Plz Help Me Find The Name Of This Cartoon Strip/Book?

I had a flashback of a comic strip or child's book I used to read about a little kid who used to get into mischief..I forgot the name of it..It's NOT Dennis the menace either..it's about a little kid with his/her hair in a ponytail that stuck straight up & messy..One particular part I remember is him/her trying to bake something in the oven for his mom as a surprise, he overdoes it & the food starts bubbling out of the oven, all over the floor, & he scoops it up and starts eating it...and it's sticky...i'm not sure if he has an imaginary friend or not, but there's always something or someone there with him in his/her mischiefs.....please help me remember and find the name of it...it might start with a "P"...i'm not sure...the era I read it was in the 80's.....so it might be a "70's -80's" strip/book....the book wasn't in a magazine style like Marvel either......THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HELPING!! :D :D :D