An Easy Bake Oven For All Ages!

blackberry-chocolate pielets

   So, I went into Williams-Sonoma (my part time job) on Friday for my shift.   Surprise!  We got in an electric personal pie maker manufactured by Breville.  Well I can tell you this, I now own the "Personal Pie" manufactured by Breville.  It is an amazing little machine that makes four four-inch pielets in under fifteen minutes.  Of course, that's assuming you are using store bought pie dough (not!) and that you don't fuss around with everything (Who me? never!).  

   I managed to hold off on taking this little beauty on a test drive for a whole day.  For those of you who know me well, this probably comes as a shock.  I know!  I know!  The days of purchasing an entire new bedding set (including curtains and rugs) from Ikea in Pittsburgh, driving home in the middle of the night, and staying up until 4am to put it all together are gone!  I guess this means I am growing up. 

    So far, I have made blackberry, banana-chocolate and blackberry-chocolate pielets.  But just imagine the possibilities: little pot pies, little quiches, and little tarts!  You know, this sounds a lot like the Easy Bake Oven.  Except, there is no light bulb just waiting to burn you when you pull out your tiny chocolate cake.  That was the seventies.  Most people didn't even know where their kids were much less protect them from a potentially deadly toy.

   Remember what I said about growing up?  I just purchased the culinary equivalent of the Easy Bake Oven!  Back in the day, I was super excited to make my own teeny chocolate cake in a toy that could set me on fire.  Today, I am totally psyched to make diminutive pies in an electric that could set my house on fire.

   Some things never change.  Or maybe they change so slowly you never notice them.  Or maybe they change enough that you come full circle a few times during your lifetime.  I don't know.  It's something to ponder while making fabulously cute and delicious pies in my "Personal Pie" machine.

   Easy Bake Oven Commercial -1972. Hilarous!

   PS:  Talk of dangerous kitchen electrics reminds me of my favorite television show ever,  "Arrested Development".  The clip below is from the episode that introduces the "Cornballer".  So, so funny!

   Michael, George Michael and the Cornballer