A recipe for Brownies from an 8 and 12 year old
The Ingredients are:
Betty Crocker brownie mix
1 Egg
¼ Cup of water
¼ Cup of Vegetable oil
Anything else in the kitchen that an 8 and 12 year old would think make the brownies taste better
The equipment an 8 and 12 year old will use to make brownies:
A mixing bowl
A measuring cup
A pan
A wooden spatula
It's Saturday afternoon and 8 year old little you is craving something sweet and so is your 12 year old older sister. You look in the cabinet and find brownie mix and realize you have all the ingredients you need, so what else are you supposed to do except make brownies. It's not like mom would be mad as long as you clean up your mess and brownies are mom's favorite so she may be happy instead.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Crack the egg into the bowl, but have your sister do it because if you crack it then you might make a mess, just like how you made a mess the first time you painted your nails, there is still nail polish stains on the table from that accident, or accidently drop a piece of shell in the bowl, no need to make mistakes now, you have your teenage years to do that.
Add the other ingredients into the bowl. This is something even an 8 year old little you can do. You add them in by first measuring the water and oil then dumping them in the bowl, but don't worry it's not trash because not everything that's dumped is. Add in the brownie mix
Now stir and stir until your little arms are tired. When their tired just switch with your sister but you don't want to stop because you don't want to seem weak so you stir as hard as possible, tiring yourself out more. Don't worry though, mom will be more tired than me after coming home from work.
Now let's make it fun. Add anything you want. Your 8, no need to stick to your recipe. You want to add Nesquik chocolate powder and you sister wants to add chocolate chips. Don't forget milk though because brownies should be milky.
Side note: you are not supposed to do this but who cares, you are still a kid. People are less judgmental now.
Now mix again because you don't want to be powdery or lumpy, that's no good. The lump that will grow on your dad's head in the future was skin cancer and that's also not good but you couldn't just mix it like this to make it go away.
Pour the mix into the pan. Let your sister do it your still not trusted because you are still just a kid.
Put it in the oven and wait, wait like how you need to wait to be older to be trusted.
Take it out and enjoy just like life because neither will last forever.