How to Bake a Cake (With Small Children Around!)

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Ready In:
1hr
Ingredients:
5
Serves:
3

ingredients

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directions

  • Preheat Oven, Get out bowl, spoons and ingredients, and Grease and Flour Pan.
  • Remove 5 crayons, 2 toy cars and One stuffed Bear from kitchen table.
  • Measure 1 Cup Flour.
  • Remove childrens hands from flour, wash flour off children.
  • Measure one more cup flour to replace flour on floor and table.
  • Put flour, baking powder and salt in a sifter.
  • Get dust pan to sweep up pieces of broken bowl children have knocked onto the floor.
  • Get another bowl, answer phone, return to table.
  • Get greased pan and a new bowl, remove crayon from pan.
  • Go look for quiet children
  • Answer phone again.
  • Return to kitchen and take greased pan from child, who flees, knocking new bowl off of table -- again.
  • Wash floor, table, walls, dishes and children.
  • Call local bakery.
  • Go Lie down.

Questions & Replies

  1. This is a knock off of a recipe called Johnny Cake that was in a church produced cookbook from back in the 1950's. I think I still have the cookbook from my Grandmother's church. It was cute then and still is.
     
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Reviews

  1. FYI - in case anyone was wondering the source of this "recipe" it comes from the "Feed Me I"m Yours" cookbook.
     
  2. hahahahahaha!
     
  3. I made this tonight, but it turned into pizza crust dough. Might I suggest duct taping the children to the wall? Hee hee!!!!!!!!!!!
     
  4. Not kidding you - I'm crying of laughter right now - Started reading this thinking it's serious), and then, well, I realized HOW serious this really is! Thank you so much, especially for the last step where you acknowledge that it is OK to do.
     
  5. OMG! This is hysterical! Oh sooooo very very true. My little one is just getting to this point. Can't wait for several more years of it. LOL!
     
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