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Easy Baker

Aired November 04, 2003 - 15:12   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ANNOUNCER: Look at all of the delicious food you can make with Kenner's new Easy Bake sets and Easy Bake Oven.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: No, you haven't tuned into TV land. This is "LIVE FROM," as we continue to roll on, taking a trip down memory lane here. And I think of a certain age, we all have memories of this, our -- in my case, my sister cooking up those strawberry cakes. And to this day, I can taste that strawberry cake, unfinished as it was.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: In 1963, the Easy Bake Oven was born at Kenner. That company sold 500,000 in its first year for 15.99. In 1981, the ovens went hi-tech as the Easy Bake Mini-Wave Oven made it's a debut. And then by 1998, more than 60 million ovens were sold at more than...

O'BRIEN: Sixteen million.

PHILLIPS: Sixteen million?

O'BRIEN: Sixteen -- 16, yes.

PHILLIPS: OK. Oh, you followed that. And more than 100 million mix sets were used.

O'BRIEN: One hundred million strawberry cakes.

Anyway, the new 9-year-old baking champ of the Easy Bake Oven set is our guest today, and we should point out, as we introduce Olia Wall, that she wowed judges with her dreamy marshmallow cloud on a heart recipe. It's apparently a butter scotch lover's delight. And Olia is with us live from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Olia, congratulations on this great honor.

OLIA WALL, EASY BAKE 2003 BAKER OF THE YEAR: Thank you.

O'BRIEN: How did you get the idea for this recipe?

WALL: I had a lot of the things in my house, like, everything except the mixes. So, I like butter scotch and I like blondie brownies. So, I took those, and I thought, OK, well, I like marshmallows, too, and I have those laying around the house. So, let me see. OK, I want to make something with these. So, I originally had planned to put the marshmallow on top of the cookie, but I did that, and I put marshmallow inside of it to have more taste.

PHILLIPS: Yum!

O'BRIEN: So, it's just like all of the things you love best that just also happened to be in the kitchen. What a great recipe. Now, did you have any help from your mom, or did you do it yourself?

WALL: I had a little help from my mom with the sprinkles on top, the crushed peanut M&Ms.

O'BRIEN: Oh, yes, because you...

PHILLIPS: You had to have mom crush a little bit. You know, she's got little hands.

O'BRIEN: Give her some manual labor.

PHILLIPS: Yes, there you go. Put mom to work.

O'BRIEN: Mom, crush these peanuts. Get to it, mom.

PHILLIPS: All right, Olia, you received a $5,000 savings bond. We saw the big chick -- or the check, rather, being handed to you. What are you going to do with that $5,000?

WALL: I want to buy a horse.

O'BRIEN: A horse?

WALL: But my parents want me to spend it on college.

PHILLIPS: What about cooking school? Maybe put it toward your new restaurant?

WALL: I don't want to go to cooking school.

O'BRIEN: A little cordon bleu, maybe?

PHILLIPS: She doesn't want to go to cooking school.

O'BRIEN: You know what?

PHILLIPS: What do you want to do, Olia?

WALL: I like architecture and like being a director and stuff and directing stuff, so...

PHILLIPS: We need a lot of direction. Maybe we can get you in the control room.

O'BRIEN: Yes.

PHILLIPS: What do you think? O'BRIEN: You know, though, Olia, a lot of really great chefs, who, you know, win awards and open big restaurants, started with an Easy Bake Oven. Not you, though?

PHILLIPS: She's not buying that, Miles.

O'BRIEN: Now, tell me about this horse you're going to buy. Are you quite a horse person?

WALL: Kind of. A lot of kids my age, girls my age in North Carolina like horses, so it's like one of those things a lot of girls like. And I like them, too. And I ride at one of the local farms.

O'BRIEN: All right, well, Olia...

PHILLIPS: All right, we need your help here. Miles made a big boo-boo.

O'BRIEN: Oh, no, no, we made a boo-boo.

PHILLIPS: Oh, no, don't even try to blame this on me, pal.

O'BRIEN: OK.

PHILLIPS: I know how to use an Easy Bake.

O'BRIEN: That is our cookie. I don't know if you -- Olia, can you see that cookie? I don't know if you can.

WALL: No.

O'BRIEN: Imagine some mushed kind of partially cooked batter in a valentine-shaped pot -- pan. I had a problem -- I'd like your advice on this purple thing that pushes the food in and out.

WALL: Yes.

O'BRIEN: It's kind of hard to handle, it isn't it?

