Don’t let the number of ingredients in the picture scare you. It’s all very tiny amounts (of course) and it just gives the kids more to measure – always fun!

Gather up your ingredients and find your little cook:

1 Tbs. brown sugar

1/2 Tbs. peanut butter

1/2 Tbs. pancake syrup

1/16 tsp. vanilla

1/4 cup oats

1/2 Tbs. butter

1 Tbs. chocolate chips

Combine all the ingredients and press into greased and floured pans. Bake 12-15 minutes. Makes 2-3 cakes.

When my youngest daughter asked for an Easy Bake Oven for Christmas, my first thought was of eating expensive light-bulb baked cakes. But I found out that you can use real food in the Easy Bake Oven and Santa was given the green light to bring one in his sack.

He also brought a copy of Baking with Mommy Cookbook, which has some great little recipes in it, including this one for Marshmallow Mud.

Gather up your ingredients:

2 Tbs. Rice Cereal (we used Honey Bunches)
5 small marshmallows
1 Tbs. chocolate chips
1/2 tsp. butter

Butter the pan

Put the cereal in the buttered pan

Put the chocolate chips in

Add the marshmallows and smoosh them down a bit. We learned the hard way that there is not much room inside the Easy Bake Oven.

Bake for 5 minutes. Stir and drop by spoonfuls onto wax paper. The kids were happy with the taste of these.

We also made a little chocolate fondue in the warming cup, by filling the cup with chocolate chips.

Yum!