Easy Bake Microwave and Style Deluxe Delights

by Easy Bake

• Your cakes and cookies will be scrumptious ? and ?deliciously? pretty
• Deluxe baking kit lets you bake delicious cakes and cookies in your own home microwave
• Beautifully decorate them with fondant and frosting
• Kit comes with twelve tools to help you create and decorate your treats

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 3.2 x 16.5 x 11 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B003I85V00
• Item model number: 98003
• Manufacturer recommended age: 8 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,521 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
  • #20 in Toys & Games > Dressing Up & Costumes > Pretend Play > Kitchen Toys > Cooking & Baking Kits
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (54 customer reviews)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Budding bakers ages eight and up will love playing pastry shop with the Easy-Bake Microwave and Style Deluxe Delights Cake and Cookie Kit. With multiple baking tools, microwavable mixes, and easy-to-follow directions, this kit has everything your child needs to master the art of deluxe dessert making. Watch as your little chef has fun learning fancy cake decorating with the Deluxe Delights Cake and Cookie Kit.

Cake and Cookie Kit At a Glance Ages: 8 years and up Requires: Microwave and adult participation What We Think Fun factor: Durability: Ease of assembly: Educational factor: Novelty factor: The Good: Watch as your child has fun learning fancy dessert decorating The Challenging: Just like in grown-up baking, there's the potential for sticky situations In a Nutshell: A junior-sized pastry set for making junior-sized desserts

Includes everything budding bakers need to master the art of deluxe desserts. View larger.

Decorate your treats with fanciful frostings and delectable designs. View larger.

Everything You Need for Making Cookies and Cakes
The Deluxe Delights Cake and Cookie Kit has all the supplies necessary to make and bake creative deserts, including a rolling pin, measuring spoons, fondant mold, stampers, cookie cutters, cake pan, microwave-safe container with lid, and pattern plate. And of course, there are a variety of cookie and cake mixes, frosting mix, fondant mixes, and sprinkles for whipping up pretty, tasty treats.

Decorate Desserts Like a Real Pastry Chef
Use the molds to simply shape the cakes and cookies, or create designs and accents, such as bows or flowers, to top each masterpiece. Frosting mix and bright fondant mixes in various colors allow children to mix and match for delectable decorated desserts.

The included booklet features an Advanced Patterns section that shows kids how to make a polka dot or striped pattern, and then top it off with sprinkles. Children can also turn to the Baker's Tips section to avoid some potentially sticky situations. The directions show kids the techniques, but the choices are theirs.

What's in the Box
Rolling pin with four end caps, measuring spoon, fondant mold, detail stamper, letter stamper, four cookie cutters, microwave-safe cake pan, microwave-safe container with lid, pattern plate, pink sugar cookie mix, chocolate chip cookie mix, chocolate cookie mix, chocolate cake mix, raspberry cake mix, rainbow nonpareils packet, vanilla frosting mix, purple fondant mix, pink fondant mix, light pink fondant mix, yellow fondant mix, and instructions.

Product Description

Playskool Microwave and Style Deluxe Delights.

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95 of 97 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars A Yay From The Wee One and A Big Ole Nay From Mom October 17, 2010

By Karen Joan VINE™ VOICE

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Durability: 1.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 2.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   

I'll say right off the bat that my 5 year old daughter loved the EASY BAKE MICROWAVE AND STYLE DELUXE DELIGHTS KIT. She loved mixing up the cakes, loading them into the "cake pans," mixing and squishing the fondant with her hands, and pressing the fondant into the molds. She was very proud of making one tiny cake each for Dad, Mom, and herself, and she had a great time. That is definitely worth something in my book.

Now for the BUTS. And they are pretty big...
1. There is no way you can make the fancy detailed cakes and cookies on the package without using up all the mixes in the package. That means you would have to replace the mixes every time your little baker wanted to use the EASY BAKE MICROWAVE AND STYLE DELUXE DELIGHTS KIT. That makes this project a bit cost prohibitive.

2. There are lots of little tiny pieces, all of which you need to make a single, tiny cake, and, of course, the EASY BAKE MICROWAVE AND STYLE DELUXE DELIGHTS KIT does not come with its own storage box. I always end up using Ziploc bags, but you can still easily lose one of the multitude of necessary, aforementioned, tiny pieces, which, of course, you cannot replace.

3. Taste. YUCK. Admittedly, we have only make the raspberry flavored cakes with the hot pink fondant (the wee one is going through a MASSIVE pink phase), but they tasted dreadful (not that she knew), and are full of artificial ingredients. I really don't want to eat these, and I REALLY don't want my child to eat them (although she did declare her handy work delicious). I HOPE the chocolate will taste better, but I seriously doubt it will.

