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Play chefs. Pretend you're a top pastry chef. A top chef. These are some of the most traditional and fun presents.

In a time of hit shows such as Cake Boss, Top Chef: Just Desserts, Cupcake Wars and The Ace of Cakes, pastry chefs are getting more respect and publicity these days. These toys will be played with long after the holidays.

Do you have a little baker at home? Someone who's interested in making deserts? Here's a way to get started, with creative, imaginative toy food. This is adult role playing, pretend play which helps develop fine motor skills. What will we be when we grow up?

Pretend play like this is active play and at the same time stimulates the mind. And above all, it's fun! You'll also find tips for making your own play food. How does playing kitchen benefit your kids? Make a chef's hat out of paper! It's a learning toy and a creative toy in one.

For Halloween, we've included some special dress up costumes: cupcake, ice cream sundae, pizza and even a waffle cone baby bunting! So cute! These will stay out all year for play.

These are the classic pretend food, play food toys. Pretend food. Desserts. Toy Food and beautiful kitchens, elaborate to basic are on another page.

Wooden Honeybake Baking Set

♥ Cupcakes ♥

Bake & Decorate Cupcake Set

Melissa and Doug : Bake & Decorate Cupcake Set

Be sure your little baker uses the oven mitt to remove these 4 delectable-looking wooden cupcakes from their cupcake baking tray.

This special set has 3 dry erase markers shaped like icing tubes to decorate the smooth, removable, wipe-off cupcake tops.

Award Winning Toy!

With colorful baking cupcake sleeves and decorative wooden candles, these low-cal cupcakes will be the hit of birthday and tea parties!

ASTRA Winner 2010 Best Toys for Kids!, FunFare Magazine 2010 All Stars Award

Dimensions: 10.5" x 13.25" x 3.13" Packaged

Recommended Ages: 3+ years

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Melissa and Doug : Icing Refill Markers Icing Refill Markers This refill set specially designed for the Bake & Decorate Cupcake Set

Sand Cupcake Set : Beach : Sandbox : Cookies, Ice Cream

Seaside Sidekicks : Vacation Toys

Melissa and Doug : Seaside Sidekicks Sand Cupcake Set

12-piece set to make cupcakes at the beach or in the sandbox!

Fill the unique hinged cupcake molder with sand "dough," then add cupcake toppers, put in tray and "bake"

You can even use the icing tool to add more designs!

Included mesh bag for bringing to and from your destinations and for storage

Dimensions: 15" x 9" x 3.25" Assembled

Recommended Ages: 3+ years

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Melissa and Doug Seaside Sidekicks Sand Cookie Set


Melissa and Doug : Speck Seahorse Sand Ice Cream Set
Enjoy "cool" fun in the sun, every time you fill an ice cream cone with your choice of seahorse-shaped scoops for "hard" or "soft serve" and top off with your shell-topped "sprinkle" shaker. Everything stores in a convenient bucket with a lid that doubles as a sand mold!

Felt Dessert Toys

Haba Soft Petit Fours Set of 9 Dessert Toys
* Set of 9 scrumptious realistic looking Petit Fours
* Each play dessert measures 11/2 inch wide
* Each dessert is beautifully crafted and designed for a realistic
* Suitable for ages 3 yrs

Cupcake Stand Set

Pretty Pink Cupcake Stand Set

Comes with 8 little cupcakes with mix and match tops and bottoms so that she can create the cupcake combination of her choice.

* Two-tier cupcake stand
* 8 pretend cupcakes - mix and match the tops and bottoms to make your own color combinations
* 7.38"L x 7.38"H x 9"H
* MDF

She will love this sweet little cupcake set.

How to Make Pretend Food

Consider giving your used food containers new life as play food items for your kids instead of throwing them in with the recycling.

Washed out plastic and glass containers and clean empty boxes, particularly small ones, make swell items to stock your kids' play pantry.

They can fill the containers with pretend food, play cereal maybe, that may be poured into bowls. Little Lego bits or marbles? Buttons? It depends on your child's age and the appropriateness of the items.

