I guess I probably knew from the moment I had a daughter that a day would come when the Easy Bake Oven would enter our lives. It’s really inevitable that at some time in a girl’s life, she will be overcome with the desire to make baked goods using nothing but a packet of powder, a teaspoon of water and a 100 watt lightbulb.
So when Gulley and I were in the midst of our Christmas shopping weekend and she asked if I thought Caroline would like an Easy Bake Oven, I laid down in the aisles of Target and cried.
In reality, I told Gulley that I thought Caroline would love the oven so she bought it for her for Christmas.
Two days after Christmas we all exchanged gifts and, sure enough, Caroline was thrilled with her very own oven. Gulley’s son, Will, was so impressed that he quickly informed us that he’d like Caroline to make the cake for his birthday party using her new Easy Bake Oven, which would be such a sweet idea if the cake was larger than one serving size.
And really, even then, it would have to be just one person who doesn’t really care for dessert.
Anyway, the next day we busted out the Easy Bake Oven at the bright, sunshine-y hour of 7:00 a.m., but then tragedy struck when we realized we didn’t have any 100-watt light bulbs. P and Caroline quickly headed to Home Depot to secure the proper wattage because he is much nicer than I am and, let’s be honest, you know he was hoping for some of that cake.
Easy Baking from Big Mama on Vimeo.
There are a few things I’d like to point out about the video.
1. I have always believed that “if we don’t get stirring, it won’t be good”. It’s practically my life motto.
2. Please notice that I had my large whisk at the ready. Clearly, I’d forgotten that those packets produce about two tablespoons worth of batter and the large whisk was an ambitious choice.
3. I love the way she enunciates “CUP. CAKE.” I believe her enunciatory skills may be directly inherited from her great, great Aunt Fina who definitively ended every word with a “T”.
4. Something about the way she tells me “We can share it” seems insincere and totally reminds me of Dwight Shrute on The Office.
5. I adore the phrase “a little jiffy”. I wish I could take credit for teaching her that, but she is completely self-taught.
And speaking of self-taught, I don’t know where she learned to lick the batter of her fingers like that.
Certainly not from me.