How to make cheap Easy Bake Oven mixes

Your kids want to make goodies in their Easy Bake Oven, but you don't want to fork out any more cash for the mixes?? Here's a few ideas that will help the pocketbook!

Things You'll Need

• Easy Bake Oven
• A child who wants to bake
• A desire to save money

Instructions

1. 

   Use a commercial cake mix. Simply mix 3 tablespoons of any flavor cake mix, with 1 tablespoon of milk. Grease pan, stir cake mix and milk until smooth and pour into pan. Bake in pre-heated Easy Bake Oven for about 15 minutes. One cake mix is less than half the price of an Easy Bake mix and makes much more.

2. 

   Use Jiffy Mix! Jiffy mixes are cheap, and half of box equals 1 Easy Bake Oven mix. 50 cents or less per mix sounds good to me! Follow the recipe instructions, but remember to divide by 2. Bake between 10 - 15 min, it may take some trial and error depending on the mix.

3. 

   Willing to spend a little more time, but a little less cash? Try making the recipe from scratch. For Brownies, Mix 2 tablespoons flour, 1 tablespoon of milk, 2 teaspoons of sugar, 1 teaspoons of chocolate milk mix, 1 1/2 teaspoons shortening, 1 pinch of baking soda and a dash of salt. Spread in a greased Easy Bake pan and bake for 12 minutes.

4. 

   Here's a great recipe for Peanut Butter Fudge. Also from scratch, but pretty simple and very inexpensive. This recipe makes 4 Easy Bake pans of fudge. Blend 1/2 cup icing sugar, 1 tablespoon peanut butter, 2 teaspoons cocoa, 2 1/2 teaspoons milk, 1/2 teaspoon butter or margarine and 1/4 teaspoon vanilla. Spread into greased Easy Bake pans and cook for 5 minutes. It won't look done, but let it cool completely before eating.

5. 

   Here's something different... how about Easy Bake Oven PIZZA??? Mix 2 tablespoons of flour, 1/8 teaspoon baking powder, dash of salt, teaspoon of margarine, and 2 1/4 teaspoons of milk. Shape dough into ball and spread into the bottom and up the sides of a greased Easy Bake Oven pan. Spread 1 tablespoon of pizza sauce evenly over the dough then sprinkle with 1 1/2 tablespoons of mozzarella cheese. Bake 20 minutes in a pre-heated oven.

6. 

   Here's a really easy one, Easy Bake Oven Quesadilla's. Just cut wedges out of a small tortilla and spread into the bottom of a greased Easy Bake Oven pan. Sprinkle some shredded cheese on top, and then cover with a few more tortilla wedges. Bake for about 5 minutes, or until cheese melts.

Tips & Warnings

• Choose recipes that are at your child's level. For a young child, participating in making a recipe from scratch may be to long. Depending on the age of the child, you might want to make the mix ahead of time and let your child do the really "fun" stuff.

• Be careful when pulling pans out of the oven, they do get hot!