Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven, Black/Silver

Boys love Easy Bake too!
I actually ordered this for my 7 year old son, who loves to help me cook. He paced the porch all day when the tracking number showed it out for delivery, and his reaction to the UPS truck did not disappoint. All this to say, he had very high expectations for how fun this would be.

This updated model sports the advantage of no longer using an incandescent bulb for heat, as these are increasingly difficult to come by. Other than that, this is your average Easy Bake oven. I didn't notice any difference between this model and models from my own childhood.

We immediately plugged it in and started mixing up one of the supplied mixes. After waiting 20 minutes for the oven to preheat, and 20 more for his cookies to bake, he was excited with his little pan of tiny cookies. One packet of mix yielded around a dozen nickle-sized chocolate chip cookies. Clean-up was minimal, although it would have been nice if the pans were dishwasher safe. There's even a little storage...
A childhood wish fulfilled
For years in a row as a kid my number one birthday and Christmas wish was an Easy Bake Oven. I was quite convinced I was simply going to DIE without one. Well, the years went by, I never got one, and I'm still here to tell the sad tale, so I guess lack of an Easy Bake Oven isn't fatal. Still I was awfully excited to get this one now in my middle years.

And now I see why my parents were never too keen to get me one. It is a fun toy, but it is a toy first, oven second. The mixes provided are practically microscopic in quantity and the resulting pastries are almost bite-sized. For a small mouse anyway. This oven comes with two pastry mixes plus frosting and sparkles. If you want to get additional mixes (which is pretty necessary if you want to continue using the oven), it'll cost you around $5.00 per mix or you can get an assortment of a dozen mixes for around $27.00. I can see why my parents didn't want to spend that kind of money. It's the gift that keeps on...
From One Extreme to Another
When I was little my sisters and I loved, loved, loved our Easy Bake Oven. Every girl friend and set of girl cousins we had loved their Easy Bake Oven. We learned to create our own mixes and our mothers found extra tiny pans,strangely enough often at the hardware store, that fit inside the oven. So, of course, when my own little girl asked for an Easy Bake Oven. I wanted to rush out and buy her one.

Unfortunately, the cheap bastards at Hasbro had down sized the product until it was The Easy Finger Cremation Device. Not wanting my daughter to lose a finger to an inferior version of the toy I had so loved; I delayed buying an Easy Bake Oven. Christmas 2011, I was thrilled when Hasbro put a new Easy Bake Oven on the market. This Easy Bake Oven was big; maybe bigger than the one my sisters and I used to own. It has an incredibly cool domed shape and it comes in my daughters' favorite color, purple. And look carefully at the oven door in the picture. Doesn't it look roomy...
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