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Jakks Pacific Girl Gourmet Cupcake Maker
Review
With the Girl Gourmet Cupcake Maker, kids get a fun, easy, no-hassle introduction to baking. This educational and creative toy not only teaches the very basics of cooking–such as measuring and mixing–but its cupcake decorating accessories encourage kids to experiment with their own personal touches. If you have a microwave oven and an adult handy to supervise the fun, kids ages 8 and up can get started baking and decorating in no time. .caption { font-family: Verdana, H…
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1:41 am on August 16th, 2009
I reluctantly purchased this for my daughter, and I am so sorry I did. It takes less time and mess to make cupcakes from a mix and let your daughter or son frost them with canned frosting. The contraption to twirl the frosting onto the cupcake makes it come out in a big glob and actually flung some right onto the floor. It wasn’t pretty like on the commercial, and my daughter got so frustrated she was almost in tears. The cupcake is simply a microwave cupcake that looks disgusting. We haven’t tasted it yet. The maker comes with only 4 mixes and 4 frostings, which means you can make a total of 4 cupcakes for $30. I’ve seen additional mixes for $12. If it was really fun and easy, I wouldn’t be so harsh, but the whole thing was a huge disappointment.
1:58 am on August 16th, 2009
So my nephews and nieces came over and my daughter decides that she wants to open her birthday present and “bake”. We agree, because it only needed a microwave and some water to make “supposedly” tasty cupcakes. Easy right?? Not really…
And it begins… luckily we didn’t have to assemble which was a blessing. We grab the little mixing bowl and pour in the little powdery mix. ON a side note, a big annoyance is the fact that the set starts you off with 4 cupcakes only. One in each flavor: Vanilla, Chocolate, Red Velvet and Cinnamon. So luckily, the big kids that could participate were only 4 so there wasn’t any arguing. The down side once again… only one bowl and mixing spoon/spatula. We pour in the 2 tablespoons of water, daughter mixes and we pop it into the microwave with its appropriate container. Twenty-five seconds later; VIOLA! It is indeed a cupcake, but a spongy-holey looking one. Within a minute, my honest reaction was: “WHAT’S THAT SMELL?” I kept on asking if the dog had urinated somewhere. We discovered that the “glorious” smell was indeed the birthday girls Vanilla cupcake.
The next three children went, 2 tablespoons of water wasn’t enough for some of the mixes. Chocolate after it was nuked smelled like poop. Cinnamon smelled like cinnamon batter and Red Velvet smelled like different poop. Nonetheless… the 4 cousins were excited to ice. The contraption/syringe that you have to stuff the icing into is just way too small. When you finally load it and the kids start pressing down, it just plops down icing at the same point for each revolution.
At the end of the day, it was fun for them, stinky for all of us and too darn messy. You are better off with supervised baking then this junky mix. Wonderful idea, but the flavoring needs to be tweaked majorly. The kids licked off the icing and then proclaimed they didn’t want any more. TYPICAL!
2:06 am on August 16th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
Waste of time and money
What an overly complicated way to make cupcakes! Kind of like those “easy” bake ovens…nothing easy about them at all.
3:23 am on August 16th, 2009
Although this is a cute little cupcake maker, the cupcakes it produces are not (at least the frosted ones). The cupcakes cook quickly and quite well in the microwave, but the frosting part is a rediculous mess. The frosting is gritty and lumpy and is either too runny or comes out in globs. My daughter has enjoyed making them and says the cupcakes taste good though, so I guess it wasn’t a total waste of money.
4:29 am on August 16th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
Piece of junk
My 9 yr old got this as a birthday present with some overpriced additional sets of mixes. Trying to get the right consistency of the mixes was a chore and messy.
4:45 am on August 16th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
Very Disappointed
This is probably the most disappointing toy we have ever purchased. My daughter saved her allowance for weeks to buy this and was close to tears by the time we finished.
5:30 am on August 16th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
horrible
i got this for my 11th birthday and i hate it. It’s horrible. I made a cupcake and it made such a mess and it stuck to every thing also i put it in the microwave for 30 sec and…
8:27 am on August 16th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
save your money
I tried to tell my daughter the commercial makes it look better than it will be, I showed her reviews, she still chose to spend her birthday money on it.
10:17 am on August 16th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
Bought ONLY b/c it’s 1 of the few things my child asked for by name.
“A” for effort on the company’s part – “F” for everything else.
The cupcakes and icing taste gross.
10:51 am on August 16th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
Awful – messy, cannot be cleaned and tastes dreadful! Junk!
I bought this as a gift for my little girl and decided today would be a good day to try it out – today this will also go in the trash!
12:54 pm on August 16th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
Waste of money…
This was THE toy to have last Christmas. I really wish I would have read the reviews here before I purchased it for my daughter.
1:43 pm on August 16th, 2009
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not Perfect, But Fun and Cute
My four year old daughter received the GIRL GOURMET CUPCAKE MAKER as a birthday gift. She was very, very excited when she unwrapped it, and could not wait to make cupcakes with…
2:03 pm on August 16th, 2009
1.0 out of 5 stars
Make real cupcakes instead!
Sure you can get a cupcake in 25 seconds but it’s not worth it. The cupcakes are nasty, the frosting is disgusting and you’ve got a royal mess to clean up in the end.