In my house, you didn’t enter the kitchen when mom was cooking. Our meddlesome kiddy fingers were always getting into the wrong things. So, we turned our curious culinary minds to the Easy-Bake Oven.

Easy-Bake Oven, the iconic children’s baking toy from the 1960s, has been relaunched for the holiday season with items already selling like hot cakes. “Few brands hold the iconic status and enduring ...

(History columnist Jeff Suess is on a special assignment. Please enjoy a story from the vault. This article originally appeared Dec. 23, 2012, and has since been updated.) Not all toys are made by ...