Melissa & Doug Bake and Decorate Cupcake Set
- Special wipe-off cupcake tops
- 4 dry erase markers in the shape of icing tubes
- Includes durable cardboard baking cups, decorative wooden candles and “flames”
- Also includes icing tops and an oven mitt
- Exceptional quality and value
Melissa & Doug Toys – Bake & Decorate Cupcake Set. Be sure your little chef uses the oven mitt to move these glorious wooden cupcakes in their wooden baking sheet! This amazing set has special wipe-off cupcake tops and 3 dry erase markers in the shape of icing tubes. With durable cardboard baking cups, decorative wooden candles and “flames”, here are the low-calorie cupcakes for the best birthday or tea party ever! Share hours of fun with your child! Order the Bake & Decorate Cupcake Set today, from Brookstone. Dimensions: 10.5″ x 13.25″ x 3.13″A hit at make-believe parties, the Melissa and Doug Bake and Decorate Cupcake Set encourages creative expression while teaching fine motor skills. Recommended for ages three and up, this set has everything a child needs to play pastry chef. Kids will enjoy hours of imaginative fun as they decorate the cupcakes with the included icing markers. And they’ll love how the cloth oven mitt, plastic muffin tray, and paper cupcake sleeves add a touch of authenticity to this charming play set.
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 Everything you need for make-believe baking. View larger. |
 Features charming wooden cupcake bottoms and colorful candles.View larger. |
 Decorate treats with marker “icing” and genuine cupcake sleeves. View larger. |
Cupcake Set Entertains and Teaches
For parents who want their children to enjoy imaginative playtime while learning useful skills, the Bake and Decorate Cupcake Set is an ideal choice. This adorable set is packed with educational opportunities, but children are likely to have too much fun playing baker to notice they’re learning.
The brown and yellow cupcake bottoms and pastel icing tops invite children to mix and match, creating their favorite combinations. For younger kids, this can help improve color recognition and counting skills, especially if a caregiver joins the fun and prompts discussions. For older children, it allows creativity to flourish, especially when they use the markers to draw polka dots and fun shapes on the icing tops.
The set also helps children develop hand-eye coordination. Little hands will love placing and removing the icing tops and candles. Children will also enjoy using the markers to garnish the cupcakes and gain fine motor skills that come in handy for schoolwork, sports, and other activities.
Classic Charm and Authenticity
Parents and children alike will be charmed by the Bake and Decorate Cupcake Set’s wooden components. The wooden cupcake bottoms are painted yellow and brown–vanilla and chocolate–and the colorful candles are each decorated with a barbershop-pole design and topped with a painted flame.
For authenticity, the plastic muffin tray is silver-toned, giving it the look of a metal baking tray. Paper cupcake liners fit in the tray, so children can feel like they’re really baking. Perhaps most realistic of all, a quilted oven mitt has a checkered red-and-white pattern and is child-sized to fit little hands.
For Independent or Group Play
The versatile Bake and Decorate Cupcake Set is suited for solo or small-group play. Children will enjoy throwing tea parties for their stuffed animals or bringing the set to show-and-tell and sharing the fun. Parents and caregivers can join in too, sitting alongside their junior bakers or placing special orders to give them a fun, rewarding task.
Easy to Clean and Store
When playtime is finished, the icing tops can be wiped with a dry cloth to remove the marker. If the designs don’t come completely off, try dampening the towel. Once everything is clean and dry, the cupcake tray makes it simple to tidy up the cupcakes–in fact, it’s so easy, little ones can be taught to put the pieces away all by themselves.
(Note: the Bake and Decorate Cupcake Set is not intended to be used with real food and is not dishwasher, oven, or microwave safe.)
About Melissa & Doug
Started in the garage at Doug’s parents’ house in 1988, Melissa & Doug has become one of the most popular toy makers in the world. Its toys have garnered dozens of awards and have been widely featured in national media.
Melissa & Doug toys meet all US consumer product safety regulations. The toys are tested at the factory of origin during various phases of the production process to ensure they meet the company’s stringent safety requirements. In particular, the paints and coatings on Melissa & Doug toys are tested frequently to meet or exceed government recommendations limiting heavy metals and lead in children’s items.
What’s in the Box
One Melissa & Doug Bake and Decorate Cupcake Set with four cupcakes, four icing tops, four candles, three cupcake icing markers, eight cupcake sleeves, oven mitt, and cupcake tray.
Melissa & Doug Bake and Decorate Cupcake Set
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Great toy, but it has a flaw…,
We have a lot of Melissa and Doug items and we’re always generally very impressed with them. The cupcake set is great fun and our six year old wanted it so much that she bought it with her own money. To start off with, it’s a high quality toy. They’re basically wooden cupcakes with candles that velcro on top. The whole concept of the icing markers is fun and all the kids (friends included) enjoy “decorating” the cupcakes. The part you draw on is a sort of plastic lid that fits over the wooden cupcake and is supposed to look like icing. It even comes with a little baking tin (wooden) and an oven mitt. There are paper cupcake liners in fun patterns included that aren’t going to last forever, but hey…they are paper. We’ve generally got liners in the pantry so that’s not a huge deal.
The big flaw in this toy is that the wooden cupcakes are not finished in a type of paint that will allow you to wipe the dry erase marker off of them. Only the plastic “icing” can be erased. Admittedly if you look at the very fine print on the back of the box it reads “Markers are intended for wipe-off icing surfaces only. Do not use markers on other components.” Realistically however, giving kids some dry erase markers and letting them go to town on pretend cupcakes, is going to result in the entire cupcake getting “decorated.” In the scheme of things it doesn’t really matter because my daughter loves them anyway, but it does keep me from giving this toy Melissa and Doug’s usual high approval rating. If this is something that is going to upset you or your child, you’d be better off buying another of their products.
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|Great Toy, but be warned, markers are permanent,
My daughter received this gift for her 3rd birthday party and LOVES it. The only problem, there’s no warning on the box that states the markers will ruin clothing. A little bit of the marker got on her handmade birthday dress and does not come out, so now the dress is ruined. I have now purchased a set of washable markers and they work like a charm. Yes, they get a little bit more on her hands, but just run the plastic frosting under water and it’s all cleaned. No more need for paper towels and the “icing markers” are now put away for good. But, I do love the concept of this toy, the markers need some improving though.
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|another great Melissa and doug toy!,
We are very big fans of Melissa and Doug toys so when this new cupcake set came out we were anxious to play with it.
It’s another quality wood toy like all of their other play food toys (cookies, cake, pizza, cutting box). My hesitation on not giving it 5 stars would be the cupcake liners are very flimsy, pretty much what you would buy in a store to bake a cupcake. Those will not hold up to heavy play. I love the idea of the markers in “icing tubes” but once the ink runs dry on these you loose the play value of being able to decorate the tops with icing/markers. Also, with all M&D toys now there is no lid or keep tight storage container for all the pieces.
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