WALL: How were you using it?

O'BRIEN: Well, obviously in a very unskilled way.

WALL: You take the back and you press it in first.

O'BRIEN: Yes, I was pushing and I kept pushing, and then I tried to grab it and it dropped. And anyway, I guess the key is -- what is the key to being a good Easy Bake Oven cooker?

WALL: You really have to know the Easy Bake Oven. With five years of experience, I think I know it pretty well.

PHILLIPS: See? Five years' experience, pal.

O'BRIEN: There you go.

PHILLIPS: Well, what should he do with this kind of splatter in a cup right now? What do you think he should do with it, Olia?

WALL: Well, which mixes did he use?

PHILLIPS: He did the chocolate chip cookie mix.

O'BRIEN: Yes.

PHILLIPS: And it kind of looks like a chocolate chip blob of goo.

O'BRIEN: Yes.

WALL: Only the chocolate chip cookie mix?

O'BRIEN: Yes, yes.

PHILLIPS: Yes, ma'am.

WALL: He needs the butter scotch and the blondie.

PHILLIPS: Oh, you need a butter scotch and a brownie.

O'BRIEN: Oh, I should have got the butter scotch and the brownie.

PHILLIPS: And then, so we mix that up and then try it again, right?

WALL: Yes.

O'BRIEN: All right, we're going to get right at it. But, you know, in the meantime, what do you think? Do you think we should eat it, Olia? Try it.

WALL: I don't know.

O'BRIEN: Yes.

PHILLIPS: I think I'm going to stick with licking the frosting. I've been doing that all morning.

O'BRIEN: Yes, she's arleady scarfed up all the frosting.

Olia, congratulations.

PHILLIPS: You're adorable.

O'BRIEN: And we're glad you won the bake-off there. Olia Wall, 9 years old, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and she is the Easy Bake champion on this their 30th year -- or is it 40? Fortieth year.

WALL: Fortieth.

PHILLIPS: Fortieth year.

O'BRIEN: Forty years of making ovens like this. PHILLIPS: She's a 5-year pro. She's going to go at it again.

O'BRIEN: All right, we'll see you. Thanks very much for dropping by.

WALL: OK.

O'BRIEN: All right.

PHILLIPS: Bye, Olia.

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Aired November 4, 2003 - 15:12   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ANNOUNCER: Look at all of the delicious food you can make with Kenner's new Easy Bake sets and Easy Bake Oven.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: No, you haven't tuned into TV land. This is "LIVE FROM," as we continue to roll on, taking a trip down memory lane here. And I think of a certain age, we all have memories of this, our -- in my case, my sister cooking up those strawberry cakes. And to this day, I can taste that strawberry cake, unfinished as it was.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: In 1963, the Easy Bake Oven was born at Kenner. That company sold 500,000 in its first year for 15.99. In 1981, the ovens went hi-tech as the Easy Bake Mini-Wave Oven made it's a debut. And then by 1998, more than 60 million ovens were sold at more than...

O'BRIEN: Sixteen million.

PHILLIPS: Sixteen million?

O'BRIEN: Sixteen -- 16, yes.

PHILLIPS: OK. Oh, you followed that. And more than 100 million mix sets were used.

O'BRIEN: One hundred million strawberry cakes.

Anyway, the new 9-year-old baking champ of the Easy Bake Oven set is our guest today, and we should point out, as we introduce Olia Wall, that she wowed judges with her dreamy marshmallow cloud on a heart recipe. It's apparently a butter scotch lover's delight. And Olia is with us live from Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Olia, congratulations on this great honor.

OLIA WALL, EASY BAKE 2003 BAKER OF THE YEAR: Thank you.

O'BRIEN: How did you get the idea for this recipe?

WALL: I had a lot of the things in my house, like, everything except the mixes. So, I like butter scotch and I like blondie brownies. So, I took those, and I thought, OK, well, I like marshmallows, too, and I have those laying around the house. So, let me see. OK, I want to make something with these. So, I originally had planned to put the marshmallow on top of the cookie, but I did that, and I put marshmallow inside of it to have more taste.

PHILLIPS: Yum!

O'BRIEN: So, it's just like all of the things you love best that just also happened to be in the kitchen. What a great recipe. Now, did you have any help from your mom, or did you do it yourself?

WALL: I had a little help from my mom with the sprinkles on top, the crushed peanut M&Ms.

O'BRIEN: Oh, yes, because you...

PHILLIPS: You had to have mom crush a little bit. You know, she's got little hands.

