Easy Bake
December 30, 2009
Yesterday seemed like the perfect day to break out the Easy Bake oven. The little oven that let’s you cook a minature cake by the heat of a 40 watt lightbulb, yet affords you all of the mess of a real cake! What’s not to love about it?
My daughter got started on her own. Opened the little package and poured it into the tiny bowl. She added the water and stirred away. It didn’t look right. In fact I twittered: Easy bake oven cake mix looks frighteningly disgusting. Like curdled milk baby vomit. Just in case you wondered.
But I assumed that little lightbulb worked miracles or something.
It did not.
It was then I realized our Easy Bake oven mistakes. I had assumed my daughter could read the packages well enough to differentiate between cake mix and the frosting mix. She, on the other hand, was not even aware that she was supposed to read “all those letters.” So we had just baked miniature pan of frosting.
The second attempt went much, much better.
The little piece that is missing from the cake? That was the amount she was willing to share with her siblings.
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I can’t be alone in wanting to bake in fake tattoos and polished nails having read this.
December 30th, 2009 at 2:39 pmI don’t think I have ever replied before but I love your blog. As the mother of an only child…it lets me into a WHOLE NEW WORLD! I remember my easy bake oven…it didn’t look that snazzy! And she looks very proud of herself!
December 30th, 2009 at 2:45 pm“Back in the Day” when such ovens came with a real heat coil instead of a light bulb, you could bake a cake AND sustain 3rd degree burns on your hands at the same time. Good times!
December 30th, 2009 at 2:50 pmGoodness, her domestic prowess is only surpassed by her generosity to her siblings! hahahha
Somewhere, the inventor of the EasyBake oven is laughing hysterically at all us fools.
December 30th, 2009 at 2:52 pmHow fun! My inner 7-year old still wants one!
Where did you find that fab tshirt? My daughter needs one.
December 30th, 2009 at 2:58 pmI love your blog, but never commented until today. Your post reminded me of the time my baby sister, who will soon turn 50, baked a cake in her Easy Bake. She offered our older brother a piece and was heart-broken when he ate the whole thing!
Thanks for letting us share in your life! bb
December 30th, 2009 at 3:45 pmWe still don’t have an Easy Bake Oven. I’m not sure how we have avoided getting one with two girls but hey I AIN’T complainin’!
I love your daughter’s cool girly punk skull shirt!
December 30th, 2009 at 3:54 pmHow funny!!! I love your humor right down the the last picture. Your daughter looks so sweet!
December 30th, 2009 at 4:07 pmHahaha! Love it!
My mom REFUSED to buy us an Easy Bake oven. Instead she bought the little pans and mixes and then we baked them in the real oven. She reasoned that she was teaching us a life skill by teaching us to use the real oven, which is probably right, but it just wasn’t the same.
Sadly, it’s probably what I would do with my kids, too. Messed up? Who, me?
Christy
December 30th, 2009 at 4:22 pmYou inspired me last year to allow my in-laws to purchase the cupcake maker for my daughter this year. That is our big plan for tomorrow. To make all four cupcakes in, I am sure, at least as many hours! Love that she still has her Christmas Day tattoos, by the way!
December 30th, 2009 at 4:44 pmMy daughter got an Easy Bake oven for Christmas, as well. Thanks for the heads up … I’ll make sure we cook the cake and not the frosting when we break that bad boy open.
December 30th, 2009 at 5:17 pmYou’ve probably already head this, but you can mix up a third of a package of real cake mix and let the kids cook all afternoon. This also brings the cost down to nearly free!
December 30th, 2009 at 5:28 pmYum, baked frosting. Don’t know if you’ve seen this, but they are recipes for easy bake ovens. So you don’t go broke buying the mixes.
December 30th, 2009 at 5:41 pmhttp://www.recipezaar.com/recipes.php?q%5B%5D=easy+bake+oven&ls=re
Dude, when I was growing up, I so so SO SO wanted an Easy Bake oven. SO.
