Huckle Bakes a Cake
Huckle went over to his neighbor house. He was a grownup and his name was Sonny. Huckle like Sonny because he was always nice and he had many interesting thing in his house.
When he was there, Huckle said, "Tomorrow is my mom's birthday. I want to bake her a birthday cake."
"Fine," replied Sonny, "but I have to drive to the store now. We can make a cake a cake when I come home."
"May I stay here and wait until you get back?"
"Sure, but be good and don't make a mess."
"Okay."
After Sonny left, Huckle started to watch the television, but there was nothing on except boring soap operas."
"Hey, I know," thought Huckle. "I can start the cake. I bet I can figure out how to make one. I'll make sure I clean up after myself so I don't leave a mess."
Huckle went into Sonny's kitchen.
"Let me see. What ingredients go into a cake? I know. Every cake has to have flour."
Huckle looked all over Sonny's kitchen for flour. He could not read very well yet, but he knew what flour look like. He found a box of baking soda.
"This certainly looks like flour. It's white and powdery. I wonder how much I should use. I think we need a lot, so I will use the whole box."
Huckle poured the whole box into a bowl. Then he decided to look for some sugar. He looked all over Sonny's kitchen, but could not find sugar anywhere.
"How does Sonny make thing sweet? Now what do I do?"
Huckle did find some cookies in a cookie jar.
"Hey, I know. Cookies have lots of sugar in them. I will crumble them up into the bowl and that will make the cake sweet."
Next Huckle went to the refrigerator to get eggs.
"I wonder how many eggs I need. I guess a dozen should be the right amount."
So Huckle broke a dozen eggs into the bowl with the baking soda and crumbled up cookies. Some eggs shell fell into the batter too.
"Cake usually have oil in them. Now if I was stupid, I would think it is the same oil you put into a car. I am lucky that I am not stupid."
Huckle looked throughout the cupboards for oil. He found a bottle with Cod Liver Oil written on it.
"I cannot read all the words, but that one word looks like oil. It certainly looks like the right type of oil. I will pour a whole cup of it into the batter."
Huckle mixed all the ingredients together and put the batter into a cake pan.
"This smell funny. Well maybe cakes just smell that way before we cook them."
Huckle knew he wasn't allowed to run the oven when he was alone, so he put the pan into the oven and waited for Sonny to come home to turn it on. He cleaned up his mess so Sonny would not be mad.
When Sonny came home, he was surprised to find that Huckle had the cake ready to bake.
"What recipe did you follow?" asked Sonny.
"The one in my head."
"Ummm...are you sure it will turn out right."
"Sure."
Sonny turned on the oven, and they waited for the cake to bake. After some time, Sonny smelled something strange. He looked into the oven and saw a strange site and it sure did stink."
"Huckle!"
"What?"
"What did you put in this cake?"
Huckle showed Sonny the ingredients he used, and Sonny just shook his head. The cake smelled so bad that they took it out of the oven and buried it is Sonny's backyard.
After that, Huckle and Sonny made another cake by following a recipe form a cookbook and using the right ingredients. This cake turned out very well, and Huckle's mom was pleased.
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