Donut Delights (Yummy Nummies Review)

This is the first "Yummy Nummies" kit we've bought.  They do not require a child-sized oven, and when I found these on sale, I figured, "Why not?"  These miniature donuts were awfully cute!  They're about the diameter of a 50¢ piece.  They require no special equipment, just water and a microwave.  It doesn't get much easier than that!  :)  The donuts themself were pretty tasty (basically just white cake mix), but the icing was a bit bland.  The kid ate almost all of these, sharing one with Daddy and two with me.  If you're looking for something easy with minimal cleanup, I'd recommend these!  The entire kit makes about 12 mini donuts. 

Red Velvet & Strawberry Cakes (Brand Name Mix Review)

These little cake bars were really fun, but very time consuming.  This recipe would have taken half the time, had we purchased an additional baking pan.  I just ordered an extra pan, to keep on hand for future baking sessions!  Like usual, the only additional ingredient required is water (Yay!).  As with other Easy Bake mixes, the flavor is pretty much what you would expect - good, but nothing to write home about.  Honestly, I would have preferred the red velvet cake to not even be there, the strawberry was much sweeter!  The kid was a little disappointed in the number of heart sprinkles that came with the kit.  Some of them were broken (which she immediately gobbled up), and there were really only enough to put 1 heart onto each cake (even though the box had 3 on each cake).  She was a proper, little lady and shared with both Mommy and Daddy, but she ate most of them herself.  LOL



       

Easy-Bake Excitement

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Party Pretzel Dippers (Brand Name Mix Review)

We had so much fun making these little pretzels!  It was great to be able to experiment with different pretzel shapes.  The fact that these only need water, really makes them appealing.  The flavor was alright.  I was not overly impressed, but the kid devoured them!  The cheese sauce was a bit on the thick side.  The only thing that I was not happy with was that the package includes: 3 pretzel mixes, 1 egg wash mix, 1 salt packet, and 1 cheese sauce mix.  This means that you basically have to use all 3 pretzel mixes at once - otherwise, you won't have the egg wash, salt, or cheese when you want to make additional batches.  Overall, I thought these were really cute and fairly easy.

Lemon Tart

 

• 3 teaspoons granulated sugar
• 3 teaspoons brown sugar, packed
• 6 teaspoons butter or margarine, softened
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1/8 teaspoon baking soda
• 1/8 teaspoon cream of tartar
• pinch salt
• 2 tablespoons lemon curd
• powdered sugar,  for garnish
• lemon slice(s),  for garnish

 

1. Preheat child-sized oven for about 15-20 minutes.

2. Spray the baking pan with non-stick spray (I used butter flavored).

3. Cream sugars and butter together.

4. Add flour, baking soda, cream of tartar, and salt; mix thoroughly to form a dough.

5. Press dough into bottom of baking pan.

6. Bake for 15 minutes (for rectangle pan) ; cool for 5 minutes.

7. Very carefully remove crust from baking pan.

8. Spread with lemon curd.

9. If desired, garnish with powdered sugar and/or lemon slices.

 

 

Makes 1 rectangle tart (for the Ultimate oven) or 2 round tarts (for other versions).