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Easy Bake Oven
by Kenner
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This memory was added on: December 20,2005
I remember receiving my easy bake oven for my eigth Christmas in 1972. My mom said I ran to my parent's room saying "I finally got it." I rembmer baking for hours making little fancy cakes.
Linda O
1964
This memory was added on: December 14,2005
I loved my Easy Bake Oven, I also had the popcorn maker that you put in the oven and then you put the popcorn in the hole and you waited for the popcorn to pop and then you pulled the hand and the popcorn fell out of the bottom into the bowl. I love the frosting, cakes, pies. I don't remember what happen to mine but I loved that oven. I even took it to school and made popcorn.
Anne
1959
asocknitter@msn.com
This memory was added on: December 3,2005
I loved my Easy Bake Oven. I can remember wanting to bake little cakes for everyone in my family. I still love to bake.
Lori
1972
lsmpeevy_72@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: December 1,2005
Mine was blue green or aqua colored. All plastic, I got it for Christmas in 1968 I think, maybe. I loved it but I always lost my place in the recipe book and unknowingly combine recipes making something that tasted awful. I'd save my money to buy the mixes that went with the oven. Mine worked off a a changeable light bulb. Don't remember the wattage..., I wish I'd saved it. That and a lot of other things.... ha!
Diana
1958
This memory was added on: November 21,2005
i used to love my easy bake oven i would make tons of stuff with it so much fun! ! !
Katie
1956
XoKSWxo11@aol.com
This memory was added on: November 13,2005
I had the Holly Hobby easybake oven, I loved it!!I baked cakes, and had "afternoon teas" all the time! lol I talked about it to my friends many times over the years, but they couldn't remember that particular model, then when I was watching The Santa Claus 2 with Tim Allen, what should one of the gifts be that he handed out at the teachers christmas party, but the holly hobby easy bake oven just like the one I had!!!! I wish I could have held onto that, I loved it.
Tanya
1974
tanyayouden@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: November 6, 2005
I also had an original easy bake.What were they thinking?It really was dangerous and got really hot.My daddy a week later cut the electric plug off of mine.I had to pretend cooking.
brenda
1960
its5oclockalways@midsouth.rr.com
This memory was added on: October 7, 2005
I remember getting my brown and yellow easy bake when I was about eleven years old, around 1978. I loved mixing my cakes in my little yellow plastic bowl and making cookies using some regular cake mix and water. They tasted fabulous at the time. I still have my oven. The pans are long gone, but it sits with my Dressy Bessy and Dapper Dan dolls in my spare bedroom. Some day we will all bake together again.
Christina
1967
CMcCarty99@Hotmail.com
This memory was added on: October 1,2005
I had a passion for Holly Hobbie when I was little. I remember going to the home of one of my dad's co-workers. His daughter had a Holly Hobbie Easy bake and she even said I could have it because she didn't play with it anymore. My mom wouldn't let me have though ) : I had so many other toys though!
jen
1977
This memory was added on: September 15,2005
As a boy, my dad and I would be playing with the Hot Wheels track, anxiously awaiting my sister to finish baking the cake in her EZ Bake Oven. They were the best and the best of memories!
Bob
1962
Rabramson@pjax.com
This memory was added on: August 27,2005
My best friend Kathy had an Easy Bake Oven. She also had 5 sisters! But, she and I would mix up little chocolate cakes and wait for them to bake. Then gobble them down before we had to share. They were simple, happy times. Today's kids are really missing out.
Roxie
1955
This memory was added on: August 16,2005
Reading the entries on this site made me so nostalgic for the beautiful aqua Easy Bake Oven I received for Christmas in about 1970, I must call my mother tonight to see if it is still in her attic. If I was a wonderful aunt, I'd offer it to my 2-year-old and 4-year-old nieces, but I'm not.
