<P> The Easy - Bake Oven is a working toy oven which Kenner introduced in 1963, and which Hasbro still manufactured as of late April 2016 . The original toy used an ordinary incandescent light bulb as a heat source; current versions use a true heating element . Kenner sold 500,000 Easy - Bake Ovens in the first year of production . By 1997, more than 16 million Easy - Bake Ovens (in 11 models) had been sold . </P> <P> The oven comes with packets of cake mix and small round pans . (Additional mixes can be purchased separately .) After water is added to the mix in the pan, it is pushed into the oven through a slot . After cooking, the cake is pushed out through a slot in the other end . </P>

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