If I knew you were coming, I’d have baked a cake …

One NIU student thought that would be reality, until a care package sent from home containing an Easy Bake Oven was mistaken as a possible bomb.

A call went in sometime after 4 p.m. of a suspicious package in Grant Towers North. University Police immediately responded and cleared the lobby.

The terrorist attacks in New York and Washington Tuesday increased awareness for suspicious-looking packages, said Lt. John Hunter of the University Police department.

The Winnebago County Bomb Squad was called immediately. At 6:40 p.m. they arrived and began investigating.

Many students became worried when they saw the bomb squad.

“Hopefully, it’s nothing,” said Javier Arroyo, a freshman architecture major and resident of Grant North, as he watched.

The bomb squad worked for nearly an hour and a half, taking X-Rays and making sure everything was OK.

At 8 p.m., the bomb squad confirmed that everything was safe and informed onlookers that the package was nothing more than an Easy Bake Oven.

Grant Towers residents were not informed of what was going on in the lobby. Any student who wanted to enter the building needed to use one of the side entrances.

Hunter said if a threat was determined, the building would have been evacuated immediately.