Easybake Oven Gourmet

by David Hoffman

Book Overview

When it debuted 40 years ago, the Easy-Bake oven was touted as "the greatest girl's toy since dolls. In truth, this ingenious little working oven inspired generations of budding gourmets of both... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0762414405
• ISBN13: 9780762414406
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

My 3 year old and I love it!

This book is so cool! It's a cookbook with recipes from famous chefs, created expressly for the Easy Bake. The recipes are unlike anything else out there ever created for the Easy Bake oven - and to that I say Hooray! Those prepackaged mixes are garbage and it's a thrill to see what this little toy can really do. Tells the whole story (with great pictures) of the Easy Bake oven. Me and my three year old daughter had a blast making the Pecan Icebox Cookies in the cookbook and she was so proud to share them with her friends. My sister, a total food snob, is even intrigued by this book!

score will depend on why you bought this book

if you want a book to show you how to make your own easy bake mixes for the fraction on the cost, this is NOT the book for you. buy the Baking with Mommy Cookbook: Recipes for Kid-size oven. (highly recommended) this is a great book if you want to see the history of the oven and other really cool facts. the recipes are great for OLDER teens and adults. what kid really wants something with lobster in it? i got it for my kids when they get older. i thought it might be a neat thing to look through. ok...i also wanted to hit the $25 mark for the free shipping.

Very Clever - and Very Fun! - Book.

I recently saw the author interviewed on "Unwrapped", and knew I had to have this book. Yep, I was one of those who always wanted - but never got - an Easy-Bake Oven! The book is a blast. The trivia and facts are interesting, and I especially loved reading the chefs recollections of their first experiences cooking with one. Some of the recipes are quite complex (I'm not sure I'd even be capable of trying them in a regular oven!) but that's all part of the fun. Would love to see a show like this on TV, where chefs compete to create gourmet dishes using a not so gourmet (but hugely popular) item. Anyone at Food Network listening?!?

Creative Thinking and Cooking at Its Finest

This is a delightful book - so original, fresh and over-all terrific. Author, David Hoffman has put together a great combination of a history book (of the easy-bake. . should have its own museum) and recipes from established chefs. This is the most fun book I've seen in a long, long time. I've already given it as gifts to many people - even the ones who don't go near an oven - easy bake or no! Also seeing Hoffman on CNN and "The Today Show" it's clear this guy is a pro.

I should have written this one

I had this idea about two years ago to buy an Easy-Bake oven and do some experiments with it to see what it was really capable of. I never did get around to doing those experiments, but I might wind up giving the oven to my nephew as soon as his mother thinks he's old enough to play with it. As it is, I acquired an Easy-Bake when I was in kindergarten or so, but never got to play with it -- in my mother's infinite wisdom, the cord was clipped because it was "too dangerous".That wasn't very nice of her.So, in celebration of the Easy-Bake's fortieth anniversary, someone else -- David Hoffman, TV writer and reporter, probably with Hasbro's prodding -- got around thirty chefs, including some very well-known ones like Rick Bayless and Bobby Flay (both of whom had Easy-Bakes as kids, even though it was a "girl's toy"), to come up with recipes using the oven. The recipes in it are serious cooks' food, from lobster pie to salsa to shortbread cookies; the best of them (the most impressive being an Easy-Bake-sized Linzertorte) get to be one of a select half-dozen recipe cards attached to the cover. And there's a very impressive history of the oven itself at the beginning, showing all the versions from the original through the extremely elaborate early 70s version (that even included a temperature control and timer) up to the modern white/purple/pink model. I'm not too sure how seriously to take the book. The chefs involved obviously did it for pure hack value, and I would suggest taking it in the same spirit; many of the recipes are somewhat impractical done over a lightbulb, but they're still worth a shot just for fun. The kitsch value is high, but if nothing else it proves that the Easy-Bake is a toy worthy of both boys and girls.