The Easy Bake Oven I bought Mika for Christmas has been recalled for the second time - this time permanently. Soon they will send me a box to send it back to them in exchange for some amount of credit on Hasbro products. Problem is, I have a bunch of mixes that came with the oven plus a couple of more they sent me when they sent the "fix" for the problem. They are really expensive - $7-$11! -, and I want to use them up. So, I suspect in the next couple of weeks I'll be doing quite a bit of "easy baking" with the girls (don't worry, I don't let them anywhere near the oven by themselves).

Today we baked the yellow cake with chocolate frosting, pictured in the left. You can see below how the cake actually turned out. It didn't rise very much (surprise, surprise), but the chocolate frosting was yummy and the two went well together. My little girls were happy with it. They decorated with a cat cookie and pretended it was a birthday cake.