Play kitchen chef in the sandbox, where a sandcake will stay together like it should!

Making fake food? Toys they already have can serve as food. Plastic stacking rings make great play doughnuts or bagels. Wedge-shaped blocks may be pieces of pie. Create play chopsticks.

Consider making an art project of creating new labels for the boxes and jars. Use the computer or, better still, get out paper, markers and art supplies. Aunt Mary's Meticulous Mysterious Mustard.

Make a paper chef's hat!

Children learn by cooking : Sounds yummy

What can helping with the growing, cooking, preparing and serving food teach your children?

There are many math and science skills that can be learned, especially by the growing and baking of the foods. Chemical reactions are happening when seeds are growing, when cakes are baking, when dough is rising.

Fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination are being developed as are social skills and self esteem. These are being honed without your child's even realizing it.

Learn fractions, the concept of volume. How much is 1/4, 1/2?

Colors and shapes. Basic knowledge of food and where it comes from is essential for kids these days. Why eat this instead of that? Why care what you're eating, be involved in choosing and preparing what you're eating? Get kids active and again.

Safety skills are important to know and follow in the kitchen.

What is your family history? The history of your country? Your neighborhood? You can learn a lot from different foods. Learn about other cultures. Do you have a globe? Cook meals from different regions.

Cooking with mom and dad, siblings? Enough of family members all in rooms of their own! Nice to be working together, spending time working on a single delicious goal and having fun.

There are many great resources online showing the benefits about getting kids, particularly urban children, into gardening. Community gardening, placing a garden where you'd never expect one to spring up, is beneficial socially, nutritionally and economically.

Will you play restaurant or grocery store? The kids will get to learn how to count and handle money. How do you make change? How do you make a budget?

Learn different tastes. Try it, you might like it!

Smart Snacks Sorting Shapes Play Food Cupcakes

by Learning Resources

Smart Snacks Sorting Shapes Cupcakes

Honors Award Winner - National Parenting Publications Awards for Children's Resources (NAPPA-2003), Toy Tips Top Rated Toy 2003

These delicious looking cupcakes can be pulled apart to reveal their shape sorting secret!

This cupcakes play food set features six 2-piece cupcakes with hidden square, triangle, clover, half-moon, circle and star.

Children will have great fun matching the cupcake pieces together. They can pretend that's part of the cupcake making process and then "serve" them to family and friends!

Includes a sorting pan with a different shape in each place, inviting children to match each cupcake to its place before "baking" as well!

Encourages imaginative play as children pretend to bake and share cupcakes.

A versatile learning toy that will be enjoyed for many years.

Educational Value: Develops fine motor skills, shape recognition, and matching skills as children fit cupcakes pieces together. Encourages imaginative play.

Learning Resources

Size: Cupcakes: 2.5" in diameter x 2.25"H

For Ages: 2 years and up

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Egg & Shape Sorter
Combine sorting and matching skills with pretend play with this "eggs-cellent" set of eggs in a cute, carry-along carton! Correctly match shapes to make two halves of an egg form a whole. Age 18 months and up.

Felt Food Patterns

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♥ Cake, Birthday ♥

Birthday Party Play Food

Birthday Party Play Food

Every day's a celebration, with our festive birthday party!

Thirty-four pieces in this wooden set include six ready-to-cut slices of cake, removable candles and toppings, sturdy serving tray and a spatula that store neatly in a wooden box.

Cake makes slicing sounds when cut!

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Birthday Cake Set : Pink and Purple

KidKraft

Birthday Cake Set

Every day is a party with the Birthday Cake Set.

Its 22 colorful and fun to assemble pieces include a serving tray, a serving knife, four slices of cake and four candles.

Allow kids to pretend it is their birthday year around.

signed with sprinkles, whipped cream and a cherry on top. Suitable for ages 3 yrs.

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Have a Pretend Birthday Party!

