Your dessert doesn’t turn out.
Dessert can be one of the trickier courses, since it’s usually supposed to look pretty. If your soufflé falls, or your plum cobbler browns too much, or your cake breaks into pieces when it comes out of the pan, find the silver lining! Trifle it. Very few desserts can’t be turned into a trifle. As long as it still tastes good, just take that “ruined” dessert and crumble it up in a large bowl with layers of whipped cream. In my experience, layers of whipped cream generally make everything taste good. For absolute disasters that can’t be trifled with (see what I did there?), dig out that gallon of vanilla ice cream you've been hiding in the freezer, melt a few chocolate bars, and nobody will be the wiser.