Peanut Butter Cookies Plus 2-Year Old

• 1/2 c. soft margarine
• 1/2 c. granulated sugar
• 1/2 c. brown sugar, packed
• 1 egg
• 1/2 c. flour
• 1/2 tsp. baking powder
• 3/4 tsp. baking soda
• 1/4 tsp. salt
• 1 (2-year old) child

1. Mix shortening, peanut butter, sugar and egg thoroughly.
2. Get 2-year old out of bathroom where she is wading in toilet in $40.00 orthopedic shoes.
3. Measure flour.
4. Unwind 2-year old from around right leg.
5. If unsuccessful, drag her across floor to answer phone. Wash flour off child, phone cord and right leg.
6. Mix the rest of ingredients and stir in.
7. Before putting dough in refrigerator to chill, clean up floor where dogs food was spilled, wash dog food out of child's teeth.
8. Turn on Gerbert video and tell child to watch for Daddy.
9. Turn oven to 375u0b0.
10. Take coloring books and melted crayon out of oven.
11. Begin search for broiler pan.
12. Do not disturb turtles living in it.
13. Accept offer of 2-year old to use cake pan from Dolly-Time bake set, which bakes one cookie at a time the size of a tooth filling.
14. Wash 2-year olds hands and prepare to roll dough into balls the size of large walnuts.
15. Take 2-year old to bathroom to wash her hands again before placing the cookie on the pan.
16. Get dog off 2-year olds lap and wash her hands again. Flatten cookie with fork dipped in flour before putting in oven. Mop floor.
17. Hose down refrigerator, cabinets and stove.
18. Get flour off living room sofa.
19. Catch 2-year old who is chasing dog with portable mixer and contain her in bathtub.
20. Yield:
21. one cookie.

margarine, sugar, brown sugar, egg, flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, child

Taken from www.cookbooks.com/Recipe-Details.aspx?id=400536 (may not work)