4. MESSY. This is a very messy project, especially with a 5 year old. You cannot get the mixes in the tiny baking dishes without making one.... We also ended up with fondant crumbs everywhere. And (although the box does warn you), the dye used in the mixes stains. My fingers were still pink two days later. The mess in and of itself is not an issue, we make big messes every time we cook together, but none of the myriad of tiny pieces is dishwasher safe. Additionally, if you need to use a piece in subsequent steps, then you need to wash those pieces between the steps. This makes the project longer and messier that it needs to be.

The EASY BAKE MICROWAVE AND STYLE DELUXE DELIGHTS KIT is a great concept. I loved my Easy Bake Oven as a child, and this seemed like its natural evolution. But I could use my Easy Bake Oven myself and clean it up easily; this definitely takes an adult and a lot more clean up time. This EASY BAKE MICROWAVE AND STYLE DELUXE DELIGHTS KIT simply fails on so many levels. My intention is to let my daughter use it a few more times, until the mixes are gone...and then it will disappear into the back of the cabinet. Read more ›

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Annoying for Adults, Awesome for Kids October 23, 2010

By Randi Morse VINE™ VOICE

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Durability: 3.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 1.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 5.0 out of 5 stars   

My 6 year old daughter loves to help me in the kitchen, and we regularly do some baking together. I will, however, admit that it's hard for me to let her do things herself, because I'm always worried that things will get really messed up. We had an easy bake oven and my daughter did have fun with it (and still continues to pull it out every once in awhile), but it's such a hassle to cook something for up to 15 minutes, and then to let it cool for another 10, only to get a little cake.

The Easy Bake Microwave kit is different, because it allows your child to bake treats in the microwave. For those who say that you can't bake "anything in 10 seconds in a microwave", I disagree. I've purchased some of the Betty Crocker microwave treats and while they're definitely not gourmet, they're still pretty tasty.

Mixing these kits is really simple, so my daughter was able to do it all on her own. And because it cooked so quickly, she was able to be fairly patient through the cool down time and had fun making the fondant with me. WARNING: it does stain, so make your little one very happy and take out an apron for her to wear while you're cooking! It also adds to the fun!

How tasty were they? I didn't care for the cakes, but my daughter and son really liked them. The only problem I have with the kit is that you have to purchase more kits in order to bake more cakes. With the original Easy Bake Oven you could use regular cake mixes to make cakes, saving tons of money. I haven't yet found cheat options for this kit yet, but I'll definitely keep looking!

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars My Daughter Loved This, I Thought It was a Science Experiment Gone Wrong October 1, 2010

By K. Groh TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE™ VOICE

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Durability: 4.0 out of 5 stars    Educational: 3.0 out of 5 stars    Fun: 4.0 out of 5 stars   

Okay, so this review will be split into two points of view: mine and my 6-year-old daughter's.

MY OPINION: This is a cute kit with a lot of parts. The cake mix comes in little packets that you mix with a small amount of water. Once the mix is made (and it smells horrible) you spoon it into the cake molds. They are much smaller than I thought but this is the first experience I've had with anything Easy Bake. I know, it's a sad statement on my childhood. The final cakes without fondant are no more than about 1˝ inches wide.

Here comes the interesting part. You microwave the cake mix for 30 seconds. That's it. I can't imagine anything cooking like that in 30 seconds. So when it comes out, it is this semi-wet, spongy looking thing. I have to wonder what kind of food product (or chemicals) will mix and cook safely in 30 seconds.

We then mixed the fondant which turned out to work well. We rolled it out, we pressed it into the molds and we used stamps on it to make designs. It helps to use a little confectioners sugar to keep the fondant from sticking to the tools and rolling pin.

Our assembled cakes looked much more appetizing with the fondant than when they were just cakes. Assembly was fairly easy and because of the variety of tools, it was pretty easy to make something that looked good (good enough for a child).

The final test was to try a bit. It was not tempting, even for someone like me with a sweet tooth. It tasted really odd and I had no desire to try another bite.

MY DAUGHTER'S OPINION: "I'm so excited! The stuff in the box looks really fun. Can we make them NOW??? Mmmm. The cake mix smells really good. It's hard to stir all the lumps out. Are the cakes cool yet? Can we put the fondant on them now? Wow, they look so good.... Can I put a flower on this one? Can I eat them now? Wahoo! They taste so yummy! Can we make the cookies now?"

The bottom line is, this is made for kids. It is well thought out in terms of ease of use (it's not perfect but the kids don't care). It makes something that looks enticing and good enough for a child to feel like they did a great job. However, my daughter eventually only took about three bites and has not asked for any more.

I don't want to think about what chemicals went into making it such an easy process but since we won't be eating it often - and realistically, the fun is in the making, not the eating. Since there is a limited number of cake mixes and I can't see buying more, I think I'll try to make some other small cakes (using real batter) and try some marzipan and fondant to cover them, using the tools provided. I'm sure we'll have fun doing that as well.

We have some pictures in customer images to share our finished cakes. Don't expect anything like what is on the box though! Read more ›