Sandra Wolf
1963
wolves@bigpond.net.au
This memory was added on: August 11,2005
I remember getting an Easy-Bake Oven for Christmas one year, and making cookies for some friends of my parents! The "technology" was something else -- as I recall, what made the oven hot was a combination of a 60-watt (or maybe it was higher) light bulb and a bunch of mirrors...can you say "fire hazard?" :-)
The cookies were always pretty tasty, although I remember making pizza that was totally gross! I got my daughter an EBO for her birthday this past year -- boy have they come a long way since the 60s! They're all smooth plastic now (I remember the original was metal with sharp, pointy edges) and look a lot like microwave ovens. The food is better, too. They have more "exotic" fare -- like s'mores poptarts and rice krispie treats (do I smell a deal w/ Kellogs...?)
Bon Appetit!
Melanie
1960
This memory was added on: August 7,2005
I still remember the Christmas when my older sister received her Easy Bake oven. It was one of the early greenish ones. We just about wore that thing out! And of course, sometimes got blisters on our little fingers!!!
My daughter has the one that looks like a microwave. She has loved it. So have I. Think my toddler son has his eyes on it these days. THAT should be interesting.
PJ Hedrick
1961
pjeanhedrick@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: August 2,2005
Boy, this site takes me back. My Mom likes to tell the story of me being a little girl helping her cook. She would try to help me and I would throw my arms behind my back and say "Do by self, Mommy". I was around 3. I don't remember the year I got my Easy Bake Oven or the color. Would have been around 68' or so. All I do remember is how much I love it. I am told that I am a wonderful cook. I owe it all to my Easy Bake Oven. It gave me a taste of cooking that I still have today. It was great. My Dad got tired of my cookies and cakes but I loved it. I intend on buying a replacement on Ebay one day. Any Mother today would do well to buy her daughter or son one. They are terrific!
Linda
1960
lindalou871@peoplepc.com
This memory was added on: June 17,2005
My easy bake oven looked like a regular stove with the blue/green burners and the different colored knobs for your switches. I had great fun with that oven. My Mom would save me the pot pie tins to use in it and to tell ya the truth? I made mass quanities of toast with that thing and a 40 watt light bulb! LOL! I remember my brother giving me that easy bake oven for Christmas one year. I think he save baby sitting money to buy it from a second hand store. I didn't care, I was in all my glory at 8 years old and I think he may have been 12 at the time. Very thoughtful brother. I'll never forget him doing that for me.
Robin W.
1964
summer64@showme.net
This memory was added on: June 16,2005
I remember my red, easy-bake oven with the little fake stove on the side. I was so excited when I got it for Christmas. It was the year before my baby sister turned one and I turned 8. (She was born on my seventh birthday when I actually asked for another retro toy..does anyone remember the "Baby Alive" doll? Well, I received a REAL BABY GIRL instead. *grin*) Anyway, I used my easy bake oven to make her first birthday cake. I even decorated it myself! My mom took pictures of my little sister with her cake. I still have the pictures, but I wish I still had the oven, too!
I just bought my neice, Amy Grace, (my little sister's daughter) one for her fourth birthday, which is today. She is SO EAGER to get started baking with it! I hope she has as many fond memories of hers as I did with mine!
Denise
1968
sunnyhsmom@gmail.com
This memory was added on: May 23,2005
My easy bake oven was the Holly Hobbie version. Old time style and made great vanilla cakes!
tami
1971
tamisweetie@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: May 4,2005
I did not have an actual Easy-Bake Oven. I had a Sears knock off...but it was just as cool. Actually, I think I liked mine better because the door opened. It was shortly after microwaves became really popular so it looked like a microwave. Because it was less expensive than the Easy-Bake, I also got this really big set of bakeware and mixes that you could buy separately. When I finally ran out of mixes my mom bought me Jiffy mixes to use with it. I loved that thing...kept it until I was in my early twenties when I sold it in a garage sale. Now I wish I would have saved it. Oh, well...My son asked for and got an Easy-Bake for his 6th birthday. I was excited because I remember my oven so fondly. I hope he has as happy memories of his.
Karen
1973
Syren92573@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: April 27,2005
I love Easy Bake. I never had one as a kid but bought my daughter one and we have experimented a lot. She loves to make MUFFIES, which are Jiffy Blueberry muffins baked in her easy bake oven. She frosts them with cream cheese mixed with powdered sugar and they are really good!
