dinapug310

Hi all!

My daughter is 4 and she just requested her own oven so that she could bake herself. I immediately thought of an Easy Bake Oven, but I read a lot of reviews and had the idea to maybe get her a Hello Kitty toaster oven, a real kitchen appliance. I never had an Easy Bake and think I only ever came into contact with one once as a kid, but the tiny results sounded like they might be less than what she's hoping for. Whereby the toaster oven, may seem a bit more "real" and produce regular sized cupcakes, if only 4 or so at a time, if I get some individual silicon shapes or 2 small round pans, 1 rectangle, etc. And I can prepackage cake mix for her in pretty packaging for what she wants to make.

I'm curious what kind of ideas and experiences others have had in trying to help making the desire "to have a real oven" at this age a reality. And what Easy Bake Oven experiences you've had.

Thanks,
Dina

Dianne

My nephew had an Easy Bake oven and he loved it. He was older than four and
could make the (homemade) mixes himself and get a snack size treat. The
small size of the baked stuff is cute and I think kids like it but ask your
daughter if she realizes how small her cakes and cookies will be. If you do
get her an Easy Bake there are a lot of recipes online that are much
cheaper and don't have a bunch of chemicals in them.

--
Dianne
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Joyce Fetteroll

You can get the mixes and make them in a regular oven so she can see
how big they are.

(You can also make your own mixes. Just Google "easy bake oven recipes".

The Hello Kitty toaster oven sounds cute. And is practical since you'd
be able to use it if she decided she'd rather have the oven.

Not only can you make the mixes, you can make the oven. It's basically
just a 100 watt bulb in a box:

Get a cardboard box. Duct tape in a wire rack for the trays to rest
on. (Position it a few inches above the top of the lightbulb.) Line
the inside of the box with foil (to reflect heat.)

You can buy a stand-alone light socket (get one with a flat bottomed
ceramic base) at the hardware store. You can attach an electrical cord
and plug to plug it into the wall. (There are two screws on the base
of the socket and you just wrap the ends of the wires around them. You
can ask someone at the store or Google directions. It's very easy. And
there are clip-on plugs that just clamp onto the end of the wire so
you don't need to fuss with wrapping.)

(I'm sure direction for the oven are online too.)

Joyce

BRIAN POLIKOWSKY

You could get an easy bake over first and see how she likes them for very little.
Around here there are always brand new or little used complete sets of Easy bake ovens on goodwill for as little as a dollar.
That is how I got mine and several friends of mine did too. Worth looking around.

 
Alex Polikowsky

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Heather

If you do buy a used one, you might want to check this out first.
One of the older Easy Bake Ovens was recalled....
http://www.hasbro.com/customer-service/recall/Recall-Easy-Bake-Oven.cfm



On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 9:12 AM, BRIAN POLIKOWSKY <
polykowholsteins@...> wrote:

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> You could get an easy bake over first and see how she likes them for very
> little.
> Around here there are always brand new or little used complete sets of
> Easy bake ovens on goodwill for as little as a dollar.
> That is how I got mine and several friends of mine did too. Worth looking
> around.
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Meredith

Mo Loved her Easy Bake Oven... the three times she used it. You just never know ;)

More than anything else, Mo likes to cook in the microwave. You can make cakes and cupcakes in them, just not in metal pans! But nowadays you can find all sorts of silicon bakeware and that's great for the microwave. You can find mixes or recipes for all sorts of baked goods for the microwave.

---Meredith

mitrisue

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> Mo Loved her Easy Bake Oven... the three times she used it. You just
> never know ;)

Same here. We got one last Christmas. Forget Dmitri, *I* was really excited to have one again, but I found the tiny amounts not as satisfying as I anticipated. The kids like it, but I think they're happier helping me with full-size batches of things.

Julie

Debra Rossing

Google 5 Minute Mug cake - use a big ceramic coffee mug and you've got a single serving cake in under 5 minutes (it takes 2 minutes to mix and 3 to bake, thus "5 minute" mug cake). Also, I think Pampered Chef used to have a recipe for making a chocolate cake in their Classic Batter Bowl (heavy glass measuring/mixing bowl) using the microwave. Currently, they have a yummy recipe for a Rocky Road Brownie Cake that uses stoneware in the microwave, nothing in the oven at all. I guess, what I'm mostly thinking is that there are ways to meet baking interest without buying "kid" products but rather using regular kitchen implements and appliances with care (even an Easy Bake oven requires care to avoid burns KWIM?)

Deb R



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Joyce Fetteroll

On Nov 15, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Debra Rossing wrote:

> 'm mostly thinking is that there are ways to meet baking interest
> without buying "kid" products but rather using regular kitchen
> implements and appliances with care

And maybe -- as I'm remembering back to my own Easy Bake Oven days --
what she's wanting may be the ability to create it herself. (Or as
much as she can at 4.)

So if you do a mug cake or something small like that, you may want to
make some mixes up with her. Something simple that she could pour into
a mug and put into the microwave to create something real (mostly) all
by herself. I remembering that being the big draw of the Easy Bake
Oven. I too didn't use it more than a few times because what it made
wasn't all that great, but I had fond memories of it because it
allowed me to do real things not just pretend.

Joyce




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