December 30th, 2009 at 6:02 pmGreat post, Chris. I remember my little girls doing the same kind of thing . . . now they are 45 and 40 and are both wonderful cooks! I guess they learned they had to read “all those letters!”
December 30th, 2009 at 6:17 pmThat looks like an Easy Bake microwave, compared to the Easy Bake Oven I had (circa 1964). It’s the same blue/green color, though!
December 30th, 2009 at 6:21 pmI’m still mad at my parents, I MEAN SANTA, for never buying me an Easy Bake oven.
December 30th, 2009 at 6:50 pmEasy Bake Ovens have come a long way! Too funny about the frosting!
December 30th, 2009 at 6:59 pmTHAT is what I got my 9 year old for Xmas. I’m so afraid.
December 30th, 2009 at 7:06 pmYou are bringing back memories of blistery burns! Our pre-1985 ? oven got stinkin’ hot!
December 30th, 2009 at 7:54 pmShe’s such a cutie!!! I’ll bring out my girls’ Easy Bake now. My youngest daughter rcvd a Candy Jewelry Maker. Myabe we should have a bake off
December 30th, 2009 at 8:03 pmHow cute is she? I think the new Easy Bake looks a lot cooler than we had growing up. Funny that she let 6 siblings eat a fork full:)
December 30th, 2009 at 10:56 pmWe’re on our 2nd Easy Bake Oven. First daughter didn’t care for it much, and last time we moved, since it had not been touched in three years, we chucked it. Daughter number two wanted one for Christmas this year, and got it along with the decorating pen. I fully plan on saving it for Daughter #3.
By the way, 40 Watt? Our’s said 100 Watt! WTH?
December 30th, 2009 at 11:05 pmHey its Miles face with longer hair!
Looks like your kids had a great Christmas!
Happy New Year and have a blessed 2010
December 31st, 2009 at 12:28 amAgain with the funny posts!!
December 31st, 2009 at 12:52 amMy daughter HAD to have one last year, so Grandma gifted her one at Christmas last year. She used it twice and decided that it wasn’t worth the effort for three bites of something. HAHAHAA!!! “Mom can we back a real cake?” I had the Holly Hobbie oven way back in the day… fun times.
December 31st, 2009 at 1:24 amAm I the only one that is bugged that it looks like a microwave these days?
I was lucky enough to have one when I was a kid (HUGE on our family’s budget) but my mom wouldn’t shell out money for more mixes so I baked some truly disgusting pasty mixes of flour and water and did a lot of experimenting. Then again, people think I’m a good baker now, maybe that experimenting was a good thing!
December 31st, 2009 at 8:48 amI’m impressed. I don’t think we have ever had a cake come out of the Easy Bake Oven looking so edible.
December 31st, 2009 at 8:50 amHAPPY NEW YEAR 2010
You are such a great sport. my mom (mother of 4 girls) never bought an easy bake and i myself never bought an easy bake for either of my girls. I am better now at letting 12yo daughter cook ( i don’t think i ever let 23yo daughter cook at such a young age).
Thanks for all the great posts and photo’s in 2009.
December 31st, 2009 at 9:35 amyou keep us smiling and crying and sane by showing us a glimpse of your family.
LOVED my easy bake oven when I was a kid. It was right up there with the Snoopy snow cone machine which we dragged out in the warmer months.
I must know - where did you get that adorable t-shirt with the pink skull & crossbones wearing a tiara? And do they come in my size?
December 31st, 2009 at 12:35 pmThat smile, that lovely skin, her fashion panache at the age of 6/7 … truly amazing - who cares if she can’t cook!!!!
Happy 2010!
December 31st, 2009 at 1:21 pmThat makes me want to pull out my new waffle cone maker that I got for Christmas!
January 1st, 2010 at 11:31 pmha ha ha - I am glad we are still working with Play-Doh cakes around here.
But it was a close call - the Easy Bake was on my 5-year-old’s list.
January 4th, 2010 at 2:43 pmOh man she’s the kind of cook I am.
January 5th, 2010 at 12:18 amlooks like the cake was a real treat!
January 13th, 2010 at 3:13 pm