For whoever asked about replacement parts, go to http://www.hasbro.com/forms/orderform.cfm?prod=Easy%20Bake%20Oven&sku=655100401 to print out an order form - pans are only $1.50 and they have all the other gadgets too.
Have fun!
Allie
1969
butterfly4918@Hotmail.com
This memory was added on: April 21,2005
I wanted an Easy Bake oven so badly for Christmas when I was 7. And that Christmas, my older brother decided to show me how to peek at Christmas presents! When my mom left for the afternoon, he took me into our parents bedroom. They kept all of our Christmas presents in their closet. And he showed me how to very carefully use one of Dad's gillette razor blades to slice open the tape (the gifts were already wrapped) on the ends, and carefully slide out the box. Then after looking at each one, we re-wrapped them. I was so excited to see the big box that contained the easy bake oven. We didn't even have to unwrap that one because she had wrapped it in blue tissue paper (must've run out of regular wrapping paper) and I could see the picture on the box through the tissue! It was all so exciting and felt deliciously sneaky and devious! I'd never done anything like it. Well, come Christmas morning, I felt so let down and anti-climatic because I already knew what everybody was getting, including me! Although it was an interesting thing to discover, that my brother had us peek at everything EXCEPT his gifts!!! So he still had a fun surprising Christmas while I was disappointed not to have any surprises. But I still loved the oven, and I remember making the little cakes all day long to give to everyone in my family. My regret was that mom never bought me replacement mixes. So we just used Bisquick to make a scone-like cake and topped it w/jam! They were yummy! I bought an easy Bake oven on ebay last year. It's in a box under my bed, and I just love knowing it's there!
Paulette
1961
This memory was added on: April 12,2005
I don't remember having an Easy Bake oven but going through old pictures my sister pointed one out under the Christmas tree So, we must have had one. I think we were too little to really enjoy it because I remember being older and going to a friends house and they had one in their basement. Who knows how old or CLEAN anything was but we cooked up a cake and left the mess and went home.. What pigs. Now I know why my Mom probably got rid of the thing before we could remember even owning one..
Gina
1964
GinaUSA@aol.com
This memory was added on: April 9,2005
I had the aqua green model of the Easy Bake Oven...I loved that thing! Burning fingers, etc...who cared! I used to mix flour and water and bake it and couldn't figure out why it tasted like flour and water and not cookies! I'm sure my brothers broke it in the end, just like all my toys!
Mary
September 1960
mary2m69@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: April 3,2005
I'm always coming back to this site. It's the bestest. A big thanks to the webmaster.
I also got the ol' "That thing is junk. It's a waste of money. You want to cook in a real oven" I love how mom's always told you what you wanted. Also I was told that Easy Bake Oven cakes give you worms to try to shut me up.
Alas I finally got it for Christmas. Seems like nobody was afraid to get worms cause they scarfed those yucky cakes right down. Well I mean cupcakes called cakes.
Noelle
1960
This memory was added on: March 11, 2005
I was insanely jeoulous of my friends because they were rich enough to have an Easy Bake Oven! Mom said, "It was a waste of our good-hard earned money because you have a real oven right here and you can bake a regular cake".
Paula
1964
paulalynnette@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: March 9, 2005
I still have the scar on my wrist from reaching in and hitting the bulb - did this thing have oven-mits for all the budding chefs? We would make a double batch of frosting for one cake.
we learned that the nightstand lamps in our parents room would replace the oven bulb nicely if we were to rough with the appliance. It would piss off the parents and we would deny the exchange - What?...they got cake.
cute site - had to look at the girl toys because my sister got all the good stuff- not bitter.
scott
1966
bellboy839@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: February 9, 2005
ARE YOU READY FOR THIS....I WAS 6 WHEN MY OLDER SISTER GOT HER EASY BAKE OVEN, IT WAS THE BEST CHRISTMAS EVER BECAUSE I GOT THE LOST IN SPACE "12" TALKING ROBOT. WE WOULD TURN OUT THE LIGHTS AND TURN ON THE TREE LIGHTS, TURN ON MY ROBOT AND HAVE HIM PATROL BACK AND FOURTH IN FRONT OF THE OVEN WHILE WE WAITED FOR OUR GOODIES TO BE DONE!
webmaster
not long ago
info@powerdotcomsusa.net
This memory was added on: January 28, 2005
I had the microwave version, although at the time I had no idea what a microwave was, as we didn't have one. I used all the mixes, and then my mom wouldn't buy more because they were too expensive. However she would give me batter when she was making a cake, and I learned to use the recipe book as well. I would usually decorate the cakes in this crazy over-the-top style: jimmies AND colored sugar AND the little ball things AND two kinds of decorator icing, etc. I was not about restrait back then!
