• Make super yummy cupcakes with the brand new girl gourmet cupcake maker
• Make the perfect cupcake icing swirl with cupcake maker
• Decorate your cupcakes with favorite frostings and sprinkles
• Make and decorate 4 cupcakes
• Chocolate, vanilla, red velvet and cinnamon sugar

• Girl Gourmet Deluxe Chocolate Cupcake Refills
• Girl Gourmet Deluxe Red Velvet Cupcake Refills
• Girl Gourmet Cupcake Pan/ Carrier Holder 4 Count
• Girl Gourmet Ice Cream Sandwich Maker Refill Pack Brownie
• Girl Gourmet Ice Cream Sandwich Maker Refill Pack Cookie Dough

Gourmet girls can create their own trendy cakes with this bakes-in-30-seconds maker. The set comes with everything you'll need to whip up four batches of cupcakes. Includes: cupcake maker, froster, microwave container with cupcake holder, four mixes, four frostings, four cupcake cups, sprinkles, bowl, measuring spoon, spatula, recipe cards and instruction sheet.

Allergy Warning: Contains milk, egg and soy Ingredients. Mixes are processed in a facility that also processes wheat ingredients.
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.

The Girl Gourmet Cupcake Make provides kids with a fun, easy, no-hassle introduction to baking. View larger.

What We Think Fun Factor: Durability: (what this means) The Good: Easy-to-use cupcake mixes bake in seconds; easy-to-follow directions make for easy mixing, baking, and decorating; cupcake mixes are gluten free. The Bad: Cupcake froster turns out less-than-perfect results; cupcakes' taste aren't quite "mom's home-made" quality. In a Nutshell: Cupcake baking and decorating kids provides a fun, simple, quickly executed introduction to baking; inspires and encourages creativity. At a Glance Ages: 8 and up Requires: Microwave oven; adult supervision

Getting Started
The Cupcake Maker comes with four special cupcake mixes and frosting that are custom designed for use with this toy. The cake flavors include red velvet, chocolate, yellow, and cinnamon sugar; the frostings are chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, and cream cheese flavored. These easy-to-use mixes, which contain no wheat ingredients--a definite plus for the gluten-free crowd--and require only water as an added ingredient. (Allergy alert: the mix does contain powdered eggs and powdered milk.)

The toy comes with everything your child needs to mix, bake, and decorate the cupcakes: a tiny mixing bowl, measuring spoon, water dropper, and miniature spatula for mixing the batter and frosting; a microwaveable container for baking the cupcakes; and a cupcake frosting gadget with a shape reminiscent of a KitchenAid standing mixer. And everything your little chef needs to get started is packaged in chic, girl-pleasing, contemporary pastels.

Mix It Up
Simply mix the cake mix with water using the provided measuring spoons and water dropper to reach the desired consistency (we found that a pudding-like consistency gives the best results), pour the batter into the cupcake paper, and put it in the plastic "baking dish," bake it in the microwave for about 30 seconds, and--voila!--out comes a completely baked cupcake. Because the cupcakes get pretty hot, an adult should handle them until they're cool enough to handle.

In the meantime, the frosting can be mixed up in the same manner. Again, it took us a few tries to get the proper consistency: it's especially important for the frosting to be, as suggested, the consistency of firm cookie dough to work properly with the cupcake froster.

Time to Decorate
The cupcake froster comes with a frosting tube with a plunger and decorator-type tip. Scoop the frosting into the tube with the miniature spatula and place it in the machine. (This step can prove almost impossible if the frosting is too runny.) Place the cooled cupcake below and push down the lever. The frosting machine simultaneously spins the cupcake and pushes out the frosting to create a spiral shape. Kids can put the finishing touches on with the included sprinkles or, as the "shortcut" cards suggest, with cut-up fruit or candy (you'll want to stock up on these beforehand). The finished cupcake is smaller than a regular cupcake and a bit larger than your standard mini cupcake.

The Taste Test
The quick-and-easy baking and frosting mixes make for a fun and simple introduction to baking, especially for kids who haven't already started growing their "kitchen legs." Kid-sized cooking utensils makes it fun for kids to use, and are much easier to use than Mom and Dad's larger and heavier utensils.

