Pretend Play

With the Girl Gourmet Cake Bakery, kids can bake and decorate their own tasty creations without all the mess. The Cake Bakery helps teach children the basics of baking in their own home while allowing them to add their own creative touches with fondant shapes and gel decorators. Kids ages 8 and up simply need a microwave oven and some adult supervision to start having fun with baking.

One, Two, Three, Cake:

The Girl Gourmet Cake Bakery comes with a variety of cake mixes, fondants and decorative treats that make the possibilities of creative cakes numerous. The cake mix flavors include chocolate and vanilla, while the fondant flavors include chocolate, blue, yellow, and red -- all of these require only water added to mix and prepare. For those with allergies, the mixes do contain milk, egg, or soy ingredients.

The overall design of the Cake Bakery is a workstation for cakes -- easy to set up and complete with all you need to mix, bake, and decorate your cakes. It includes a Cake Bakery base, gel decorator, decorating wheel, microwave dish and lid, mixing bowl and cake mold, measuring spoon, tray, spatula, utensil holder, work mat, rolling pin, cartridge cleaning brush, two gel cartridges, and four fondant cutters.

Baking cakes is easy. Simply follow the included instructions, add water to the mix, pour the batter into the cake mold, and put it in a microwave. (Children should wear baking mitts and have a supervising adult nearby at all times.) You now have perfectly baked Cake Bakery cakes.

Cakes with Creativity:

Fondant can be mixed just like the cake batter. When thoroughly mixed, it's time for the creative step in the process -- decoration! Kids will enjoy rolling the fondant on the work mat with the rolling pin. Any of the four fondant flavors and colors can be combined to create new colors, and kids can cut ornamental shapes out of the fond