{"id":2071,"date":"2009-08-05T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-05T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2009-08-05T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2009-08-05T20:19:43","slug":"too-much-trouble-to-even-attempt-bake-oven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/?p=2071","title":{"rendered":"‘Too Much Trouble to Even Attempt’ Bake Oven"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I’m not sure who invented the so called<\/em> “Easy Bake Oven.”\u00a0 Betty Crocker, maybe?\u00a0 I don’t really care, although I must say that if the toy makers who did invent it, continue to put it on the market, they must change the name to suit it more appropriately.\u00a0 If anything, to warn mothers.\u00a0 It seems to have become some sort of rite of passage for every girl to have at least owned an Easy Bake Oven.\u00a0 I remember mine; although I don’t remember my mother helping me bake with it.\u00a0 I’m sure she must have.\u00a0 The directions are way too complicated for any five-year-old to follow.\u00a0\u00a0 I also remember all of my friends having their own Easy Bake Oven.\u00a0 McCanless has hers thanks to Aunt Kate this past Christmas.\u00a0 Although it has morphed into a more modern looking <\/em>machine, it is still the same plastic box that only holds one pan at a time which must be shoved in and out with the yellow “Easy Bake Oven Wand.”\u00a0\u00a0 No real working buttons.\u00a0 No door.\u00a0 I vow here and now to buy every one of Kate’s children their very own Easy Bake Oven. I just hope it doesn’t get fancy and “Easy”<\/em> by that point.<\/p>\n

It isn’t so much the mess that ripping open packets of powdered frosting and batter make, or even the dozens of tiny bowls, miniture spoons, or doll sized spatulas required that are hindersome.\u00a0 What really\u00a0 bothers me is that after spending three hours measuring “1\/4 teaspoons” and drops, and shoving cake pans into the side of the oven with that double sided hook arm “wand,” and prying cakes and cookies off of tin with bent spatulas, you get two quarter sized cookies and one pancake size cake.\u00a0\u00a0 Not even enough to share.\u00a0 Although, McCanless always finds a way to cut and serve her very own “homemade” baked treats to all of us.\u00a0 Very “Five Loaves and Two Fishes” reminiscent. <\/em> Last night, I had a piece of cake no bigger than a crouton.\u00a0 Hardly worth the effort put into helping her make that crouton sized piece of cake.\u00a0 I will say, however, even though we bake together often in our “big people” sized kitchen, there is something special about pulling out that Easy Bake Oven with all of its miniature paraphernalia that is just different from whipping up an adult sized batch of brownies or cupcakes.<\/p>\n

I have never taken the time to photograph McCanless with her Oven in all of her glory, party because I’m trying to keep Mary Clare away from the burning light bulb and decorating goodies located ever so conveniently for her on the playroom table.\u00a0 Mary Clare will have her own turn one day.\u00a0 Maybe her very own Easy Bake Oven.<\/p>\n

I guess I should photograph McCanless with her treasured Oven and her fresh baked minuscule goodies.\u00a0 Someday she may be doing the same with her little girl and I can assure her that yes, I did help her with her “Too Much Trouble to Even Attempt” Bake Oven.\u00a0\u00a0 So, I guess all and all, it is worth the trouble.<\/p>\n

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Remember this?\u00a0 I googled and found this image, which is exactly like the Easy Bake Oven I had as a child.\u00a0 Circa 1982.<\/p>\n

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I’m not sure who invented the so called “Easy Bake Oven.”\u00a0 Betty Crocker, maybe?\u00a0 I don’t really care, although I must say that if the toy makers who did invent it, continue to put it on the market, they must change the name to suit it more appropriately.\u00a0 If anything, to warn mothers.\u00a0 It seems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2083,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2071\/revisions\/2083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.babypennington.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}