The Easy-Bake Oven is a working toy oven manufactured by Hasbro that originally used an ordinary incandescent light bulb as a heat source, but later began using a true heating element. By 1997, more than 16 million Easy-Bake Ovens (in 11 models) had been sold. The oven comes with packets of pastry 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. The Easy-Bake Oven was introduced in 1963 by Kenner Products, a Cincinnati, Ohio based toy company.

The original Easy-Bake Oven was designed to resemble a conventional oven, an appearance later abandoned. Today's Easy-Bake Ovens resemble microwave ovens. The Easy-Bake Oven was invented by Ronald Howes, a prolific toy inventor known for working with Kenner Products.

In addition to his creation of the Easy-Bake Oven, Howes also was involved in the creation of or refinement to a number of other Kenner Toy products, including Play-Doh, Spirograph, Give-a-Show Projector, and Close-and-Play Record Player.

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