A Wonderful New Recipe

Soda Cakes

You'll need:
A sweet seven year old little girl (almost eight!)
Your favorite pancake recipe
Instead of using 6 teaspoons of baking powder...
Substitute 6 TABLESPOONS of baking SODA

That is the secret ingredient right there. You will have more bubbling fun that your family can handle for one night. Serious bubbling. Because, you know, that's what baking soda does, especially 6 TABLESPOONS of it! The really fun part is that no one will even notice anything is different , not the person cooking the pancakes or anyone eating them, until Mother takes a bite and starts gagging. Not in a "I'm pregnant" kind of way but more like a "My daughter is trying to poison me" kind of way. Everyone else will just snarf them down as usual.

Try them tonight and see if they become a new family tradition. Then we can start calling you Soda Cakes. Hey, it's better than being called Salt Balls like someone else I know. (Hopefully Daddy's Birthday Chocolate Chip-less Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Balls turn out better this year than they did last year. A little less salt will help.) We might not be a family of gourmet chefs but we sure try hard.

I seriously don't know what happened tonight. Persistence has been making pancakes for two years now without any problems. Maybe she was busy dreaming she was the star of a new cooking show called Gallagher Girl Gourmet but I think Cooking with Soda Cakes sounds even better. Now if we could just get her to come out of hiding from embarrassment. Maybe it would help if we stopped calling, "Here Soda Cakes! Where are you soda Cakes? We love you Soda Cakes! Come out, come out where ever you are Soda Cakes!"