Easy Bake Oven Recipes to Pass on to Your Child

Do you remember how as a kid you might have enjoyed playing with your Easy Bake Oven? Well I was pleased to find out the other day that these ovens are still for sale.

If you like the look of a vintage easy bake oven then you can find lots of vintage styles, unused and still in their packages online. As you might call the oven was heated by a light bulb and the oven came with a little pans and cake mixes for making the Easy Bake Oven Cakes. However these cake mixes are expensive and just about impossible to find which why I am glad that I kept my recipes for the Easy Bake Oven. I remember that I reduced and calculated all of the ingredients myself so that I would not have to pay for the expensive mixes.
Here they are –
Banana or Chocolate or Vanilla Cake
6 tablespoons flour
4 teaspoons sugar
¼ teaspoon baking powder
Dash of salt
Six teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons butter
3 tablespoons banana cream pudding mix (or chocolate or vanilla- whatever flavor you want to make)

Mix the dry ingredients together and then add vanilla, milk and butter. Mix until smooth and then add the banana pudding mix.

Butter and flour the little mix pans and pour the mixture in and bake in the Easy Bake Oven of 12 to fifteen minutes. Ice with chocolate frosting and press a candied banana chip in the center of each cake or make a little layer cake.

Easy Bake Peach Upside Down Cake
¼ yellow instant cake mix
3 tablespoons peach juice
A couple of canned pieces sliced into chunks
Brown sugar

Grease the pan with butter and cover the bottom of the pan with the brown sugar. Layer the peaches on top and then pour the batter over the peaches. Bake for twenty minutes. Let cool a bit and flip over when done. Serve with a bit of vanilla ice cream or milk poured over it.

Easy Peanut Butter Cake
6 tablespoons flour
4 teaspoons sugar
¼ teaspoon baking powder
Dash salt
6 teaspoons milk
2 teaspoons peanut butter
Mix the dry ingredients. Add the vanilla, milk and peanut butter and stir until smooth. Pour the batter into the cake pan and bake for twenty minutes. Let cool and serve with strawberry preserves or jam. You can also make a layer cake with the middle layer being peanut butter.

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Should Your Little Girl Wear High Heel Shoes Like Suri Cruise?

There has been trends among celebrities for them to allow their little girls to wear high heel shoes. The biggest star of this sort of style is little Suri Cruise, daughter of Tom Cruise, who struts around in gold lame two inch heels. She also has a silver beaded pair of two inch mules that she has been seen wearing in several photos. Is this something you should let your daughter do as well?

It's actually pretty hard to find a shoe with a high heel of any kind for a girl six years or younger. Nina makes a glossy pair of high patent leather boots with pointy toes for toddlers. Some of the cowboy boots made for toddlers also have quite a high heel. A company called Mootsie's is making little plastic and lame dress shoes for toddlers with a wide but quite high squared off court heel.

Believe it or not you can buy high heels for babies to wear. A company named Heelarious makes soft crib shoes that have a soft high heel and that are bright red. They have a cheetah pattern lining. These look like cartoon high shoes and the good news is that they are not going to hurt an innocent child's back. You can also get them in a leopard print, pink vinyl, black vinyl (to look like patent leather.)

If you don't want your child to wear high heel shoes but you want to gratify her fascination with them you can always get her a little gold or silver charm that looks like a high-heel. A lot of jewelry companies are also making high heels that are made out of ceramic. A company made TaiToolli makes a high heel shoe charm on a necklace that looks like fake pave diamonds.

You can also buy glycerin soap in the shape of sexy high heels. Peppermint pink Cinderella shoe soap is available at Etsy which makes a lot of fun stuff for little girls and older women who are young at heart.

Little Posh Bebe is onto the trend and makes a little T-Shirt featuring a Zebra-striped pump with a real pink ribbon on it. The T-Shirt is paired with a set of Zebra striped flat shoes with pink velvet ribbons and an inside pink lining. This way your little girl can have the style without risking injuring her back as celebrity kid Suri Cruise is by wearing high heels while her spine is still developing.

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