-old son Nick told NJ.com. “She’s never given up on anything, including all three of her boys."
The film, Apple Mortgage Cake, premieres on April 20th, so even if you don't care about Logan's story, it's not a bad day to watch a movie about dessert.