Having a Pretend Birthday Party can be a lot of fun! Kids can do this by themselves or get help from mom and dad, babysitters, etc.

Do you want to make invitations and decorations? Make party hats? How will you set the table?

You may even make the pretend birthday cake!

Are you going to play games? Will you dress up for the party? I remember when I worked in day care, the kids used to invite dolls to be guests at the table. Sometimes it was a baby doll's first birthday. :-)

This is a great idea for rainy days or days when you're snowed in, but also for sunny days as you can have your party outdoors at the picnic table or anywhere you want. It's your party!

Make a Party Hat! Crayola Crayons site

Tiered Special Occasion Cake


Melissa and Doug Triple-Layer Party Cake - Wooden Play Food


This fabulous cake can be topped with a bride and groom for a formal pretend wedding or with a flower bouquet to celebrate any special event.

All the wooden layers, a selection of toppings, a server and decorative cake plate included in the "bakery" box.

Dimensions: 6.25" x 10.25" x 8" Packaged

Recommended Ages: 3+ years

Wooden Happy Birthday cake toy with platter Knife Fork and cake slice

Wooden Happy Birthday cake toy with platter Knife Fork and cake slice

Includes cake platter, knife, fork and cake slice.

Wooden Happy Birthday cake toy with platter Knife Fork and cake slice

Brightly colored wooden toy

Great fun for parties and birthdays

23 x 23 cm

Giftwrap available at checkout

Great fun wooden big cream Happy Birthday cake.

Lots of pieces like strawberries, pears, grapes as well as candles make this cake a challenge for children's hands.

Includes cake platter, knife, fork and cake slice.

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Pastel Wooden Baking Set

Detailed wooden 8-piece set

Pastel Wooden Baking Set

For the petite pastry chef, this new Baking Set is a recipe for creativity and fun. Crafted from solid-wood, the set includes all the necessary kid-sized utensils and equipment for baking.

# Mixers lift in and out of mixing bowl
# Rolling pin, Measuring spoon
# Cooking pan
# 2 chocolate chip cookies
# Rolling pan rolls back and forth
# Finished in natural wood with pastel accents
# 3-8 years
# Size: 5"L x 5.75" W x 6.5"H (mixer)

Also Available:
Wooden Baking Set - Primary Colors

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♥ Cookies ♥

Slice and Bake Cookie Set

Slice and Bake Cookie Set

This colorful wooden set includes 12 wooden, sliceable cookies and 12 toppings, wooden knife, spatula, cookie sheet and a kitchen mitt for safe, "low-calorie" play!

The cookies store in a durable dough tube.

Dimensions: 10.5" x 13.5" x 3.25" Packaged

Recommended Ages: 3+ years

Also Available:
Wooden Doughnuts
Young chefs will love changing the toppings on the wooden doughnuts to make Doughnut specials every day!

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Felt Chocolate Chip Cookies : Felt Food


Chocolate Chip Cookie Set


3" wool felt cookies

This set features six chocolate chip cookies with a working mini rolling pin! Perfect for tea time, play or decoration!

Each set is wrapped in it's own bakery box - that smells like cookies - and is finished off with a big pink ribbon!

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Ninja Bread Cookie Cutters : Ninjabread : Bitten : Bake Cookies with Mom and Dad

Bake & Decorate Frost Bitten Cookies

NinjaBread Men Cookie Cutter Set

Limited Supply
5 Star Customer Rating
Innovative design

The 3 different cutters are in classic ninja attack poses.

Baked they are extremely funny and lend themselves to imaginative decoration possibilities.

There's even a gingerbread cookie recipe on the back of the box!

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Bitten : Fred ABC Cookie Cutter

Design: Liz Goulet Dubois

Visited by a vampire??

Frost Bitten cookies!