O'BRIEN: Give her some manual labor.

PHILLIPS: Yes, there you go. Put mom to work.

O'BRIEN: Mom, crush these peanuts. Get to it, mom.

PHILLIPS: All right, Olia, you received a $5,000 savings bond. We saw the big chick -- or the check, rather, being handed to you. What are you going to do with that $5,000?

WALL: I want to buy a horse.

O'BRIEN: A horse?

WALL: But my parents want me to spend it on college.

PHILLIPS: What about cooking school? Maybe put it toward your new restaurant?

WALL: I don't want to go to cooking school.

O'BRIEN: A little cordon bleu, maybe?

PHILLIPS: She doesn't want to go to cooking school.

O'BRIEN: You know what?

PHILLIPS: What do you want to do, Olia?

WALL: I like architecture and like being a director and stuff and directing stuff, so...

PHILLIPS: We need a lot of direction. Maybe we can get you in the control room.

O'BRIEN: Yes.

PHILLIPS: What do you think? O'BRIEN: You know, though, Olia, a lot of really great chefs, who, you know, win awards and open big restaurants, started with an Easy Bake Oven. Not you, though?

PHILLIPS: She's not buying that, Miles.

O'BRIEN: Now, tell me about this horse you're going to buy. Are you quite a horse person?

WALL: Kind of. A lot of kids my age, girls my age in North Carolina like horses, so it's like one of those things a lot of girls like. And I like them, too. And I ride at one of the local farms.

O'BRIEN: All right, well, Olia...

PHILLIPS: All right, we need your help here. Miles made a big boo-boo.

O'BRIEN: Oh, no, no, we made a boo-boo.

PHILLIPS: Oh, no, don't even try to blame this on me, pal.

O'BRIEN: OK.

PHILLIPS: I know how to use an Easy Bake.

O'BRIEN: That is our cookie. I don't know if you -- Olia, can you see that cookie? I don't know if you can.

WALL: No.

O'BRIEN: Imagine some mushed kind of partially cooked batter in a valentine-shaped pot -- pan. I had a problem -- I'd like your advice on this purple thing that pushes the food in and out.

WALL: Yes.

O'BRIEN: It's kind of hard to handle, it isn't it?

WALL: How were you using it?

O'BRIEN: Well, obviously in a very unskilled way.

WALL: You take the back and you press it in first.

O'BRIEN: Yes, I was pushing and I kept pushing, and then I tried to grab it and it dropped. And anyway, I guess the key is -- what is the key to being a good Easy Bake Oven cooker?

WALL: You really have to know the Easy Bake Oven. With five years of experience, I think I know it pretty well.

PHILLIPS: See? Five years' experience, pal.

O'BRIEN: There you go.

PHILLIPS: Well, what should he do with this kind of splatter in a cup right now? What do you think he should do with it, Olia?

WALL: Well, which mixes did he use?

PHILLIPS: He did the chocolate chip cookie mix.

O'BRIEN: Yes.

PHILLIPS: And it kind of looks like a chocolate chip blob of goo.

O'BRIEN: Yes.

WALL: Only the chocolate chip cookie mix?

O'BRIEN: Yes, yes.

PHILLIPS: Yes, ma'am.

WALL: He needs the butter scotch and the blondie.

PHILLIPS: Oh, you need a butter scotch and a brownie.

O'BRIEN: Oh, I should have got the butter scotch and the brownie.

PHILLIPS: And then, so we mix that up and then try it again, right?

WALL: Yes.

O'BRIEN: All right, we're going to get right at it. But, you know, in the meantime, what do you think? Do you think we should eat it, Olia? Try it.

WALL: I don't know.

O'BRIEN: Yes.

PHILLIPS: I think I'm going to stick with licking the frosting. I've been doing that all morning.

O'BRIEN: Yes, she's arleady scarfed up all the frosting.

Olia, congratulations.

PHILLIPS: You're adorable.

O'BRIEN: And we're glad you won the bake-off there. Olia Wall, 9 years old, from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and she is the Easy Bake champion on this their 30th year -- or is it 40? Fortieth year.

WALL: Fortieth.

PHILLIPS: Fortieth year.

O'BRIEN: Forty years of making ovens like this. PHILLIPS: She's a 5-year pro. She's going to go at it again.

O'BRIEN: All right, we'll see you. Thanks very much for dropping by.

WALL: OK.

O'BRIEN: All right.

PHILLIPS: Bye, Olia.

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