I'm thinking about this for my 9 year old dd Christmas gift. Any first hand experiances with the new models? I found one on Amazon that comes with three mixes for $19.77, Is that a good price? also, can you use a reg cake mix with these ovens, I don't want to get stuck with a costly, onging situation buying the little, special Easy Bake mixes. Thanks for any advice.

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I don't know how well they actually cook, but in our newspaper yesterday Target had a toy book. They had the oven for $19.99 and had a coupon in the book where you get two mixes for free if you buy the oven.

My DD had the Barbie Bake with me Oven and the Easy Bake Real Meals Oven. She loved them both until she outgrew them. Too bad I just donated them! I'd have shipped them both to you!

We never tried real cake mixes but I've heard you can use them. I think there was an article in the paper once about them. We just bought the mixes. She used to put them on her birthday & Christmas list, Easter Bunny would bring them and she'd sometimes buy them with her own money. Occasionally you'll see a $1/2 coupon here and there.

PS: I just googled "Recipes for Easy Bake Oven" and quite a few came up!

Lisa

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I loved mine when I was little. I would think it's still popular.

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OMG, my DD loved her easy bake oven! Her aunt (DH's sister) used to come over and they would spend hours baking goodies. Just like lisacb, we used to put the mixes in her stocking, Easter basket, etc. If I was baking, I would give her some of the mix and she would bake mini versions in her oven. You used to be able to buy different baking sets, too, that came with differnt pans, frosting tools, etc.

I don't know if they now come with the lightbulb, but make sure she has one when she sets it up or you'll be like me, driving to Rite Aid to buy the bulb on Christmas day. LOL.

Yes, we used the regular cake mixes, you just have to modify the recipe unless she wants to bake a TON of little cakes. I would definitely suggest it - there is a reason this toy has survived so long. It's wonderful.

I had one when I was younger and loved mine. Yes you can use regular cake/cookie mixes with it.
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Isn't the Easy Bake Oven one of the typical Black Friday specials? I seem to remember seeing it go for more in the $10 range as a loss leader a few years ago (when I was shopping for Christmas angel).

That said - I LOVED mine - 40 years ago!

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I brought mine to college with me. No joke! It was a HUGE hit in the dorm. I never out-grew it!

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Thank You all SO much- I long for the simple toys of way back when......
I just don't know if I should wait until Black Friday or not......geez, agonizing over a few dollars! LOL!

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I loved my easy bake oven. I know for certain that it is because of that toy I am the great baker that I am today!! My brother used to pay me a quarter to make him peanut butter cookies!!!

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I also have seen them for $10 on black Friday. My dd loved hers. She is 11 and we just got rid of it. Just make sure and dry the pans really well so they don't rust.

I got one for DD years ago when all the great internet deals were happening -- I think it was around $9.00. We had many threads here on MC about homemade easybake recipes. It was a big item that year because we all got them so cheap. Just google it and you'll find tons of recipes. It is a fun toy.

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I don't have any recent experience with them, but I loved mine when I was a little girl.

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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I will have to second the negative post. Although my daughter liked it when we got it out, it was such a pain that it rarely got used. I would think if your dd was a bit younger it might be a good gift, but with her being 9, I would get her a kids cookbook, kid-sized apron, and maybe a chef's hat. She is old enough to start learning how to cook "real" food for the whole family, rather than a bite-sized bit for herself

I'll third that. Sorry, my DD had one, and we were very disappointed with it. DD loved that she could do her "own cooking" but, honestly, you have to buy the mixes ( I didn't look into recipes on the net) to use with the oven and it just was not worth it to us. I bought DD some of her own cooking things, and she would bake, with me, in the kitchen.

Also, while we're talking about some "old time" toys..... let me also say that Baby Alive is a dud, too. You can't wipe her face clean

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When I went to wake my daughter for school there was a distinct odor of illness, I thought she had been sick overnight and let her stay home from school. When she grew up she told me that she had put the cake mix from the easy bake in her trash can and that was the smell I smelled and she thought that it was a hoot to have stayed home because of her easy bake oven.

We had the same one! I remember that turquoise! Now they look more like microwaves, I think -- at least DD's did, ten years ago.

I loved mine. One word of warning -- you couldn't use a "soft light" bulb to bake (at least in DD's) -- it had to be a standard bulb.

I agree, there are millions of recipes on the internet.

I used to bake for my aunt and grandparents every weekend. I loved that thing so much! Sadly, DD was never as attached to hers. Rotten kid! LOL.

ETA: I just read the post about the lightbulbs? No bulbs anymore? How do they bake? What a shame, to screw up such a great toy.

Editing again to add I just looked at the Hasbro website and it said "Classic Easy Bake" is back -- using bulbs. I guess they realized they made a mistake.

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I say yes both my dd;s loved it when they were younger , go for it, she will love it... peace. Catherine

Welll...it looks that those of us highly recommending the Easy Bake oven are talking about the Easy Bake oven of a long time ago....back when safety standards weren't so stringent and a light bulb to cook was OK.

Nowadays, our sue-happy society and lack of common sense and parenting have dumbed-down the toy to protect idiots from themselves. (Disposable diapers are flammable. Please keep your baby away from open flame )

cj/

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Couldn't have said it better myself. Now it's off the soap box and to the corner of the living room to play with my Lite Brite.

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I had an easy bake when I was a kid. It was my aunts when she was a child. It literally was the size of a small oven with a reg size light bulb. I would bake and bake and bake! I loved it. When I had a little girl and realized that the easy bake ovens were the size of a large shoebox, I just taught my daughter how to bake with a real oven. She has never had an easy bake and has never regretted it. She thought it was cool standing on a chair in the kitchen cracking eggs.

There was a product safety recall on the Easy Bake ovens a few years back,not sure when. I think it was due to the light bulbs, too.

It appears they have fixed it.

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I got an EB oven for my daughter when she was small, and she had absolutely no interest in it. I think it sat it the back of the closet until a year or two ago. Now, she is 18 and still does not enjoy cooking....hmmmmm, maybe I should have forced her to easy bake.

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OH! Lite Brite! Loved it...remember spriograph??

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I wished for an Easy Bake my Mom always said "there are four of you if I buy you something I have to buy everybody something"

We did have Lite Brite and Spirograph and my son did too when he was little.

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...ooooohhhhh, loved me some Lite Brite!!!!

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I loved the spinning paint thingy.....that was so much fun to make such a mess.

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I say YEAH for this one since it is one of the very few things I never had as a child.
But the debate side of me says NAY since you can teach your child to cook with real boxes of cake mix and use the over (but then she will have a lifetime of opportunity to do this so go with the EasyBake)

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