Set of 3 cookie cutters ABC = Already Been Chewed

Each measures approx. 2.5" W x 3.5" L

Made of luxurious cast aluminum with no seams or sharp edges

Gingerbread recipe included

Packaged in a cute, clear gift box

♥ Mixers, Bowls, etc. ♥

Cardboard Ice Cream Truck : Build a Dream Playhouses Imagine Wagon

Build a Dream Playhouses Imagine Wagon

Spacious interior

52 x 26.5 x 34 inches

Rear entry double doors

Fold down dashboard

Side view cardboard mirrors

Includes luggage rack, ice cream signs and light bar

Cruise around your block selling tasty treats or take your friends camping around the world. It's time you take a vacation with your imagination!

Chef's Quality Aluminum Cookware - 15 Pieces

Chef's Quality Aluminum Cookware - 15 Pieces

Chef's Quality Aluminum Cookware - 15 Pieces


This heavy aluminum set is smartly designed to look like the stainless steel pans we use at home. Combine incredible quality and realistic fun in one amazing set! Pieces include: 4 pots, 1 pan, 3 lids, 1 strainer and 6 utensils.

Chef Set Specifics:
Largest Pot: 3-1/2"H x 5-1/2"W (with handles, without lid)
Medium Pot: 2-1/2"H x 4-1/2"W
Smallest Pot: 2"H x 5-1/2"W
Strainer: 4"W 1-1/2"H
Saucepan: 1-1/2"H x 3-1/2"W (handle adds 3-1/2")
Frying Pan: 3/4 "H x 4"W (handle adds 3-3/4")
Ladle w/Spout: 4-1/2"L
Whisk: 5"L
Bent Spatula: 4-3/4"L
Spatula: 5"L
Ladle: 5"L

Rosalie Pot Holder by Haba

Rosalie Pot Holder by Haba
Pot holders designed for moms little helper. Shaped like a leaf and flower. Teach kitchen safety. Pretty.

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Rachael Ray from Furi 4-pc. Yum-o! Young Cooks Cutting Accessories Set

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Rachael Ray from Furi 4-pc. Yum-o! Young Cooks Cutting Accessories Set


Rachael Ray from Furi 4-pc. Yum-o! Young Cooks Cutting Accessories Set


A portion of the proceeds from this item will be donated to Yum-o! to empower kids and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking.

This set includes the Kid's Soft-Grip Kitchen Scissors, Red Plastic Cutting Board, Green Plastic Cutting Board, and a Non-Slip Board Mat.

The Kid's Soft-Grip Kitchen Scissors were designed for smaller hands to encourage young cooks in the kitchen.

The Plastic Color-coded Cutting Boards green for vegetables and red for meats, are much easier to wash off and get thoroughly clean than wood.

A portion of the proceeds from your purchase of this item will support Rachael Ray's Yum-o!® organization. Launched in 2006 by Rachael Ray, Yum-o!® is a nonprofit organization that empowers kids and their families to develop healthy relationships with food and cooking by teaching families to cook, feeding hungry kids and funding cooking education and scholarships.

Through our three core work areas of Cook, Feed and Fund, Yum-o! educates kids and their families about food and cooking by offering an interactive website that enables young cooks to get started in the kitchen and try out family-friendly recipes.



Wu and Wu - Baking Kit

Wu and Wu - Baking Kit

Bake with joy! Wu & Wu's Dumpling Dynasty Baking Kit is a rainy-day treat for those little emperors and empresses, raise the wooden spoon to Wu & Wu's inspirational new baking kit.

Each kit comes complete with set of celebration candles, rolling pin, wooden spoon, three metal star cookie cutters, cupcake cases and recipes for iced-star cookies and fancy cupcakes.

The tin measures approximately 7.5" w x 5" h x 1.5" d.

Also Available:
Junior Chef Retro Bakeware Set by Schylling

Grandma's Little Baker Suitcase

by Child to Cherish

Grandma's Little Baker Christmas Suitcase by Child to Cherish

A wonderful Christmas Gift for Grandma's Little Baker!

Children love to bake with Grandma and this adorable suitcase is filled with cooking supplies to get started right now!

