We came across a cute kit on clearance at a local store, and daughter just HAD to have it, and as I figured the items could be used for future cooking and/or playdough projects, I agreed!The Hello Kitty Fortune Cookie Maker Set is aimed at the age 5 and up crowd and allows you to customize and create your own unique colorful and yummy fortune cookies with:
- 5 fondant mixes- in yellow and white
- small utensils: rolling pin, measuring spoon, cookie cutter, mixing bowl, rolling mat
- 2 sets of 5 special Hello Kitty fortunes
- 4 beautiful Hello Kitty gift boxes
Mixing the water using the spoon was ok, I ended up pulling out an iced tea spoon, as it worked better. The bowl is small, but it does hold 2 mixes ok. Daughter then turned the fondant out and began rolling it out!
Then onto cutting out the cookies using the cutter. the cutter was not sharp, yet cut the fondant easily and daughter had fun using it! The mat is great for rolling out dough. The next part was harder and required Mom's help. The fortunes come all on one piece of perforated paper and need to be torn apart. A little hard for small fingers! Putting in the fortune and sealing it in the 'cookie' was also a little hard for not quite 3 yr old fingers! The instructions were great though and we shaped them over the bowl with great results.
We only got about 5 decent sized cookies from the combined 2 mixes. We might have gotten another one if we had rolled the 'dough' thinner, but that would have made the cut cookie harder to handle. It took the 'cookies' about 2 hours to harden where they could be 'cracked' open so the fortune could be read. My daughter loved that part, as she does at a Chinese restaurant. Then came the eating part. And that is where the kit failed badly. Uniformly, everyone who tried them said "YUCK". Pretty bad tasting. But it was a great way to teach some cooking lessons, so it wasn't a total loss!Overall, I would rate this between a 3.5/4 out of 5 stars,
due to the taste factor and that the 5 mixes won't go very far at all!
But if you can get it on sale, it would be worth the fun and learning aspects of the kit!
