How To Bake A Cake (with Small Children Around!)

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
• 2 large eggs, out of reach of children
• 1/3 cup sugar
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

Recipe

• 1 preheat oven, get out bowl, spoons and ingredients, and grease and flour pan.
• 2 remove 5 crayons, 2 toy cars and one stuffed bear from kitchen table.
• 3 measure 1 cup flour.
• 4 remove childrens hands from flour, wash flour off children.
• 5 measure one more cup flour to replace flour on floor and table.
• 6 put flour, baking powder and salt in a sifter.
• 7 get dust pan to sweep up pieces of broken bowl children have knocked onto the floor.
• 8 get another bowl, answer phone, return to table.
• 9 get greased pan and a new bowl, remove crayon from pan.
• 10 go look for quiet children
• 11 answer phone again.
• 12 return to kitchen and take greased pan from child, who flees, knocking new bowl off of table -- again.
• 13 wash floor, table, walls, dishes and children.
• 14 call local bakery.
• 15 go lie down.