Includes:
High Quality Child to Cherish Apron, Solid Wood Spoon, Wooden Rolling Pin, 3 Cookie Cutters and 5 Recipes!

The Food Grade tin suitcase makes it great for storing treats to bring home too!

Educational Value: Baking requires the use of many skills including math & counting, sensory skills, teamwork, following instructions, using proper kitchen tools, and expanding vocabulary.

Manufacturer: Child to Cherish Gifts

For Ages: 3 years and up

Also Available:
Little Baker Christmas Suitcase by Child to Cherish

Cookie Exchange : Christmas Baking Cookie, Cake & Cupcake Supplies

Choose from a variety of holiday items

Run Run Reindeer Lil Christmas Baker : Making Christmas Goodies

Personalize

Run Run Reindeer Lil Christmas Baker

This adorable chef hat and apron would make a perfect gift for your little holiday chef or baker. It comes personalized with a child's name and wrapped in a beautiful gift box.

Pretend baking on a new Christmas kitchen set?? Maybe with new kitchen themed toys. How cute would this be for Christmas morning photos or so fun for getting ready for the holidays alongside Mom and Dad?!

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Joy Of The Season Gourmet Gift Basket

Adorable red tin is filled with wonderful treats such as Snickerdoodle Cocoa and Cookie Mix. What Fun! Our adorable snow man wall accent is sure to bring a smile to all who receive it. This gift comes wrapped with matching ribbons.

Features:

Snickerdoodle cookie mix
Jelly Belly Bag
Mrs. Beasley's Gourmet Peppermint Candies
Thimble Cookies
Chocolate Chip Tea Cake
Angelina's Butter Cookies
Torn Ranch Chocolate Cherry Bar
Ghirardelli Double Chocolate Coffee
Cheese Spread
Keepsake Container

♥ Chef Uniforms and Aprons, Cupcake Costumes ♥

Baby Chef Three Piece Layette in Culinary Theme

Culinary Themed Baby Chef Three Piece Layette

Baby Chef Layette baby gift set!

# Tasteful, three-piece baby chef layette set includes white chef's hat, white chef's coat with secure snap closure and black-and-white checkered pants
# A whisk is embroidered on the chef hat and the words "Baby Chef" are embroidered on the coat
# Made of machine-washable, 100% cotton
# Size 0-6 months

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Little Cook Chef's Jacket

Is Mom or Dad graduating from Culinary school?

Sassafras Little Cook Chef's Jacket


Sassafras Little Cook Chef's Jacket


Kids' Chef Jacket will make your kid feel like a pro! The Little Cook logo is on its sleeve. Fits sizes 6-8.



Baker's Apron : Child's Kitchen Apron : Personalize : Customize

Available in Adult Sizes, too

Personalized Chef Apron & Hat Set

Children's Chef Apron and Hat Set in Blue

It will be fun to make dinner with this adorable children's sized chef apron and hat set.

Kids love to help Mom and Dad in the kitchen and this cute set is a perfect gift. Personalize it for the young chef!

Apron measures approximately 18.25" long (without neck strap), 17.5" wide and ties measure 16" long on each side.

Also Available:
Children's Chef Apron and Hat Set in Light Pink

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Tom Arma Gingerbread Baby : Tom Arma Infant & Toddler Costumes

Gingerbread Cookie Costume : Cool for Shrek Group Costume

Tom Arma Gingerbread Baby


Tom Arma Gingerbread Baby


Tom Arma Signature Collection ™ Gingerbread Baby Simply scrumptious! Tom Arma's Gingerbread baby costume comes with a special treat, a matching Gingerbread toy that young ones will treasure!

Heirloom Quality Costume. Fully lined in tan baby soft fleece. Includes: Character headpiece with front Velcro closure, elaborate head design complete with white trim. Character bodysuit with back snap closure, in soft "cookie" brown fabric with white trim representing royal icing and finished with embroidery. Magical fold back openings for the hands.

Character booties with white trim. To keep your booties in picture perfect condition, Tom recommends that booties should be used for indoor use only or on sitting little ones in strollers. Matching Gingerbread toy included. More info on site.

