I never got an Easy Bake Oven as a child.

[Darth_Kitten]

:(

Always wanted one of those things. Since I love cake and all. :)

[lizziegrace]

1. Then it should stay on your list til you get one

or you can treat yourself. They're fun. :)

[Rosemary2205]

2. You was abused!

:)

[SarahB]

3. I loved my lightblub cakes.

I was sad I never had a Light Bright or an Atari. :(

[Critters2]

6. I had a Light Bright AND an Easy Bake Oven

I was spoiled.

No Atari, though.

[ekelly]

18. I was spoiled as well....

I had Light Brite, an Easy Bake Oven and a Shrinky Dinks set! (Remember the oven/heater/box thingy for the Shrinky Dinks?) I really loved that!

[Ellen Forradalom]

4. Me neither. When I was old enough (around nine)

I baked with the real oven--with supervision, natch.

[Left Is Write]

5. I didn't either.

However, my mother did teach me to bake using the regular oven.

[I Have A Dream]

7. Me either.

I never had a Barbie doll either. Finally, after mentioning it (she would probably say "casting it up") to my mother several times over the decades since I was a child, she got me a Barbie princess doll in my late 30s. :eyes:

:rofl:

(It made a nice addition to my company's Toys For Tots bin the next year. :))

[Kali]

31. Me too! Got my first Barbie at 30 (we are the same age, she and I)

Had Skipper and Francie as a kid but for some strange reason my progressive-for-their-time parents wouldn't succumb to the message of Barbie.

So on my 30th birthday I got my Barbie (western and her horse, natch) during a big cattle round-up mid-day meal in front of a bunch of real cowboys.

[YellowRubberDuckie]

8. I didn't either...

But I did have a grandmother who liked to bake and liked to let us help her bake. So THAT was much better!!
Duckie

[Eurobabe]

9. You were truly abused then

I LOVED my easy bake oven. And my mattel thing that made these nasty edible creepy crawler toys. At least I think they were edible. LOL, maybe that's what's wrong with me...??

[Archae]

10. We had the "Thingmaker" set too.

When I was a kid.

Oh man, did we have a BLAST making Creepy Crawlers, flowers, and those weird-looking pencil guys.

(And getting burns from the hot plate and molds, of course!) :D

[Bjornsdotter]

23. I still have mine

....Creeple Peeple, Creepy Crawlers, Giant Creepy Crawlers and the Fun Flower set.

I'm hoarding them, like a miser with gold. I was offered a lot of money for them, but I'm not parting with 'em.

As for the burns, I have a scar on my finger from the Thingmaker....good times

:toast:

[Frank Cannon]

24. Ah, yes, the many times I burned myself on theThingmaker

That was back when children were real men and women and no one freaked out over getting a blister.

[Eurobabe]

27. Yeah, today there would be lawsuits

:eyes: or RECALLS!!! Child burns self on electric toy that heats to 180F!!

[Eurobabe]

26. Wasn't there one that you could make edible things?

On edit: I just found it, Incredible Edibles! Anybody remember those?

I knew we were eating creepy crawler type things too. They had such an unusual taste. LOL, I used to ingest all kinds of weird things when I was a kid. :rofl:

[RevolutionaryActs]

11. I didn't have one either

:cry:

[Magrittes Pipe]

12. That's why you drown puppies now.

Admit it.

[Deja Q]

13. The new ones work even better; they replaced a light bulb with a real heating element...

As a result, more kids were making "finger cakes"...

:hide:

http://www.hasbro.com/default.cfm?page=cs_recall_eb_oven



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy-Bake_Oven

...currently a product of Hasbro, is a working toy oven that for many years used an ordinary light bulb as a heat source, but now has a true heating element.

What next?

BEFORE:


AFTER:

(that'll keep the little tykes busy...)


Or even better:

BEFORE:


AFTER:




:hide:


On edit: Oops, I didn't see the toy bedpan...


Go do #2 in this one instead, kids... and don't try that at home!

[masshole]

14. ahh memories of growing up in the 70's

my friend would "borrow" his sister's EZ Bake oven and we would use it to cure our homegrown. :smoke:

[laylah]

16. actually...and PLEASE

correct me if I am wrong, but I am thinking it was the very late '60's 'cuz I had one :shrug:

[masshole]

17. maybe, they made it for years

but our use was in the early 70's. Wiki says Kenner introduced it in 1963, so you are also correct.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easy-Bake_Oven

[Eurobabe]

28. I had mine in the late 60s because we lived

in a very small town on Lake Erie from 1968 - 1972, and by 1970 I was into football, and not my barbies or easy bake anymore. HAHA!!

[trof]

15. You can use our's.

I think my daughter's is in the attic.
She's 35 now and has finally graduated to a full size gas range.
I've eaten my share of gummy pound cakes.
"WOW! What a good cake, honey. THANK YOU!"
:-)

[Fleshdancer]

19. My mom bought me one and was disappointed when I refused to play with it

I discovered early on that food tastes better when someone else cooks it for you. ;)

[EFerrari]

20. Me, either. But my godfather did get me five Barbies on the black market

in Chinatown after he was all done gambling. I think he needed something to bring home so no one would nag at him. As I recall, it worked like a charm. :)

[bridgit]

21. me...

:cry:

[devilgrrl]

22. I had one. Used it once.

This was in the late 60's. We mixed a box of Chocolate cake mix, the pans were real small, so it produced a lot of cakes. A 100 watt light bulb was the enery source and it took what seemed like forever to get done. My father couldn't have been more bored. He was real fun guy... :eyes:

You didn't miss anything.

[u4ic]

25. I got one when I was 4, for Christmas

There was a flood in the basement a few months later, and it was damaged beyond repair. I never did get another one.

[treestar]

29. My nephew got one

He watched cooking shows on TV and really wanted to bake stuff.

Old fashioned family members freaked out. I can't believe in the 21st century people are still stuck in sex roles, after all the enlightenment of the 70s and 80s.

[Kali]

32. I bought one for my youngest son in the early 90's

same issue - had to take a black felt pen to all the pink plastic before we gave it to him. WTF? Plenty of manly cooks out there, no need to make it pink. Think my little sister's was blue back in the even more sexist 60s.

[treestar]

35. It's funny what has happened to that color

There's no reason for those ovens to be pink, but then it's funny how pink is so adamantly feminine.

We need to bring the Miami Vice look back to let that color get some more respect with the male sex!

[GoddessOfGuinness]

30. I never did either.

My mom taught me how to use a real oven instead. No biggie.

[Kali]

33. Me either.

the year of electrical heating gifts from Santa, my little sister got the ezbake oven and I got the creepy crawler maker.

[InkAddict]

34. I understand that Otis Spunkmeyer makes something like

a grown-up version of the Easy Bake Oven especially for baking the OS cookies on-site.