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

Ingredients

• 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

Directions

1. 1

   Preheat Oven, Get out bowl, spoons and ingredients, and Grease and Flour Pan.

2. 2

   Remove 5 crayons, 2 toy cars and One stuffed Bear from kitchen table.

3. 3

   Measure 1 Cup Flour.

4. 4

   Remove childrens hands from flour, wash flour off children.

5. 5

   Measure one more cup flour to replace flour on floor and table.

6. 6

   Put flour, baking powder and salt in a sifter.

7. 7

   Get dust pan to sweep up pieces of broken bowl children have knocked onto the floor.

8. 8

   Get another bowl, answer phone, return to table.

9. 9

   Get greased pan and a new bowl, remove crayon from pan.

10. 10

    Go look for quiet children

11. 11

    Answer phone again.

12. 12

    Return to kitchen and take greased pan from child, who flees, knocking new bowl off of table -- again.

13. 13

    Wash floor, table, walls, dishes and children.

14. 14

    Call local bakery.

15. 15

    Go Lie down.