Andrea
1971
NewDawn29@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: January 28,2005
Geez - was there anything tastier than those little cakes?? I doubt it. I still remember how delicious they were. I vaguely remember getting another easy-bake when I was like 18 (I asked for it out of nostalgia) and the cakes were no where near as good as they were in the 70s - I guess progress doesn't always equal better.
Kimberly
1972
peacedaily@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: January 28,2005
This was the coolest toy ever. I think my oven was some permutation of orange, yellow and red, and there was this red stick you used to push the pan through to the other side. My dad loved peanut butter, so I used to frost his cakes with it. The fudge brownie mix was actually pretty tasty. SO much fun.
Cherylyn Washington
1972
no@spaminmy.oven
This memory was added on: January 21,2005
Oh boy did I ever want one of these. I wanted to make little cakes for my Dad, the kindest man on the planet. I kept begging my mother for one. She would say "You're not getting that it's a waste of money. Don't you want to make a REAL, Life-size cake in a REAL oven like Mommy?" and even though I didn't know the correct vocabulary at that young age, I remember clearly that my feelings at the time, expressed now would be "F**K That! I want my OWN oven with my OWN pans". Years later in high school, I had a friend who said her mother had tried to sell her the same story when she was little. I remember telling her what I had thought and she said that she felt the exact same way! LOL
B.L.
1971
bell_starele@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: January 10,2005
Geez! That was supposed to be the FOLLOWING year. I can actually spell folks! :o)
Sharry A.
1966
HardyGirl66@aol.com
This memory was added on: January 9,2005
I had an orange and yellow one in 1974. I loved that thing. I used up the mixes that came w/ it,and then my mom used to give me spoonfuls of cake, cornbread and brownie mix when she would bake to put in mine. Then I remember the flowwing year, I asked for the Easy Bake Oven potato chip maker. This consisted of dehydrated potato flakes, BBQ, and Sour Cream/onion powder, and this weird thing that resembled a plastic cake frosting tube. Anyway, it didn't work in the oven and we wound up making the chips in a frying pan. Then another time, when I was using that u-shaped pan holder to put my devils food cake in, it tipped over and got cake mix all over the light bulb! Yucchh! Burnt smell all over the house! We had to let it cool, and chip the burnt stuff off. The oven was OK, but I could never use it again w/o smelling burnt chocolate! Hee-hee!
Sharry A.
1966
HardyGirl66@aol.com
This memory was added on: January 3,2005
we had the topper toys suzy homemaker collection of toy appliances they were like the cadillac in toy appliances the stove was huge as was all their appliances they were amazing toys i miss those days of my youth
mike g
1963
mgrella63@aol.com
This memory was added on: December 31,2004
I was just trying to explain what my easy bake oven looked like to my 15 yr. old daughter. I can remember it quit well. It looked like a real stove with the little burners on top and the oven door that opened down.
Lisa
1965
lbash2000@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: December 18,2004
I had the Holly Hobbie version, cause I rock! :)
Rachel
1967
aorok@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: December 10,2004
Best baked goods I've had to this day!!!
Cindy
1965
This memory was added on: October 1,2004
WOW! I loved my Easy Bake oven! One day i was going to cook a cake and my older sister Kim thought it would be funny to put chocolate mint patties on the little burners, and it ruined it :(
Sue
1962
srich123@msn.com
This memory was added on: September 6,2004
My cakes always turned out raw inside and I hated the clean-up, so I just kept it for about 20 years until my mother gave it away. Same with my Big Burger Grill.
