Hasbro Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven Baking Star Edition - Kids Baking Toy Set for Pretend Play & Real Treats - Perfect Birthday Gift for Aspiring Young Bakers

I really wanted to love it but it is hard.THE GOOD:It is relatively simple concept of tou and relatively easy to use so a child of 10 can do it with absolute minimum supervision limitedto just making sure that they wont' burn themselves so might need help taking baked goodies out but they will manageto do everything else completly and totally by themselves.It does actually bake actually real eadable food.THE BAD:it is somewhat primitive, If you think something opens there like a door.. think again. It is actually a non operable piece of plastic.You use that long blue spatula to push the tray on the what you see in the picture looks like left handle of the oven whcih actuallyis not handle but a slot for a small tray with baked goods.. and you then use the same blue stick spatula to push the tray outthrough the left hole so it comes out through the what looks like right handle.it is so primitive and so bad that it really is sad. I wish it could open and just function like a normal microwave or oven type of thingsince we are here to teach our kids to use real appliances right? Why a child can not open a box? beyond me.Please redesign this thing/ If there is a time concern make a real timer build in so the door won't open during a baking time or something..there are some ways to do it right!THE UGLY.. : the mixes...So the oven does not come with much in terms of fun. If you are serious about buying this to a child do not attempt to end thereas anything less then 6 or 8 boxes of mixes that you can use to bake stuff with will be hugely dissapointed to a child.One box of mix keep them busy for entire 15 minutes so if you got one box then after that much it is nothing but dissapointmentif they can not do it again and they will and want to bake another batch instantly.Boxes of the food to bake in it are sold separately and individually and you need to sit down for this: they average in price of 6.00 bucks.yes. Not the worse part.. worse part is.. imagine a regular size of chocolate chip cookie, now cut it in 8 pieces! and this is about howmuch baked goods you get from one mix.. yes, about a size of one cookie.So that is really deal sort of like with printers and ink.. it might not cost much but the mixes wiill eat you up.I like others will be looking for ways to do it cheaper. My little girl already tried to make her own mix of cookies andthey were just as good as from the mix. Furthermore I hear people experimenting with buying just cheap supermarketcake mixes and makign small batches of them and they work fine. I will try that.manufacturer should really give parents break and offer larger amounts of mix at reasonable price.Otherwise = the toy is cute, the kid has fun but a parents frustration with primitive design and the price of refilesis reason for three stars.My 4 year old asked Santa for this for Christmas and he got it for her! I was a bit surprised that this only comes with a tiny mix and small little cake pan. You have to purchase the cupcake pan separately and the little mixes are very expensive, however, you can make your own recipes from scratch and save a lot of money doing so. It makes my daughter happy so it must be doing its job, however, it looks cheap and little. I thought it would be so much more but it is after all, just a toy.Pros: My child is so excited when she gets to make something.It is very safe, I can't see how a child could get burned unless they pull out the pan and touch it. You do have so supervise a little bit.It is cute.Cons: Its on the larger end and the pan that goes inside is tiny! It must be about 4 by 5 inches and less than a cm thick so you really cant make more than about the size of a large cookie worth of food.The spatula did not fit in the door how it should have so I had to make it work another way, by using the thinner end instead of the scoop.Not much mix provided and no cupcake pan.I was reluctant to purchase this because of so many reviews stating that food mixes were not included and the fact that brand name food mixes are terribly expensive. This model "star edition" shows in the picture that it comes with three bags of food mixes and says on the box in the image that mixes are included. The one I received DOES NOT include them. The box I received specifically states on the front that no food mixes are included.The mixes are incredibly over priced. Not sure how the oven itself works, but feeling like it would have been better to just teach how to use the oven in the kitchen and purchase a really nice step stool...This does not come with anything other then oven and one tool.States products comes three packets of baking mixes nothing came with it box even state says no mixes and opened and found no mixes but it states for a little higher price you get the three mixes false advertisementThe product was described as coming with three cake mixes. I bought this as a gift for my niece. When it arrived to her home, we found out the mixes were missing. The seller went above and beyond to make it right. He not only offered a return, but he also offered me a credit in the amount of the mixes, so that I could buy them on my own. I highly recommend doing any business with this seller! Oh, and my niece loves the oven.My daughter was super excited to open her Christmas present and see the easy bake oven inside. The oven works great. Arrived in perfect condition. However it does not include any cake or brownie mixes as the description says, which was pretty disappointing. Thankfully I found easy to make recipes online so my daughter could enjoy using her gift right away.I did not like that the picture shows that it contains 3 mixes but when I received the oven there were no mixes inside. I contacted the seller but no response. This was a false advertisement to me. I wish I would have purchased this at Walmart where it was $10 cheaper without the mixes. At least I sold have known from the start what I was buying.