Costume details may vary from photograph.

Tom Arma Costumes, Inc., a family owned and operated company, maintains excellence in quality by only producing a limited number of costumes each year Worldwide. Once a style is sold out we cannot reorder more during the Halloween season. They do sell out quickly, order yours today! See a Selection of Tom Arma Signature Costumes

-"the most published baby photographer in the world"... NY Times "The Armani of the Kiddy costume world" ... Wall Street Journal. **Toddler Sizes will be an additional $10.00 at time of checkout.



Cupcake Cutie Infant Costume

Infant Cupcake Costume / Toddler Cupcake Costume

Cupcake Cutie Infant Costume

Cupcake costume for babies makes an adorable dress for any birthday girl to wear to her party, too!

From the Too Cute To Spook collection, this infant Cupcake Cutie costume includes a pink and yellow cupcake dress, a white capelette to resemble frosting with colorful sprinkles and headband with frosting and cherry topping.

The pink part of the dress is covered in a shimmery layer of fabric and the yellow bottom is designed to look like a cupcake wrapper, complete with fold lines!

Cupcake Costume : Toddler, Child : Ice Cream Sundae Costume

Sweet Eats Cupcake Toddler Costume

Sweet Eats Cupcake Toddler Costume fun for a birthday party, bake sale, school costume parade, autumn harvest festival or trick-or-treating Halloween.

This decorated cupcake costume features a blue muffin cup, pink netting icing with multi-colored sugar sprinkles and a sparkly pink cherry hat with its green stem still attached.

Wear the Sweet Eats Cupcake Toddler Costume with your own plain black turtleneck and black pants to complete this sugary treat's look.

Shirt, pants and shoes are not included.

Child Size Cupcake & Ice Cream Sundae Costumes:
Sweet Eats Cupcake Child Costume

Ice Cream Sundae Child Costume

Give everyone a delicious surprise when you show up in this costume! This Ice Cream Sundae Child Costume includes a 1 piece foam costume that looks like a chocolate syrup covered vanilla ice cream cone and a cherry top hat.

Cupcake Fairy Toddler/Child Costume

Cupcake Fairy Toddler/Child Costume


Cupcake Fairy Toddler/Child Costume


Includes dress. Does not include shoes,tights,wings,headband or wand.




Cupcake Fairy Child Wings


Donut, Dessert Costumes DIY Ideas

Adult Donut Costume
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Make Flannel & Paper Cupcakes

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Waffle Ice Cream Cone Bunting Baby Costume

Boy or Girl

Waffle Ice Cream Cone Bunting Baby Costume

Now your little one can be a delightful treat!

This Waffle Ice Cream Cone Bunting Costume includes a flannel waffle cone shaped bunting with mint ice cream scoop top and fleece chocolate fudge "with a cherry on top" character hood.

Baby bunting features velcro closure at the back for easy diaper changing.

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Make & Serve Apple Pie Set

Make & Serve Apple Pie Set

Five star customer ratings

Presenting Apple Pie as easy as 1-2-3-4! With four easy steps, your little chef will be proud to assemble and present this All-American dessert sensation!

Place the bottom crust in the pie plate, fill with the apple slices, then put the top crust into place "bake" and serve - easy as pie!

The set comes with all the ingredients, an oven mitt, wooden knife, pie server and the pie plate.

Dimensions: 10.25" x 13" x 1.75" Packaged

Recommended Ages: 3+ years

How to make a paper cupcake/muffin presentation basket tutorial

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Will your youngster be making little cakes??

  • ladykida Dec 18, 2011 @ 8:54 pm | delete
    My niece will be, yay!
  • RecipePublishing Aug 21, 2011 @ 12:04 am | delete
    These are so cute.
  • blanckj May 15, 2011 @ 7:34 am | delete
    I am the Cookie Lady and my daughter loves to bake in the kitchen with me. I love all these cute play ideas. Thanks for sharing.

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