Linda Love
1956
Etherial_2000@msn.com
This memory was added on: August 23,2004
I received a green Easy Bake Oven for Christmas when I was 7 years old. Geez, I loved that thing. I would make a cake and share it with my family, slicing it like a big cake. (Made for teeny pieces.) My mother would buy refills all the time. I probably gained a few pounds. Sometimes I would just eat the batter! Yuck. I have very fond memories of my EBO.
Cee
1964
prairiechick36@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: July 9,2004
Aaaah, the memories. In 1972, my dear sweet parents were young and poor but they saved up to buy me a turquoise Easy Bake Oven for Christmas. I loved it SO much -- I put it next to my bed. I'd wake up in the morning and check to see that it was still there so I could make "breakfast". Since my folks couldn't afford the refill packs, I'd "cook" hot dogs, baloney slices and other "light bulb" cuisine. HA!! I get downright misty at the memories. Who knew my love of cooking would start with such humble beginnings? What fun!
Annette
1965
This memory was added on: June 1,2004
I remember getting my Agua green EasyBake oven when I was 6 and had the mumps. I remember being so miserable and my older brother carrying me downstairs to see my gifts. I stopped feeling bad when I saw that Easy Bake Oven box. I fell in love right then and there. I made so many cakes using the Jiffy cake and frosting mixes that my Mom would get. My mother gave my oven away when I 12. Boy I was heartbroken. I would love my oven back. I may have to E-Bay it.
Linda
1964
ldelizabeth@juno.com
This memory was added on: June 1,2004
Mine was the green "Suzy Homemaker" model, which I always thought was cooler-looking than the Easy Bake. There was a door in the front with a kind of a yellowish window, and you could watch the cake rising if you hadn't messed it up mixing the batter. I used up all the mixes that came with it before Christmas morning was over, and didn't want to eat supper that night...
I also had the Suzy Homemaker Grill, which was an open metal griddle kind of thing that these days would be a lawsuit waiting to happen. My cousin and I went out on the sidewalk with it and started frying hamburgers and selling them for a dime each, undercutting the real hamburger stand up the street. The owner of that stand sent a cop down to run us in for selling food without a license. I still think our burgers were better than his.
Lizzie
1963
lizmcl@lycos.com
This memory was added on: May 29,2004
This memory was added on: May 27,2004
dolly
7-27-57
porpoisewmn
This memory was added on: May 27,2004
christmas 67.10 years old and elated that santa could bring such a present.i baked till my hearts content. lost the baking pans though. 34yrs. later i am still dragging my Easy Bake Oven around. this time to my home in florida.i will never let go of it.
dolly
7-27-57
porpoisewmn
This memory was added on: May 10,2004
i got a red and black checkered one when i was little and i loved using it on a rainy day and making little layered cakes--4 layers and putting my families names on them. i really enjoyed it alot and it brings back happy memories.
chris davis
1971
chrisdavis89@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: May 10,2004
also i am looking for a red and black checkered one
chris davis
1971
chrisdavis89@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: March 25,2004
As the daughter of a male feminist, I had to purchase my own barbie doll (which I later convinced my self was new and not from a garage sale).
I did get dolls for Christmas but I also got hot wheels cars as well and my dream of an Easy Bake Oven never arrived.
So I did the next best thing.
My Mom secretly bought me the refill supplies (pans, mixes, etc) and I proceeded to fire up the real oven and pretend it was an easy bake oven. Without adult supervision mind you at the age of 8.
How whacked is that?
Ah the memories. I loved my GE avocado green 4 rack, electric coil, easy bake oven....
sparkalina
1970
whatsemail
This memory was added on: February 27,2004
Yeah, little brothers could wreak havoc with Easy Bake Ovens. My older sister got one for Christmas and we guarded that thing like hawks whenever he came nosing around. He didn't mind too much as long as he got to eat some cake!
I remember looking in the window to see if the cake was finally ready. A-N-T-I-C-P-A-T-I-O-N. Loved it. My daughter loves her microwave version. Timeless product.
