Playing homemaker is still around but the 1970s were probably the last gasp of it being the norm. The 1980s saw a rise in little girls playing career woman, so things like the Easy Bake Oven became less prevelant. However, we’re looking at 1974 and it was all the rage to emulate “Betty Crocker” and whip up a sugary treat in the playroom. 
Not even children were immune to Fondue-Mania
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I like to think of it as the Easy Bake food poisoning kit… which is to say, that it's important for parents to continuously buy their children something to bake in that "oven," or like my sister and I, they may in fact try to experiment by "cooking" things that shouldn't be cooked by a common light bulb.
True story: as kids, my sister and I cooked an egg in the Easy Bake oven, and then ate it. (Yum!) Think Betty Crocker ever had the b***s to cook an egg with a light bulb and then eat it? I seriously doubt it.
As tasty as those little cakes were, my sister wouldn't share the fruits of her 40-watt labor. Instead, she would feed her cakes to her Baby Alive. Needless to say that raised several other issues a few months later.
I had a friend who made me a chocolate brownie in one of those things. She said "Here you go." So I popped the whole thing in my mouth and oh was it good. Then she proceeded to tell me that I was supposed to share. She even went and whined to her mom. Sheesh. Thanks….
How funny, My wife was just telling me about her Easy Bake oven adventures just the other morning. I missed out on any of the goodness that came from these ovens, but I did, on occasion, enjoy a helping of Play-Doh
I might have tried some Elmers glue or ate pennies a time or two myself…
That kiddie fondue set is da bomb!! Could any toy possibly be more 70's?? It's what candy cigarette vending machine was to the 50's.
I had an easy bake oven in the
1980's. It wasn't as fin as the similar toy my brothr had where we could make rubberized bugs and reptiles….I think it was called Creepy Crawlies or something like that.
OMG, I had that fondue set!!! Totally hawesome!!!! dipping marshmallows in the sickly sweet chocolate…those 'forks' really didn't work that well….oh my gosh the memories….-chris
Loved my easy bake oven I got for christmas in the early to mid 70's!Made the little cakes for my family that christmas morning. Suprised at how good they actually were !
I can only imagine how bad that fondue must have tasted…