Easy Bake, What ya gonna make!!

When I was little my grandma had an easy bake oven just like this picture. (but it was green) Everytime that I went to my grandmas house I remember baking with the easy bake oven. (thanks Debbi for sharing your toy with us for all those years) Grandma was always so patient with us while we made a mess. She would always make us some frosting to frost our cakes and of coarse we would then cover our cakes with lots and lots of sprinkles!! Boy this was fun, and the fun never wore off. It seems like I still used the easy bake oven as a teenager. (I am not sure that is true!!) I still remember the bowl grandma used to mix the batter and the little plates we used to eat our cakes on. When we were done I remember getting (yes I said GETTING) to was our dishes in Grandmas sink. We thought washing dishes at grandmas house was so fun. I think grandma knew how to make everything fun. What great memories.



This year Matayia asked Santa for an easy bake oven. I didn't know how I felt about this at first, I had always secretly hoped that my mom would get one at her house so that my girls could have easy bake oven memories with their Grandma. But I am now happy to be the one making memories with my girls. And so the baking began. As we mixed the batter it made me think of grandma. We then pushed the cakes in their little metal dishes in the oven, and it made me think of grandma. The cakes have to cook for ten minutes and my girls were so inpatient, it once again made me think of grandma and her great patient. (I am sure I was inpatient also) While we waited for the cakes to cool I got some frosting out of the fridge, unlike Grandma, I am too lazy to make mine I will just buy it. We then frosted our cakes and yes they sorta fell apart just as I remembered. But that was OK with me then and it was OK with my girls now. And then came the fun part, the sprinkles, I let my girls go to town with the sprinkles, and once again thought of grandma, she taught me through the years, don't sweat the small stuff, does it really matter if they use all the sprinkles on just one cake?? After all they are the ones that get to eat the cake!!



And then the eating began, As I watched my girls enjoying the cakes they had made themselves, I remembered the good ole days when I simple little cake covered with way too many sprinkles put such a big smile on my face!! But the fun didn't end there, of coarse we had to wash our dishes in the sink to make the experience complete. And just like I did when I was little they had a great time washing their dishes. And now the Easy bake oven experience was complete. I hope as the years pass I can create as many good memories with my two sweet little girls as my grandma did for me.