Jakks Pacific Girl Gourmet Cupcake Maker

My granddaughter likes this product very much and has successfully baked a few good cupcakes. I'm not sure about the durability of this toy, however, she takes care of her toys and this may be the reason. Hence, five stars.

I have to agree with all of the previous written reviews. This product is a very big disappointment. This was purchased for my seven year old daughter as a Christmas gift. I wish we would have read the reviews! First the cupcakes do not look like the ones on the box after baked. Trying to put the icing in a tube no bigger than one used for medicine is a treat! Although we "slowly" pressed the icing down in the tube, frosting went everywhere when it spins back after you are done. We only decorated one cupcake and that was enough to know that it would be much easier to teach my daughter how to decorate cupcakes with a store bought mix and a Wilton decorating kit! Really not worth the money or time for this product. It was a very big disappoint me to me and my daughter.

My 5 year old loves this toy but the frosting just makes us LOL. We keep trying to get it to come out right and have to keep eating our cupcakes even if they aren't as pretty as they look on the box. She's learing how to read the directions, experiment with recipes and have fun even if the toy isn't perfect.

This cupcake maker was one of the only things she asked Santa for this year so I got it for her. I wish I had read all of these reviews before totally wasting my money on this piece of junk! Icing EVERYWHERE and the cupcakes are AWFUL! For the amount of time and work I have to put into doing this with my daughter, I could have made a dozen cupcakes with a regular mix and they would have at least been edible. We have used it a few times and I hope to never use it again. I don't think I could even sell it at a garage sale in good faith!

Girl Gourmet Cupcake Maker...YUCK! My 5 yr old daughter was having a sleep over so with Christmas money we ran to TRU and purchased the cupcake maker ($24.99) and 2 additional packages ($7.99 each) of cupcake mixes. We have an ice cream maker, easy bake oven & slush maker - while they are all a pain from an adult stand point - all 3 of my kids (including my son) loved playing with them. So later that evening after pizza, the girls were sooo excited...we opened the package and checked everything out. I had reservations about the whole thing once I looked at it closely but they were so excited - clearly I should have went with my gut at that moment because once we started "nuking" the cakes my gut churned with disagreement! The cakes smelled awful! The other little girl wondered why they smelled so bad and declared that she was NOT eating any of them. We continued with the icing...what a pain & HUGE disappointment! Tasted horrible, was gritty and didn't work for crap (yes, I said it & i'm sticking to it!). All three girls (my 2 1/2 yr old was involved as well - and even she wouldn't touch them) walked away from the table - my daughter in tears stating that she should have bought a High School Musical wii game with her money. I'll buy her the game tomorrow! Poor thing! This was a complete waste of time, money & energy! I will be giving this away at this year's yard sale - hopefully I can find some sucker mom to take it off my hands!