Independencedaybaby
1961
pjh0704@cs.com
This memory was added on: February 6,2004
My sister got an Easy Bake Oven in around 1960 and she loved that thing. My brother, who was about 5 yrs old, decided to experiment with the oven in the bedroom, unbeknown to the rest of the family. He tried to bake peanut butter & jelly sandwiches for himself and his friend Barry. Needless to say, it smoked up the place so he and Barry ran out of the bedroom scared. By the time anyone noticed the smoke coming from the bedroom, the sandwiches were ruined and so was the oven. Luckily it didn't set the place on fire. My sister was so upset about her oven's demise and we still laugh about it every now and then.
Cynthia
1951
This memory was added on: February 5,2004
I vividly remember my sister getting this toy, gleefully opening the box, running to the kitchen while Mom got out bowls. My (older) Sister all excited, rips into the package, dumps the contents in a bowl and guess what we found? MAGGOTS! That's right, maggots. Yech.
This memory was added on: December 31,2003
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! I MUST SAY AS A CHILD I DID NOT HAVE AN EASY BAKE OVEN. MINE WAS A SUZY HOMEMAKER OVEN MY MOM WOULD GIVE MY SISTER AND ME THE EXTRA BATTER WHEN SHE BAKED A BIG CAKE TO COOK IN OUR OVEN. WHAT A BLAST! LAST YEAR FOR CHRISTMAS I RECEIVED MY FIRST EASY BAKE OVEN (I AM 40)MY HUSBAND AND I SERVED OUR CUSTOMERS AND STAFF AT OUR SALON WARM BROWNIES RIGHT FROM THE OVEN! IT TOOK US ALL DAY TO MAKE ENOUGH FOR EVERYONE THEY WERE WOUNDERFUL!! CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW CRAZY OUR CUSTOMERS THOUGHT WE WERE? WELL,THEY'RE RIGHT! WE LAUGHED ALL DAY!! WHAT A GREAT FEELING!
DAWN & TOM MERRELL
1963
rublushing39@hotmail.com
This memory was added on: December 28,2003
I HAVE A 5 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER WHO ASKED SANTA FOR AN EASY BAKE OVEN THIS YEAR. WE JUST FINISHED MAKING HER FIRST CAKE. SHE GAVE HALF OF IT TO HER DADDY, SHE ATE THE OTHER HALF. SHE SAYS SHE IS GOING TO COOK TOMORROW NIGHT. THIS BROUGHT BACK MEMORIES OF MY EASY BAKE OVEN. MINE WAS AVOCADO GREEN. MY MOM STILL HAS A PICTURE OF ME CHRISTMAS MORNING MIXING UP THE CHOC. CAKE MIX IN MY NEW RED MIXING BOWL, I BAKED IT RIGHT BESIDE THE TREE. I STILL HAVE THE OVEN AND AS FAR AS I KNOW IT WILL STILL WORK, THE PANS ARE RUSTED. CAN ANYONE TELL ME WHERE I CAN FIND MORE SO THAT I CAN GIVE THIS OVEN TO MY DAUGHTER?
CARMEN
1966
dunnahoe@bayou.com
This memory was added on: December 24,2003
I had the turquoise oven; I got it when I was about three years old. My mom let me bake a couple of cakes in it, but most of the time I would use it to pretend to cook the dishes I watched my mom cook. I still had most of the food packs at least seven years after I got the oven, but everything was misplaced somehow during a move. I don't know why I'm so nostalgic about a little plastic oven with a tiny light bulb as its heat source. Probably because at three years old baking in that oven was the closest I would come for years to pretending I could bake like my mom; I couldn't play with my mom's oven but I sure could play with mine (with supervision of course)! My love of baking continues to this day; I'm sure the greatest influence for that is my mom, but I have to give my turquoise oven a little credit too for giving me the outlet to play "Mom".
Bridgette M Gardenhire
1965
bgardenhire@sbcglobal.net
This memory was added on: November 26,2003
I loved baking sweets for my daddy, and I actually did a wonderful job(I was in kindergarden I think). To this day I owe credit to The Easy Bake Oven for helping me become the great chef that I am. THANKS EASY BAKE OVEN!!!
