| Wow, this brings back memories! I used to have one and baked
"surprises" for my Dad all the time. (The poor guy got to the point
that he dreaded coming home!) Anyway, I *did* have some successes. I
just used a homemade chocolate cake recipe (that is in the Choc. cake
note) and used my E-Z bake pans, voila! Mini chocolate cakes! I frosted
them and everything. I'd also recommend the muffin and bread mixes as
the previous reply did.
Don't worry, if you give the 'little chef' the right stuff, then you'll
get some very tasty rewards - they'll just be in the small side!
Good luck
beth
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| When I was a little kid, I received an Easybake Oven. Yes, I used those
prepackaged mixes which came with it, but it also had a little book of recipes.
Just last Christmas (prior to Christmas, actually), my niece (she was almost
7 at the time) expressed an interest in the Easybake Oven currently being sold
in stores (it was a surprise to me that were still made!)
Anyway, I was at my parents house over Thanksgiving last year, and my father
dug out my old Easybake oven. My parents had kept it wrapped up in plastic
along with all of the accessories. I took it home, scrubbed it up, and tried
it out. Sure enough! It worked just fine! Guess what my niece got for
Christmas from Auntie last year? Also, I ordered a complete set of mixes and
bowls, etc., from the Sears Catalog (the set of mixes is distributed by
Wilton, the cake decorating people).
But this entire story is a digression. If I can remember it, I'll try to get
a hold of the recipe book (Please note that it's very small) and type in the
recipes here (please don't expect it too soon. I'm very busy). As I recall,
all of the recipes in the book (from the 1960's!) are for cookies, cakes, etc.
Does anyone else out there remember their old yellow Easybake oven in which you
had to slide the pans through on runners? That's the kind I had (and now my
niece uses). Got to admit, it's fun to "watch it cook" again!
-Mary Ann
P.S. By the way, my niece thought that it was neat getting her auntie's toy for
Christmas.
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| >>back a few...
Yes! I had the same easy bake oven that you did in the late 60's, except
mine was blue. My parents, poor fools, bought me the oven for Xmas, and
a cotton candy machine for my birthday 12 days later! Mom always saved
some batter, dough, etc. from anything she made, and I used that.
The only disaster anyone recalls (and they recall it every time we get
together) is the chocolate cake I made and decorated *before* baking
with half a container of redhots, for my sister's Valentine's Day surprise
while she was sick. The candies melted into a rock-hard mass. She
couldn't bear to break a 6 year old's heart by refusing to eat it, so
she tried to taste it and broke a tooth. It was so hot it made her eyes
water. The next day, though, she suddenly improved and came home from
the hospital.
Hmmm, she's been catching everything that comes along lately, since
she's on chemo for cancer. I wonder...if I made another one and gave it
to her at Christmas.....Meanwhile, I can't wait till my niece is old
enough for me to buy her one to torture her mother (my other sister) & my
parents with.
Becky
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