The cupcakes themselves cook quickly in the microwave, making for a fast turnaround that won't try younger kids' patience; but they also, to be honest, don't quite have the taste as the home-made cup cakes that mom or grandma makes. But admittedly, this opinion is formed by an adult palate. For the kids that cook the cupcakes, they will be flavored with the sweetness of do-it-yourself pride.

Adults will need to make sure, however, that the kids don't start out with aspirations to the Martha Stewart-like decorating job pictured on the box: after multiple tests, we found that the cupcake froster simply does not turn out perfectly dainty frosting spirals. This might prove disappointing, so kids should be prepared to expect more realistic, charmingly handmade results. And your kids will be sure to have a lot more fun and confidence with their own creative decorating jobs.

Add water to cake mix with the provided spoons and water dropper.

Pour the batter in the dish, microwave, and--voila!--a cupcake!

Place the cooled cupcake below and start frosting.

Keep it coming ... you can never have too much frosting!

Cover the cupcake with sprinkles and its ready to eat!

What's In the Box
Cupcake Froster, 4 cupcake mixes; 4 frosting mixes; two-sided measuring spoon; spatula; water dropper; mixing bowl; 4 cupcake papers; 4 "shortcut" cards; microwave baker; cupcake cup; sprinkles and sprinkle container.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Relax people...It's a TOY!!!
Comment: Okay, so the icing machine takes some finess & practice...so what?! My daughter & I have FUN together and end up with a little cute tasty treat (really, they taste pretty good - especially the cinnamon one.) If you follow the instructions on the batter (make into pudding consistency)and the icing (firmish dough) they come out great. Before we started I told my daughter that they won't come out looking like the ones on the box (to lower her expectations.) We like that you don't have to sit around & wait for it to cook for forever. Think of it as a craft activity. Smile & take a chill pill. If you expect bakery quality cupcakes, you need to get real and remember it is a toy. If I was a little girl I would have loved this set!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: dog doo cupcakes
Comment: I am so sick of false advertising. The commercial showed a very pretty swirl of frosting on top of a nice looking cupcake. I don't expect the product to be perfect but we made the frosting according to directions, a firm cookie dough consistency. It came out looking like a pile of dog poo three times. We used refrigerated can frosting and got the same results. Lots of laughs. Won't be buying refills. Might try using store cupcake mix in baker though.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Beyond Disappointed!
Comment: This product should be discontinued it is so bad. I read the reviews and was hesitant to have my sister-in-law buy it as a gift for my 5 year old daughter. She insisted that she wanted it so she got it! The cupcakes overflow when baking for the proper amount of time and then the so called icing machine throws icing everywhere but onto the cup cake! When you press the lever it spins the cupcake so fast that the icing flew all over us and the counter. Very little went onto the cup cake. It was a JOKE!! I wish I could get a refund for it. What a disappointment!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Cupcake Disaster
Comment: I recently purchased the Deluxe Cupcake Maker set for our daughter's birthday. We tried it this morning and to put it nicely it was HORRIBLE! Each cake mix requires a different measurement of water. After, microwaving it for 30 seconds it comes out with tiny little air bubbles and like a fallen cake. I know my way around the kitchen and it was trouble-some for me. The instructions are very vague and give no direction to how to differentiate between the batter. The yellow cake batter was the worst as no matter how I tried to manipulate the water amount it never worked. There were inconsistence amounts of batter versus frosting. There was one cinnamon, 12 red velvet etc...

This was not a fun thing to do and I was hoping that it was going to top the EASY BAKE OVEN!!!



Please advise if there is a trick to the cupcake making process as well as the frosting as it too had to be manipulated to even some what work!!!



OH and the dropper.... what is that!!! Personally using proper measurement words would have been helpful

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Don't waste your money!
Comment: This cupcake maker turned the process of making a cupcake into a complicated mess, and the taste/smell was so bad that my kids didn't even want to eat them. We made two cupcakes and were so put off by the process, and end result, that we will never make another one. I really regret getting this for my kids. One other thing I was disturbed by was that there was no nutritional information on the packages. I have no idea what the ingredients were, which made me think twice before letting my kids eat them, but luckly they didn't even want to eat them. Save your money!

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