Angie
1967
kimmbah@ivillage.com
This memory was added on: November 26,2003
This was my favorite thing to play with for a few years. I baked cakes for my mom and little brother. It took a long while to bake though, but I loved the excitement and inticipation( I remember sitting on the floor and watching the cake bake everytime). There's another version out now, for the older girls(10 years and up). But the Easy Bake for little girls is still out there even after all these years. Kudos to the original creator of this toy!
Charmaine
1967
saturdaychildac@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: October 30,2003
I had a second-hand Easy Bake Oven that I inherited from my dad's half sister. The thing that drove us nuts about it was that it would take forever to bake whatever concoction you put in it, and then take another aeon to cool off enough for the door to open. We solved this problem by stealing a box fan from my mother's bedroom and turning it on full-blast in front of the oven. Tiny cake in half the time!
Cynthia
1967
This memory was added on: October 21,2003
My Grandma was 38 when I was born so she was young enough to know what was popular. My most memorable Christmas was 1971 when I was awakened Late Christmas Eve by my older sister to "come see what nana got you". It wasn't wrapped so we promptly snuck into the bathroom and took the green Easy Bake oven from the box along with all the other goodies.The only thing is that we couldn't put It back in the box properly(too much for a 6 and 8 year old to manage). The look on everyone faces in the morning was priceless!! The oven was half out of the box that was ripped and bulging. No one said anything so I thought I'd gotten way with It. That is until I heard them laughing about It later.I would take peanut butter, flour ect up to my room and bake the most God awful stuff that I would feed to our dog. Oh the messes I would make!! Pepie survived all those goodies to live a long 18 years. I lost my oven during one of our many childhood moves but thanks to eBay bought another one that works.I now have bake offs with my 3 daughters using there oven and mine. Mine works better!! I would love to post a picture of me holding my oven. Priceless.
Sharlee
1965
ctreloar@rogers.com
This memory was added on: October 18,2003
My sister had a yellow Easy Bake Oven. I ended up with my cousin's hand-me-down, it was the puke green one. Had lots of fun with it. Really thought I was doing something big...........LOL.....
Gina
1963
davidwei@msn.com
This memory was added on: September 25,2003
Mine was green too! And I remember when they looked like microwaves, LOL!
Teeyay
1967
This memory was added on: August 25,2003
I think my love for baking to this day all started with the Easy Bake Oven. It made you feel so grown up.
Laurie
1962
ldnh03@yahoo.com
This memory was added on: July 12,2003
I gotta laugh, man! I remember "destroying: my little sister's Easy Bake Oven by placing one of my little brother's Batman Mego figures in it and leaving it in there for a while! What a mess!
HeyJoe
1964
This memory was added on: July 1,2003
I don't think there's a more fondly-remembered toy -- even though it took half an hour to make a cake the size of a 50-cent piece!
Remember when they re-designed it to look like a microwave?
Steve
1955
This memory was added on: June 18,2003
kathy
1960
katcave@ameritech.net
This memory was added on: June 18,2003
I remember Christmas 1967. I just knew I was getting an Easy Bake oven. I couldn't wait for Christmas morning. Well, what I got was an Easy Bake oven baking refill with a little pot and pan set. I had to make everything in my Mother's oven.I was crushed and now am looking for an original Easy Bake oven to fullfill my childhood dream!
kathy
1960
katcave@ameritech.net
This memory was added on: June 4,2003
my oven was classic 70s green and i used to try to make popcorn in it! and it worked! It was a hand me down from my sister. I made alot of cakes in that baby!
Karen
1969
txkarentx@msn.com
This memory was added on: May 20,2003
This brings back nothing but horrid memories of me being used as a guinea pig when my older sister would make me eat the stuff she made in this thing. Her fudge brownies tasted like tar patties and her cakes tasted like petrified dinosaur dung. I remember giving one of her Easy Bake cookies to a poor starving stray dog and he never came around the house again.
Kevin
1961
This memory was added on: May 12,2003
I got an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas one year. I loved it so much I made most of the cakes in the first couple of days and gobbled them up. Then it was difficult to find refills for the oven after a year passed. Bummer!
Jodi Kraft
12181970
JodiKraft.@kcmetro.edu
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