Easy-Bake Oven Lovin'
A few Christmases ago, my daughter received an Easy Bake oven from my parents. I swear that when she pulled the wrapping paper off of the box, I heard angels sing and a holy light illuminated the scene.
Along with the Barbie Styling Head and every Breyer model horse ever made, the Easy Bake oven was an object of unrequited lust. I always wanted one. I never got one.
My mom, too, had always coveted the Easy Bake. She gave it to my daughter, thinking that I wouldn't want to mess and hassle at my house, and would gladly leave it at her house. WRONG.
We did this whole passive-aggressive tussle right there in the middle of the gift exchange.
"No, no. I just know you'll never have time for her to use it, and the parts will get lost..."
"No, no, if it stays at your house, she'll never have the chance to use it..."
"No, no, it could be dangerous with the little kids..."
"No, no, I'll help her with it..."
I won. Neener neener. The oven came home with us.
We quickly exhausted all the dog-crap filled kits, and moved on to making our own recipes, using the Easy Bake cookbook I'd purchased from Amazon. They were still a little on the dog-crap side of things, using instant cocoa mix and other things, but they tasted better than the mixes.
After a few months of crazy baking, we sort of burned out on the whole thing, and the oven got put away. Until this last month, that is. My mom casually mentioned that she wouldn't mind having it over at her house, since we aren't using it.
What? What? Uh, no way, Grandma. The Oven is coming out of retirement for another round of mini-pan action.
Taking a look at those little pans, it dawned on me that they are the perfect size for a entree. I'm going to do an Easy Bake dinner and post the results.
Tell me - do you have a Easy Bake Oven at home? Do you love it more than your kid does?
Comments
Oh, we have one from about 5 years ago. I'd love to have some GOOD recipes to try in it.
Posted by: Tammy | September 7, 2006 3:30 PM
No, but I always wanted one (never gotone) . . . but now I have a 4-year old daughter, so I bet all my dreams will come true! ;)
Posted by: Shrinkingmom | September 7, 2006 10:09 PM
I always wanted an Easy Bake Oven as a kid. I never got one. I complained about the fact that I never got one for 31 years, until my Mom bought me one for Christmas last year. I actually teared up when I opened it. I thought it was the sweetest thing that she finally got me one!
I of course took it home and immediately baked up some of the mixes; then it languished in storage because I realized how disgusting the food turned out. Then I donated it to Goodwill. But I still appreciate the fact that my mom finally bought me one!
Posted by: coraspartan | September 8, 2006 6:34 AM
I always wanted one as a kid. We don't have one yet because theya re pink and none of my sons wants a pink oven! Why don't they make boy ones??
We do have a creepy crawler oven thing and a shrinky dink maker, lets you think these children are completely deprived ;-)
Posted by: chris | September 8, 2006 6:56 AM
Growing up we would always use regular recipies in it. When my mom was making a cake, she would give us enough batter to fill our pans and they turned out delicious. I don't know how the new ones are, we just bought one for my daughter so I suppose I will be back in a couple of days to say whether or not they actually work that way still.
Posted by: sara | December 27, 2006 11:41 AM