Alright, I'm going to be the gloom and doom poster. I bought one for DD and it's been nothing but headaches. Let me vent:

No light bulb because that's "too dangerous". If the pan isn't put in the oven with steady hands or the pan is too full, a baked on mess covers the interior. This is nearly impossible to clean because the toy has been modified to prevent kids from sticking their hands in the hot opening. Great engineering feat, except you can't get anything in there to clean up the mess, either.

Two months after we bought it, Grandma calls me up and says the manufacturer has a recall. I call and we have two choices; request the part to fix the potential harm to children or ship the oven back to them for a voucher to purchase a different product. We opted to fix the oven and the part they sent made putting the cakes in even worse. We threw the new part away.

I've found the oven works best if you spray pans with PAM and line the bottom with parchment paper. The mixes another poster googled work/taste fine and are much less expensive to use. If you choose this route, I'd fill the pans a little less full than they recommend to avoid a mess.

Overall, this is a loser in my opinion. When I was DD's age, my cousin had one and every time I went to her house we either played with the Easy Bake Oven (loved that lightbulb!) or made Shrinky Dinks. Apparently the manufacturer felt the improvements they made in the name of safety justify this piece of crap, but I'd stay away from it if you'd like to maintain your sanity.

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